Carlo Magno creates mixed media artworks on canvas and sculptures.
By rejecting an objective truth and global cultural narratives, he creates work in which a fascination with the clarity of content and an uncompromising attitude towards conceptual and minimal art can be found.
The work is aloof and systematic and a cool and neutral imagery is used. His art practice provides a useful set of allegorical tools for maneuvering with a pseudo-minimalist approach in the world of mixed media art.
These meticulously planned artworks executed in an almost spontaneous manner are borne out of years of refinement from his time as a hyper realist where the use of light and shadow, proper composition, creating visual interest were much more straightforward. But in abstraction, the very same principles are still at work but are more indirect yet nonetheless integral to the narrative and aesthetic success of an artwork.
Though his work does not often reference recognizable forms, the intention of form and narrative are there, coinciding in an almost formal parallel to the aesthetic and emotional dynamic of the work.
Though the correlation between the two are not easily seen, it is his job as the artist to create, maintain and perpetuate the balance between those elements.
Formal Parallels exhibition series will run from October 26 — November 8, 2022 at Art Lounge Manila – Molito in Alabang, December 1 — 18 at Art Lounge Manila — Podium and at Manila Bang on December 8 – 11 at UGF, Expansion Wing, Civic Drive Hallway, Festival Mall, Alabang.
