PETER DOIG (b. 1959, Scotland),

'London', 2003 (detail), 2006

RARE Vintage Limited Edition Exhibition Poster

Limited edition vintage exhibition poster printed on heavy paper. Produced in 2006 in conjunction with the artist's solo poster exhibition, STUDIOFILMCLUB. Edition of 100. Dimensions: 24" x 18" sheet, 10" x 18" image. Excellent condition / New (never framed or displayed).

Ballroom Marfa, TX was thrilled to host a solo exhibition in 2006 by one of the foremost painters of our times, the Scottish-native, Trinidadian resident, Peter Doig. Over eighty of Doig’s film posters from the Rheingold and Ringier collections were included in the exhibition at Ballroom, as well as posters from the artist’s personal collection. Doig created each of these works for his ongoing STUDIOFILMCLUB, co-organized by Trinidadian artist-peer, Che Lovelace.

In 2005 the Museum Ludwig, Köln and Kunsthalle Zürich devoted major exhibitions entirely to the STUDIOFILMCLUB works and in 2006 a small selection of Doig’s posters were included in the Whitney Biennial but Ballroom’s show was the most comprehensive exhibition of the artist’s STUDIOFILMCLUB posters to date to be presented in the United States. The exhibition at Ballroom showcased over eighty works in total, dating from 2003 through 2006.

Doig and Lovelace co-founded STUDIOFILMCLUB in February 2003 in response to the absence of an arthouse cinema and a subsequent lack of film diversity in their home of Port-of-Spain. STUDIOFILMCLUB’s base was set up in Doig’s studio and the artists’ choice of films is as democratic as the atmosphere. Titles range from Catherine Breillat’s Fat Girl (2000) and Billy Wilder’s Some Like It Hot (1959) to Wong Kar-Wai’s Chungking Express (1994). An oil painted poster by Doig — often done that very day — announces each evening’s screening.

In conjunction with Peter Doig: STUDIOFILMCLUB 2003 – 2006, Berlin and Hamburg-based artist Jonathan Meese did a special performance at Ballroom on the evening of Thursday, 28 September 2006. Meese is renowned for his paintings and sculptures, and his practice at times combines these along with photography, installation, and performance in an all-encompassing performance theatre.

Peter Doig was born in Edinburgh, and in 1962 moved with his family to Trinidad, where his father worked with a shipping and trading company, and then in 1966 to Canada. He went to London in 1979 to study art at the Wimbledon School of Art, St Martin's School of Art (where he became friends with Billy Childish) and later the Chelsea School of Art, where he received an MA. In the middle 1980s he lived and worked in Montreal.

In 1993 he won the first prize at the John Moores exhibition with his painting Blotter. This brought public recognition, cemented in 1994, when he was nominated for the Turner Prize. In 1999 he selected EASTinternational with Roy Arden. From 1995 to 2000 he was a trustee of the Tate Gallery.

In 2002, Doig moved back to Trinidad, where he set up a studio at the Caribbean Contemporary Arts centre near Port of Spain, and also became a professor at the fine arts academy in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Many of Doig's pictures are landscapes, very abstract, with a number harking back to the snowy scenes of his childhood in Canada. Doig’s landscapes are splendidly layered formally and conceptually, and draw on assorted artists from art history, including Edvard Munch and Claude Monet to Friedrich and Klimt. His works are frequently based on found photographs (and sometimes of his own), but are not painted in a photorealist style, Doig instead using the photographs simply for reference.

In 2005 Doig was one of the artists exhibited in part 1 of The Triumph of Painting at the Saatchi Gallery in London.

In 2007, a painting of Doig's, entitled White Canoe, sold at Sotheby's for $11.3 million, then an auction record for a living European artist. Paul Schimmel, chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles said in an interview that the sale made Doig go from being "a hero to other painters to a poster child of the excesses of the market."

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