Christopher Page: Picturesque

Baert Gallery is pleased to announce Picturesque Christopher Page’s second solo exhibition with the gallery.

Christopher Page (b. 1984, UK) is a painter of light, shadow and reflection. He makes trompe l’oeil paintings on canvas, and directly on walls and ceilings, that confuse the boundaries between real and virtual space. Paintings of framed paintings with shadows cast across their surfaces call into question where the work begins and ends; blank mirrors confront us with our own absence; glowing skies distort architectural space. And yet, the paintings are not trompe l’oeil in the traditional sense. Whilst drawing from Baroque illusion, they hover on the edge of abstraction, thinking as they do about our flattened world of screens.

Page’s work has been exhibited internationally. His work was recently included in “Wonder and Wakefulness: The Nature of Pliny the Elder” at Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, New York. He has previously exhibited at Villa Lontana, Rome, Italy; Museum of Contemporary Art Storefront, Los Angeles, USA; and has had solo exhibitions at the Instituto Inclusartiz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Recent exhibitions include “Present Tense”, Hauser & Wirth, Somerset, 2024; “Earth Sky Body Ruins” (with Clementine Keith- Roach), Ben Hunter, London, 2023; “Fading Light in the Picture Gallery”, Dirimart, Istanbul, 2022; “Knots” (with Clementine Keith- Roach), PPOW, New York, 2022; and “Shadows & Reflections”, Ben Hunter, London, 2021.