Peter Doig

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Peter Doig (2010)

Peter Doig [ ˈdɔɪɡ ] (born April 17, 1959 in Edinburgh ) is a Scottish painter and is considered one of the most authoritative and internationally most influential figurative artists of the present.

Life

Peter Doig was born in 1959 in the capital of Scotland , where his ancestors have always lived. A year after his birth, his parents moved from Edinburgh to Trinidad in the Caribbean , where Doig spent early childhood years. In 1966 there was a move to Canada and in 1979 another to London - Doig's childhood was marked by these frequent moves. He never lived in the same house for more than three years and attended a total of nine different schools.

When Doig moved to London in 1979 , he was initially interested in studying to become a set designer . Nevertheless, he decided to go to the Wimbledon School of Art and train in painting . From 1980 to 1983 he studied at St Martin's School of Art through to his bachelor's degree . Figurative painting experienced a renewed upswing in the 1980s, after the decade had been devoted to abstraction, video works, performances and other new forms of art. Despite the return of figurative painting, there was no opportunity for Doig. to exhibit his early work in a gallery. His inspirations included artists from almost all epochs of western art history: from Goya , Courbet , Picasso and Max Beckman to the young German and Italian neo-expressionists such as Georg Baselitz , Sigmar Polke or Francesco Clemente . The latter were increasingly being shown in galleries in London at the time.

In 1986, Doig moved back to Montreal before returning to London three years later. Six years earlier, after graduating from St Martin's, Doig had turned down a one-year Masters scholarship at the Chelsea School of Art in London. In 1989, Doig applied to the art college and was able to successfully complete his Master of Arts in 1990 . During his studies in 1989, the artist temporarily worked as a dresser for the English National Opera .

Peter Doig was offered a residency in Trinidad in 2000. In 2002, he and his family, his wife and five children moved back to the Caribbean island he was already familiar with. He set up his studio at the Caribbean Contemporary Arts Center near Port of Spain, where he worked with his friend and artist colleague Chris Ofili . He also moved into a house in the nearby mountains so that he could work in peace.

Doig was on the artistic supervisory board of the Tate Gallery in London from 1995 to 2000 and as a professor of painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 2005 to 2017 .

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Peter Doig's work is known for the interweaving of an extensive archive of found and self-photographed images, techniques, moods, titles and themes from the history of music and art. They do not serve as a template, but again and again as triggers or informants that can be combined in new ways, used and experienced by the artist as diverse fields of inspiration and image generation techniques. They mean that photography, film, music and painting are always present in his work at the same time. His works often oscillate between personal memories and longings. Art critics have described how Doig's painting ends up in an imaginary and unique world of color based on the various references and memories. "This is imaginative art of the highest order," said American art critic Jonathan Jones.

Doig's figurative painting is one of the most influential artistic formulations of his generation today. Both his brisk exhibition activity and the art market and the record prices for his works achieved there reflect Doig's continued success. The various starting points on which Doig's paintings are based are based on the artist's experiences and everyday impressions. Doig's nomadic life has a great influence on his painting: "I never have a plan how the picture should be. Painting is always a journey," says the artist about his work process. The influence of his experiences is clearly evident in the Caribbean and Canadian landscapes in his large-format pictures - their exoticism on the one hand, their lonely wilderness on the other. The artist draws his motifs from these personal encounters in and with the landscape. However, he is not interested in "vedute-like images", even if individual motifs go back to actual landmarks, such as the prison island of Trinidad in 100 Years Ago (Carrera) . Certain references to the paintings of Edvard Munch , Paul Gauguin or Pierre Bonnard are also evident.

Although photographs or posters are often the basis of his pictures, his paintings are not in a photorealistic style. A film is rarely used as a starting point. Doig was so impressed by Sean Cunningham's horror film Friday 13th that the final dream sequence of the film - with a canoe in which a woman sits in flowing hair - has since become a central subject for the painter, which has inspired him to create numerous independent pictures. A canoe is featured in his early 1991 painting White Canoe , which fetched £ 7.7 million at auction in 2007. Peter Doig unexpectedly advanced to become the most expensive living artist on this planet, but only for a few days.

