Peter Doig, thirty paintings and a number of his graphic works on paper at Louisiana

“Peter Doig’s paintings are pictures you sink into. They show solitary canoes on acid-green lakes, figures in chilly snow landscapes, houses glimpsed behind networks of branches, murky reflections in still water, or other scenes of a kind that immediately reminds you of certain experiences you aren’t sure you ever had”.
(Art historian Helle Brøns on Peter Doig’s paintings in Louisiana Magasin no. 28, 2008).

Internationally the British artist Peter Doig (b. 1959 in Edinburgh) is considered one of the most fascinating painters of his time. At Louisiana he is greatly appreciated, and in 2008 this resulted in the acquisition of one of his large works, Music of the Future, 2002-2007, for the museum’s collection, with support from the Ministry of Culture and the Augustinus Foundation. It is therefore with great pleasure that the museum now has the opportunity to show a major exhibition of 30 of Doig’s most important oil paintings and a number of his graphic works on paper.

Doig is a versatile artist and a master of techniques from both past and present. His paintings – in large formats – show people and architecture in nameless, timeless landscapes and in strange, glowing colours. He bases his works on a private collection of visual material – photographs, clippings from magazines and record covers, film material and found objects that he incorporates in his paintings. They glow with figurative clarity, but they also glow so brightly that the emotional power of the colour overwhelms the narrative. Doig’s visual world is in every way magical.

Peter Doig grew up in Canada and Trinidad. Today he lives in Trinidad, London and New York. He feels close ties to the painting tradition, for example to Bonnard, Gauguin and Munch, and yet it is often a more or less random photo that become the starting point for his large, brightly coloured and often highly lyrical works. Peter Doig began painting at the start of the 1990s and was a member of the group Young British Artists, but soon he stood out from the other artists. He may be the painter of present-day life, but with forays back into the history of art he continues the tradition of the great masters.

The exhibition has been organized by Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in collaboration with Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel.

C.L. Davids Fond og Samling has granted support to the exhibition.

Peter Doig
17 April - 16 August 2015

Museum opening hours: Tuesday - Friday 11:00-22:00. Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays 11:00-18:00. 
Mondays closed.

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