Peter Doig – Concrete Cabin
Peter Doig's Concrete Cabin II (1992) Oil on canvas © courtesy the Artist and Victoria Miro Gallery, London
A couple of years ago I went to an exhibition of Peter Doig’s work at Tate Britain. I particularly loved his group of paintings called Concrete Cabin… a group of works in which Doig depicts a block of run down apartments in France – originally conceived as a visionary post-war housing project by Le Corbusier.
Although the block (Unité d’Habitation apartments in Briey-en-Forêt) was long deserted, overgrown and in a bad state of disrepair by the time Doig decided to paint it, I love the way that he somehow managed to capture in his paintings some of the romance of the original utopian idea. Eery and atmospheric, they drawn you in…
Peter Doig - Concrete Cabin (1991–2) Oil on canvas © courtesy the Artist and Victoria Miro Gallery, London
