Peter
Doig
Concrete Cabin
1994, Oil on Canvas
198 x 275cm |
Doig’s
paintings of Le Corbusier’s classic modernist apartment
block offer a mysterious utopia: cosmopolitan dream architecture
nestled in (or imprisoned by) tangling wilderness. In Concrete
Cabin, it’s the nowhereness of the scene which
is strangely uncanny: the bright minimalist grid of the building
beaconing through the dark shadows of the trees; an everyday
glimpse from a suburban sidewalk twisted into something magical;
a set from a contemporary fable. Doig paints this scene with
chimerical effect; cropping the image to exclude ground or
sky, it has no physical orientation or weight, only the intangible
presence of a fleeting moment. |