Carlo magno painter biography
Carlo Magno is a Filipino Asian Modern & Contemporary painter who was born in.
Carlo Magno is a Filipino Asian Modern & Contemporary painter who was born in How much does a Carlo Magno cost?
Into the macro with artist Carlo Magno
Not every artist gets to shift gears midway through life’s journey, but Carlo Magno did. 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.
Forty years as a professional artist has not made Carlo Magno complacent with his craft.“I got really drained,” he says of his realist phase. “I felt like I was in a box. I couldn't move