Christopher Page opens the installation “Blind Gallery” MAM-RIVER

Artist will also make your work presentation and workshop on EAV,
with entrance open to the public

The British artist Christopher Page, will open in Saturday, day 9 of december, MAM Rio, curated by Fernando Cocchiarale, the installation "Blind Gallery". The production is of Inclusartiz Institute, with the support of British Council and Lamb Arts. This is the first solo exhibition of the artist in the Museum. On opening day, to 14 hours, There will be a meeting open to the public between the performer and Fernando Cocchiarale.

The installation “Blind Gallery” was made made specifically for the space of MAM Rio. Consists of a single work that evokes a ghostly display their representations emptied. Page turned the huge mobile walls of the Museum in a monumental architecture whose surfaces are adorned with a continuum of large-scale paintings. The final effect is a disorienting environment, reminiscent of a gallery in absentia; missing images.

On Tuesday, day 12 December and Wednesday, day 13, from 14 to 17 hours, Page will hold a workshop on School of Visual Arts of Parque Lage. Yet on the day 13, to 19 hours, the artist will make a presentation of your work in The school library. All these activities are open to the public.

Biography of the artist

Christopher Page (1984, London) lives and works between Athens and the United Kingdom. He is a painter who works in large and small scales, doing paintings on screens and panels, making your illusory surfaces, In addition to installations that use the paint differently to make unrealistic its architectural contexts. The work of Page starts with the notion of space framed and, as your practice expands, He continues to analyze and discuss the indoor and outdoor space to this frame, especially with regard to the ways in which the light (and its substitutes) show and hide.

Page has a master's degree in fine arts in painting by the Yale School of Art (USA) and a college degree in painting by Central St Martins (United Kingdom). His work has been shown recently in To Site (Hong Kong), Nitra Gallery (Athens), Hunter/Whitfield Gallery (London), Lord Ludd (Philadelphia), The Averard Hotel (London), Inclusartiz Institute (Rio de Janeiro), Sushi Bar (New York) and Hannah Barry Gallery (London), In addition to several international art fairs with the LAMB Arts. Page participated in residencies of artists, including the Inclusartiz Institute in Brazil and the Container Artist Residency 01, that occurs in container ships all over the world.