Carlo magno artist biography
Carlo Magno is a Filipino Asian Modern & Contemporary painter who was born in.
Into the macro with artist Carlo Magno
Not every artist gets to shift gears midway through life’s journey, but Carlo Magno did.
Discover the artistry of Carlo Magno, a male artist from the Philippines whose work has been exhibited internationally in Hong Kong, Spain, and beyond.
His show “Percipience,” which closes today at Galerie Joaquin BGC, marks 40 years as an artist, half of those years devoted to hyperrealist canvases detailing houses and churches in Vigan and elsewhere—vivid red and blue doors and exteriors, highly textured, ravaged by time and the elements.
There’s a beauty in erosion—a “tingling,” Carlo calls it—that is expressed in these realist works from the ‘70s through the ‘90s. (Magno is also known for painting the famed “Love Bus” from that earlier decade, an icon of Filipino art and pop culture.)
Then he decided to shift.
The next two decades were a deep dive into abstraction—a risky move, but for him, necessary.
Carlo MAGNO is an artist born in The artist's works have gone up for sale at public auction 35 times, mostly in the Painting category.“I got really drained,” he says of his realist phase. “I felt like I was in a box. I couldn't move
