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Carlo magno artist biography

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CARLO MAGNO: One of the Leading Filipino Abstractionists

FROM REALISM TO ABSTRACTIONISM

On-going One-Man Show at BMW Prestige, BMW Philippines.

The exhibit runs up to March 10, 2005, Pasong Tamo, Makati, Philippines

In his 1981 oil painting titled “Rendezvous”, realist painter Carlo Magno poignantly portrayed a nostalgic scene of lovers’ meeting place – an old church – a visual allusion to the Philippine classic Kundiman song “Lumang Simbahan” popularized by Larry Miranda.

Rendesvous, 1981, Oil on canvas by Carlo Magno.

Reprinted from the book "A Century of Realism in Philippine Art"

written by Manny Duldulao. Posted by Hello.

Rendered in a romantic chiaroscuro, the painting depicts an interior of the uppermost floor of the belfry with a huge imposing window at the center as the source of cascading light. Close to the windowsill are two wooden chairs facing each other and in-between, a single fresh rose lying on the jagged floor.

Based on the visual narrative, one can surmise that one of the lovers failed to come a

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    The Reinvention of Carlo Magno

    For at least thrice in his life, the versatile but often unpredictable modern and contemporary painter Carlo Magno (born January 19, 1960) has had a momentous change of heart.

    Written by  Benjamin “Benjie” Layug
    January 2023

    First, after taking up Architecture for a year at the Mapua Institute of Technology, he moved to the Philippine Women’s University (PWU) in 1976 to take up Fine Arts, majoring in Advertising. Here, he came under the mentorship of its then-director and dean Raul Isidro, one of today’s supreme abstract masters. Then influenced by PWU alumni Prudencio Lamarroza and Rafael Cusi, an art auction in 1980 inspired him to take up painting. 

    Very early in his life, he was already winning awards. In 1980, the year he shifted to painting, he won first prize in a YMCA-sponsored painting competition for a work titled “Bayanihan.” For his contributions to the Likarla Artist Group, PWU also conferred on him the Outstanding Leadership Award. The following year, at the Hispanidad Art Contest sponsored by the Spa

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