JAVIER CALLEJA

working together

In 2021 Mira Mikati invited us to produce a table tennis bat for Javier Calleja as part of the joint capsule collection. To launch the collection we also made a one-off ArtTable featuring Javier’s artwork.

This proved so popular we worked with them again in 2023 on another bat collection and 25 limited edition ArtTables.

Javier’s bio

Javier Calleja is a Spanish artist born in 1971 in Malaga, Spain. He rose to art world prominence thanks to his instantly recognisable figurative works, which often feature wide-eyed characters with exaggerated proportions. The Spanish artist’s practice spans painting, sculpture, and works on paper, as well as an array of editioned work and merchandise. Calleja has become an international sensation with strong solo museum exhibitions as well as several solo gallery shows in cities such as Hong Kong, Greece, Germany, Tokyo, Spain, Rome and London.

It Must Be Love - Art of Ping Pong

At Christie’s Modern and Contemporary Art Evening sale in Hong Kong on July 2020, the artist had an auction record when his work WHAT? (2018) sold for HK$3 million, six times higher than its high estimate. Following this, Phillips on Dec 2020 sold the artwork No More Stories (2019) for HK$4 million, well over the 300-500k estimate. In March 2021, Calleja’s secondary-market record broke US$1 million for the first time, when his 2019 painting Waiting for a While sold for HK$8.8 million (US$1.1 million).
It Must Be Love - Art of Ping Pong

JAVIER CALLEJA

IT MUST BE LOVE

£3,700.00

This exclusive collection was produced in partnership with Mira Mikati for Javier Calleja’s third solo exhibition at the Almine Reich Gallery in Mayfair, London, in June 2023.

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