Doig often uses unusual color combinations and viewing angles and thus achieves a magically realistic effect. One of his trademarks is also his refusal to submit to an artistic mainstream ; his pictures are aesthetic, but also socially critical at the same time. In the paintings, the calm of which seems to be tipping over at any moment, memories, biographies, popular images and narrated actions congeal into dream-like sequences.

Since April 2003, Doig and his friend Che Lovelace have been organizing a small film festival for contemporary avant-garde films in his studio in Laventille . The StudioFilmClub shows films on a weekly basis that you have received from friends or that you bring yourself from trips. This takes place in the private setting of the studio, but with the openness of a club event, where there is space for conversations, bar operations or even a concert as the beginning, break or end of a joint film evening. Their program spans classic films as well as independent, music and artist films as well as current Hollywood productions. For these events, the artist paints posters that are hung up on the grounds of the cultural center as an announcement. "These paintings are signposts and information tools, but also typical works by Peter Doig, in which the cinematic characteristic of his work, in particular the quality of the evocation of the viewer's imagination, is doubled and increased through the reference to a specific film", as the introduction to the exhibition StudioFilmClub 2005 in the Kunsthalle Zürich describes. Those spontaneous posters then seem to be torn out of his hands by the gallery owners in Europe in order to then fetch top prices at auctions.

Peter Doig is considered one of the most highly paid living artists of our time. His works have achieved prices of up to US $ 26 million so far. In 2007, the art magazine Monopol named him the eighth most important living artist in the world.

Litigation (2016)

In 2016 he found himself in what was described as "bizarre" legal battle for denying the authorship of a painting attributed to him and therefore being sued by an art dealer and a former prison guard for $ 7.9 million in damages. The former guard claimed that Doig, then unknown, sold him the painting in 1976 in Thunder Bay , where he was imprisoned at the time. The owner wanted to sell the supposed picture of the now famous painter, who is traded as "the new Bacon or Freud ", for a high profit. The acrylic painting has the signature "Peter Doig 76" and depicts a desert landscape. During the trial, Doig was able to prove that he had never served a prison sentence in Thunder Bay and that he did not paint any of his more than 500 paintings with acrylic paint. The responsible judge ruled after seven days of trial on August 23, 2016 in Chicago : "Peter Doig cannot have been the author of this work." Similarities between the picture and paintings by Doig are "pure coincidence". The painter of the painting is in reality the now deceased Canadian amateur painter Peter Doige. His sister confirmed his authorship in the process.

