PETER DOIG

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Survey by Adrian Searle, Interview by Kitty Scott, Focus by Catherine Grenier, Artist's Choice by Hannes Schneider & Arnold Fanck, Writings by Peter Doig
Peter Doig (b.1959) is a pioneering artist whose work has charted a new direction in contemporary painting
Doig's work has never been presented in a monograph of this scope
His paintings depict atmospheric landscapes, sometimes glimpsed beneath washes of hallucinogenic colour, at other times through nets of thickly patterned marks
Combining found images (including film stills, album covers and newspaper clippings) with visions of his Canadian childhood and landscapes from his studio in Trinidad, Doig has created a painted world that is uniquely his own
Educated in London, his home for nearly twenty years, Doig continues to influence the latest generation of British painters

Adrian Searle is Chief Art Critic at the Guardian.
Kitty Scott is Chief Curator at the Serpentine Gallery, London.
Catherine Grenier is Chief Curator of Contemporary Collections at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.