Single Doublebed 
Bird trying to Escape its Drawing 
On 12. September 2007 the Top Up Art Club met for the very first time for an informal pre-preview at emilyTsingou Gallery off Regent Street where the artist Peter Callesen introduced his most recent works. Using A4 size copy paper, he transforms dramatically this plain material into paper cut sculptures that explore the themes of utopia and tragedy drawing on mythologies, biblical stories and childhood memory. His images and narrations evolve around notions of death, decay, destruction and human failure. But you will also find a strong sense of poetry, and even humour. That is what make these art works such amicable reminders of the conditions of human life! These are artworks that can be read in seconds. But they are more clever than what meets the eye, and you will have to admit that it is not often you meet angel skeletons, birds trying to escape their drawing, bloody flowers becoming insects, and erected ruins with perfect shadows ...