Art world links which caught my eye…
Peter Doig ” Country-Rock (Wing-Mirror)” oil on canvas 76.7″ x 106.3″ 1999
Peter Doig is a contemporary painter who I was very interested in at one time – until I discovered he uses a projector to create his art. I have strong feelings against this practice, as I wrote about in an earlier piece, The Image Morgue:
“Projector artists. Artists who cheat themselves and their audience by projecting an image onto their canvas and doing a paint-by-numbers routine to create their works. Artists like this have reduced themselves to a mere cog in a mechanical reproduction process, not creating, but taking dictation from their gadgets. They let their tools make their discoveries for them. It is an inferior mode of creation.
“If you’re an artist, do your own rendering.”
Still, Doig has done wonderous things with color and the handling of the paint. which is why I continue to enjoy his work. He can evoke beauty.
It’s estimated Doig’s 1999 painting Country-Rock (Wing-Mirror) will be setting some auctions records.
“In 1972, sixteen-year-old Berg Johnson – a self-anointed ‘Caretaker of Dreams’ – painted a rainbow over the grey façade of a roadside underpass on the outskirts of Toronto. Johnson was inspired by the memory of a friend, Sigrid, who had tragically died in a car accident nearby. He would often complain to her that people in Toronto ‘never looked up’ and following her death he wanted to do something to make people smile.
“It is Johnson’s rainbow tunnel, just off Toronto’s Don Valley Parkway, that we glimpse as if from the passenger seat of a passing car in Peter Doig’s Country-rock (wing-mirror), 1999. This mysterious landscape is distinctly Doig: characterised by his trademark otherworldliness and capturing the familiar ennui of such peripheral spaces.
“Every time a major landscape by Doig is offered at auction it represents an important market moment: only last year, Swamped, 1990, established a new artist record of US$39 million. Replete with mystery and intrigue, Country-rock (wing-mirror)will be a highlight of Sotheby’s Hong Kong Contemporary Evening Auction this autumn, the most significant work by Doig to be offered at auction in Asia.”
Read the full article here: Sotheby’s – Looking Beyond the Surface of Peter Doig’s Painting of Toronto’s Rainbow Tunnel
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