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April 30 - June 3, 1998
Preview: April 29, 1998, 8 p.m.
The painter Peter Doig was born in Edinburgh in 1959, grew up in Canada and
has been living in London since 1979. To the spectator, his large-format paintings seem to open up like real spaces,
but at the same time their surfaces in their abstract pictorial style are hermetically sealed. The figurative representation
of people, architecture and landscapes is never rooted in nature, but instead is a stage for memories which are
culled from the artist's experience, from biographical or photographic snapshots. Things we encounter in our world,
as well as our way of dealing with them and with our experiences are thus reflected at various levels. The high
quality of Peter Doig's paintings has various reasons: their vagueness, their constant movement between tradition
and a radical break with anything preceding them. The exhibition will encompass about 40 works created in the nineties
and will be accompanied by a German/English publication with texts by Matthew Hicks, Felicity Lunn, Eva Meyer-Hermann,
Terry Myers and Hans-Werner Schmidt.
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Peter
Doig "Blizzard seventy-seven"