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Art and its stories as an inspiration
Peter Doig
Poster for Pierrot le Fou
2004
Share... for the pleasure
The British painter Peter Doig acquired international renown in the early 1990s. His canvases, which today are among the most expensive on the art market, question the relationship between
man to nature: we discover there general-
ment of wild or desert spaces in the
in which the human presence seems insignificant. Works that are both suggestive
and poetic, produced in a style that favors
gie the general atmosphere and the mystery it
induced on precision of detail.
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In 2003, when he had just settled on the island of Trinidad, in the Caribbean, he decided to invest in a project which would certainly bring him neither money nor
advertising, but which will in return give him a certain pleasure. A passionate cinephile, he created - with his friend
painter Che Lovelace - a club baptized StudioFilmClub ,
for share with Trinidadians its
enthusiasm for the 7th art. Since his
creation, the club therefore offers each week
ne, in a small room of show, a
free screening of a film chosen by Doig and
Lovelace . About sixty people
come to discover, projection after pro-
projection, works by Godard, Almodovar or
Kurosawa. An audience of modest size, but an immense pleasure for the painter who - proof of his commitment - creates a poster himself for each film screened.
What we can take away:
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The imperatives of profitability of our contemporary companies have led us to dissociate the notion of work and the idea of pleasure... until you forget that enthusiasm conditions performance. Getting involved in a sharing project, with no immediate interest other than the sole pleasure of the exchange, is not a waste of time: on the contrary, it is an excellent way of cultivating both your own motivation and that of collective.
