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Peter Doig, Concrete Cabin
 
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TITLE:  Concrete Cabin
ARTIST:  Peter Doig
WORK DATE:  1994
PERIOD:  20th century
CATEGORY:  Paintings
MATERIALS:  Oil on Canvas
SIZE:  h: 198 x w: 275 cm / h: 78 x w: 108.3 in
REGION:  Scottish
STYLE:  Contemporary
PRICE:  Not for Sale
GALLERY:  Saatchi Gallery  +44 (0)20 7811 3070  Send Email
DESCRIPTION:  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.

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