Exhibitions

  • Metropolitan Gallery, London, 1984
  • The Naked City , Air Gallery, London, 1986
  • Articule , Montreal, Quebec, 1990
  • Whitechapel Artist Award , Whitechapel Gallery, London, 1991
  • Concrete Cabins , Victoria Miro Gallery, London; Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, 1994
  • Blotter , Contemporary Fine Art, Berlin, 1995
  • Freestyle , Victoria Miro Gallery, London, 1996
  • Society for Contemporary Art, Bremen, 1996
  • Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, 1996
  • Homely , Society for Contemporary Art, Bremen, 1996
  • Blizzard Seventy Seven , Kunsthalle, Kiel; Kunsthalle, Nuremberg; Whitechapel Gallery, London 1998
  • Buffalo Station , Victoria Miro Gallery, London; Cabinet Gallery, London, 1998
  • Country-rock , Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, 1999
  • Version , Kunsthaus Glarus, 1999
  • Wing-mirror , Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, 1999
  • Echo Lake , Matrix, University of California, Berkeley; Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami; The Saint Louis Art Museum, 2000
  • Almost Grown , The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; The Power Plant Gallery, Toronto, 2000
  • Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, 2001
  • Vancouver National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 2001
  • Peter Doig. The Prints , The Bailey Collection, Toronto, 2002
  • 100 Years Ago , Victoria Miro Gallery, London, 2002
  • Peter Doig: Works on Paper , Michael Werner Gallery, New York, 2002
  • Peter Doig: Painter as Printmaker , James Hyman Fine Art, London, 2003
  • Peter Doig , The Arts Club of Chicago, 2003
  • Charley's Space , Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht; Carré D'Art Contemporain de Nimes, 2003
  • Peter Doig, Metropolitain , Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, 2004
  • Peter Doig , Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover, 2004
  • Peter Doig STUDIOFILMCLUB , Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Kunsthalle, Zurich, 2005
  • Peter Doig: Works on Paper , Dallas Museum of Art; Gallery at Windsor, Vero Beach; The Art Gallery of Ontario, 2005
  • Peter Doig: Go West Young Man , Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig, 2006
  • Peter Doig: Studio Film Club 2003-2006 , Ballroom Marfa, Texas, 2006
  • Peter Doig Retrospective , Tate Britain, London; Musee d'Art, Modernism de la Ville de Paris; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, 2008
  • Peter Doig: Not for Sale , Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, 2009
  • Peter Doig: New Paintings , Michael Werner Gallery in collaboration with Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, 2009
  • Peter Doig , Musée d'art Moderne, Paris, 2011
  • Siegfried + Poster Project , Gallery Met at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, 2011
  • Peter Doig: New Paintings , Michael Werner Gallery, London, 2012
  • No Foreign Lands , National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montreal, Montreal, 2013
  • Early Works , Michael Werner Gallery, New York, 2013
  • Early Works , Michael Werner Gallery, London, 2014
  • Peter Doig , Fondation Beyeler, Basel, 2014
  • Peter Doig , Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, 2015
  • Peter Doig , Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Palazzetto Tito, Venice, 2015
  • Peter Doig , Michael Werner Gallery, New York, 2015
  • Peter Doig: Cabins and Canoes , Faurschou Foundation, Beijing, 2017
  • Peter Doig: studiofilmclub , CAC, Málaga, 2017
  • Peter Doig , Michael Werner Gallery, New York, 2017
  • Peter Doig , Michael Werner Gallery, London, 2017

Public collections

Peter Doig's painting is represented in a variety of international museum collections, including paintings such as The House that Jacques Built (1992) in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art ; Boiler House (1994), in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ; and Ski Jacket (1994), at the Tate Modern in London. It is also represented in the British Museum in London, the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, the Southampton City Art Gallery, the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris, the Bonnefantenmuseum in Maastricht, as part of the Munich Goetz Collection, in the Nürnberger Kunsthalle , in the collection of the Fondation Beyeler in Basel, in the Museo Cantonale d'Arte in Lugano, in the Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo in Sintra, in the National Gallery of Canada , in the Art Institute of Chicago , in the Museum of Modern Art , New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York, as well as the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington or the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Dallas Museum of Art .

