Viewing Christiane Baumgartner: Wish you were here

London’s Cristea Roberts Gallery is currently hosting the largest and most ambitious work ever made by Christiane Baumgartner, the Leipzig-based artist celebrated for her monumental woodcuts based on her own films and video stills. Measuring over nine metres in width, Stairway to Heaven (2019) consists of five monochrome woodcuts derived from photographs the artist took of a large, cascading waterfall outside Quebec City in Canada. Look to the aligned horizon lines for maximum visual impact.

Elsewhere, you’ll find Baumgartner’s first depictions of a sunrise, a series of six woodcuts depicting the moon on the horizon and a new series of ‘reverse drawings’ featuring abstract figurations of colour. Also on display is a unique woodcut measuring over two metres in height depicting daylight shining through a wooded landscape against a blue backdrop. It’s a seductive show that offers welcome respite from the noise outside.