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From: Jonathan Polkest Category: Art Date: 04 March 2008 Time: 05:56 AM Review: There is not a word I disagree with from the previous Doig reviewer, I was incrementally elevated by the scale of Doigs powerful and now iconic images. One Hundred Years Ago and Blotter have been indelibly printed beyond the "surface" of my memory, like the saturate oil washes and commitment to painterly repetition in his detail. I will return to the London exhibition as soon as I get off the M4 without hesitation, with only the slightest doubts about his most recent work; in terms of its potential to express obscure moments in such a well defined idiom; The Man in Bats Costume although beautifully obscure lacks the (unfashionable word) metaphorical hyphen of earlier works, dipping towards a Blake-ian mythology, I take strength from this apparent aberration in Doigs recent stuff, perhaps he's going somewhere else.