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Article: Peter Doig at Gavin Brown's enterprise.
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- April 1, 2000
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For this recent exhibition, British painter Peter Doig showed four large oil paintings and a half-dozen smaller works, all dated 1999. The show confirmed that he is an unabashed landscape painter, regardless of his ostensible subject matter.
Doig surveys with equal interest a barren interior, an outdoor ball court, a large figure overlooking a snowy landscape and a highway scene featuring a traffic tunnel with a kitschy rainbow entrance. These are the somewhat unpromising subjects of the large canvases, each more than 6 by 8 feet. The screaming banality of the subjects contrasts with both the monumentality of the format and the engaging diversity of Doig's ...