Bjorn Calleja
"With the play of distances, Bjorn Calleja creates a choreography out of viewership: his paintings ask us to stand from afar, to step closer, then step farther again. This new work makes a rhythm out of scale. While the humanoid forms are always interesting in themselves—a human made entirely of legs, for example, or one that is an eyeball from the waist up—what makes the innovation important is the way they exist both in the pictorial premise of the painting, as well as in a separate, flat plane of their own constitution.” Marc Gabba, Postcolonial Rubbish.
BIOGRAPHY
The work of Bjorn Calleja draws on identity, popular culture, art, everyday politics, history and his own life – where no subject remain sacred.
Bjorn Calleja (b. 1981) lives and works in Manila, Philippines. He graduated at the Far Eastern University in Manila with a degree in Advertising.
Solo exhibitions include The Ennead at Secret Fresh Gallery (2018), Acme at West Gallery (2018), Postcolonial Rubbish at Pablo Gallery (2017), Self-Portrait as a Hamburger at Secret Fresh Gallery (2016), There is no Solution because there is no Problem at Underground Gallery (2016), Confessions of an Almost Artist at West Gallery (2013); Bubblegum Stories at Secret Fresh Gallery (2012); Eat my Daddy at The Crucible Gallery (2012); Some Failed Attempts in Creating a Good Image for Painting at West Gallery (2011); The Color Bringer at Secret Fresh Gallery (2011) and Fear Made me Do This at Lost Projects (2011). His works have also been shown in various group exhibitions locally and internationally.
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