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Viewing Peter Doig 

Modern master, Edinburgh born Peter Doig returns with a major exhibition of new and recent works, now open at The Courtauld Gallery.

Featuring 12 paintings and 19 works on paper, this rich and complex exhibition includes a group of major canvases created since the artist’s move from Trinidad to London in 2021, presenting an exciting new chapter in the career of one of the most celebrated and important painters working today.

In 2021 Doig moved back to London where he has set up a new studio. This new studio has become the crucible for developing paintings started in Trinidad and New York and elsewhere, which were worked up alongside completely fresh paintings, including a new London subject. The works produced for the exhibition at The Courtauld convey this particularly creative experience of transition, as Doig explores a rich variety of places, people, memories and ways of painting that have accompanied him to his new London studio.

Widely acknowledged as one of the world’s leading artists Doig’s Monumental canvases injected with lozenges of colour adorn the walls of the institution; juxtaposed with buttery European scenes, Trinidadian domesticity and harlequin skiers.

At the same time, the Gilbert and Ildiko Butler Drawings Gallery showcases the artist’s work as a printmaker with a display that unveils for the first time a series of prints Doig made in response to the poetry of his friend and collaborator, the late Derek Walcott. Delightful Doig. A must visit for anyone in London.

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Dates
10 February 2023 — 29 May 2023

Viewing Awol Erizku: Cosmic Drill

The art of Los-Angeles based artist Awol Erizku, spanning photography, painting, sculpture, and mixed media, address issues of race, identity, politics and cultural history. Uniting his practice is his unique visual language and distinctive iconography, exploring everything from urban culture and basketball to art history and NASA telescopic data.

His third solo exhibition at Ben Brown Fine Arts, Cosmic Drill, includes large-scale mixed media paintings and a mix-tape produced specifically for the exhibition. Also featured is the totemic sculpture Head Crack (Stack or Starve), comprising three large-scale, stacked dice rendered from Black Absolute granite, Verde Malachite marble and a Red Jasper from Madagascar. Get to Mayfair pronto.

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Dates
27 January 2023 — 06 April 2023

Viewing Günther Förg: Tupfenbilder

A prolific painter, sculptor, graphic designer and photographer, Günther Förg was one of the leading figures of postwar abstraction. In his highly conceptual practice, he explored the materiality of making and what art critic Kirsty Bell has described as ‘the visual field’.

This exhibition contains Förg’s Spot Paintings, the artist’s final series made between 2005 and 2010. Partially influenced by photographs of Francis Bacon’s studio — which was covered in colourful blotches of excess paint — they feature expressive, dynamic brushstrokes and dabs of vibrant colour.

In these works, the brushstroke itself is the main protagonist. Across the variations of paintings on display, you’ll see contrasting shades of greens, pinks, reds, browns and yellows against backgrounds of cool and pastel hues. This body of work beautifully celebrates the act of painting and is quite simply a delight to behold.

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Dates
01 February 2023 — 29 April 2023
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