EL PAIS SEMANAL | OSCAR CALLEJA

The Art of the Bodegón • For El País Semanal, Óscar Calleja returns to one of the oldest genres in Western painting and makes it entirely his own. Each image is built inside the same stone niche, a shallow alcove that functions like a stage, or a shrine. What changes is what fills it. A quince suspended in mid-air. A designer bag beside a clay jug. Vegetables, candles, ceramic vessels. The combinations feel considered but never forced, oscillating between the domestic and the surreal. The reference to Spanish Golden Age painting is clear.