Awards

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt: Peter Doig . In: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt . October 9, 2008 ( schirn.de [accessed February 6, 2018]).
  2. a b Gerhard Mack, pictures from the realm of puzzles  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , art-magazin.de, pp. 32–43, 04/2002@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.art-magazin.de  
  3. PETER DOIG (B. 1959), inn. Retrieved February 6, 2018 .
  4. ^ Peter Doig - Go West Young Man - British Council Germany. September 27, 2011, accessed February 6, 2018 .
  5. ^ Calvin Tomkins: The Mythical Stories in Peter Doig's Paintings . In: The New Yorker . December 4, 2017, ISSN  0028-792X ( newyorker.com [accessed February 6, 2018]).
  6. ^ Peter Doig | Kunsthalle Zurich. Retrieved February 6, 2018 .
  7. Jonathan Jones: Peter Doig review - sun, sea and savagery in a troubled paradise ( en ) December 18, 2017.
  8. Bloomberg News: Peter Doig 'Canoe' Painting Gets $ 10 Million . In: The New York Times . February 8, 2007, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed February 6, 2018]).
  9. Konrad Tobler: The painter of the inexpressible . In: Basler Zeitung, Basler Zeitung . November 22, 2014, ISSN  1420-3006 ( bazonline.ch [accessed February 6, 2018]).
  10. ^ Peter Doig | 100 Years Ago (Carrera) (2001) | Artsy. Retrieved February 6, 2018 .
  11. Art Bulletin. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on February 6, 2018 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.kunstbulletin.ch  
  12. Konstanze Crüwell: Peter Doig in Edinburgh: The horror can no longer be more beautiful . In: FAZ.NET . September 28, 2013, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed February 6, 2018]).
  13. ^ Peter Doig | Kunsthalle Zurich. Retrieved February 6, 2018 .
  14. a b Georges Waser: Ungraceful verdict for desert scene in acrylic: acquittal for the contemporary artist Peter Doig . Neue Zürcher Zeitung , August 24, 2016.
  15. ^ Artist ranking: "Waaas, diiie as number one !?" 7th part: Peter Doig, eighth place . Spiegel Online , July 25, 2007, accessed August 24, 2016.
  16. a b Dushko Petrovich: Peter Doig Wins Bizarre Authentication Trial . artnet , August 23, 2016, accessed August 24, 2016.
  17. Stefan Koldehoff: Interview with Peter Doig in: Die Zeit 30/2016, July 14, 2016, p. 46. Cf. Peter Doig denies authorship: “This painting is not from me”. Die Zeit , pre-registration, July 13, 2016, archived from the original on July 16, 2016 ; accessed on August 24, 2016 .
  18. ↑ The picture is not from Peter Doig . dpa article in Monopol , August 24, 2016.
  19. Doig wins painting authenticity case . August 24, 2016 ( bbc.com [accessed April 11, 2019]).
  20. Artist Peter Doig wins case over painting he said was not his work. British Broadcasting Corporation , August 24, 2016, accessed August 24, 2016 .
  21. ^ Peter Doig | Kunsthalle Zurich ( en )
  22. ^ Peter Doig: Works On Paper | Dallas Museum of Art ( s )
  23. ^ Peter Doig | Windsor (en-US) . In: Windsor . 
  24. ^ Peter Doig | AGO Art Gallery of Ontario .
  25. Rudi Fuchs: Peter Diog: Go West Young Man . Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig, 2006, ISBN 139783865601919.
  26. Peter Doig: STUDIOFILMCLUB "Ballroom Marfa .
  27. Go See: Peter Doig Retrospective at the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, through January 4, 2009 (en-US) . 
  28. ^ Tate: Peter Doig - Exhibition at Tate Britain | Tate ( en-GB )
  29. Works | not for sale | CFA .
  30. ^ Michael Werner Gallery .
  31. ^ Metropolitan Opera | Gallery Met: Siegfried + Poster Project .
  32. ^ Michael Werner Gallery .
  33. ^ Alastair Sooke: Peter Doig: No Foreign Lands, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, review (en-GB) . August 12, 2013. 
  34. La programmation 2014 du Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal est dévoilée (PHOTOS) (fr-CA) . In: Huffington Post Québec , November 28, 2013. 
  35. ^ Michael Werner Gallery .
  36. ^ Michael Werner Gallery .
  37. Peter Doig at Fondation Beyeler, Basel • Mousse Magazine ( it-IT )
  38. Peter Doig . In: Louisiana . 
  39. Idea Futura srl ​​- www.ideafutura.com: Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa - Peter Doig ( en )
  40. ^ Michael Werner Gallery .
  41. ^ Peter Doig - Centro de arte contemporáneo de Málaga ( en )
  42. ^ Michael Werner Gallery .
  43. ^ Michael Werner Gallery .
  44. amfAR :: In The Spotlight :: Peter Doig :: The Foundation for AIDS Research :: HIV / AIDS Research. Retrieved February 6, 2018 .
  45. ^ Peter Doig: Art Icon - Event - Whitechapel Gallery . In: Whitechapel Gallery . ( whitechapelgallery.org [accessed February 6, 2018]).
  46. Contains: Armin Boehm, Miriam Cahn , Thomas Dillmann, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas , Johannes Hüppi , Michael Kunze , Daniel Richter , Norbert Schwontkowski , Luc Tuymans