Zuma

Bjorn Calleja was born on August 11, 1981 in Manila, Philippines where he was learning mad creativity lessons from Saturday morning cartoons, comic books and the three stooges at an early age. In 2004 he graduated with a bachelors degree in Fine Arts major in Advertising at the Far Eastern University in Manila and has been showing his art in several solo and group exhibitions. Art is the perfect projection of an artists perception on facts and ideologies. Growing up on both the 80s and 90s has been a major influence in my art, a time when all the cards have already been laid for us to explore and exploit. I grew up immersed on several hours of booming television programming, from monsters and sci-fi movies of the 70s and 80s, to Sesame Street, cartoons and the three stooges, superheroes, up until the time when pornography introduced itself to me. Other stuff like old fairy tale books, funny komiks, and superheroes, Illustrations from encyclopedias, the streets of Manila, and Alfred E. Neuman, all of which has also been greatly influential to my hallucinatory image factory where I develop elements to start with. My art is the result of my fascination Giant Robot Store, established in 2001 features products from around the world. Notably, fun house wares, gifts, stationeries, t shirts, comics, plush and toy figures. Giant Robot is often cited as the birthplace for Asian Pop Culture products and Uglydolls. GR2 Gallery features art exhibitions by notable artists like Katsuya Terada, Luke Chueh, David Choe, Mari Inukai, Deth P Sun, Rob Sato, Ako Castuera, Sean Chao, Yoskay Yamamoto, Uglydoll, and countless others. Oil paint is a type of slow-drying paint that consists of particles of pigment suspended in a drying oil, commonly linseed oil. The viscosity of the paint may be modified by the addition of a solvent such as turpentine or white spirit, and varnish may be added to increase the glossiness of the dried film. Oil paints have been used in Europe since the 12th century for simple decoration, but were not widely adopted as an artistic medium until the early 15th century. Common modern applications of oil paint are in finishing and protection of wood in buildings and exposed metal structures such as ships and bridges. Its hard-wearing properties and luminous colors make it desirable for both interior and exterior use on wood and metal. Due to its slow-drying properties, it has recently been used in paint-on-glass animation. Thickness of coat has considerable bearing on time required for drying: thin coats of oil paint dry relatively quickly.