Parallels X 144” x 60” Mixed media on Canvas 2022
SIERRA BLUES 48” x 48” Mixed Media on Canvas 2022
FORMAL PARALLELS
Carlo Magno creates mixed media artworks on canvas and sculptures. By reject ing an objective truth and global cultural narratives, he creates work in which a fascina tion with the clarity of content and an uncompromising attitude towards conceptual and mini mal 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 ap proach 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 recog nizable 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.
Carlo Magno’s work works are based on formal associations or parallels to the human condition which may or may not necessarily be narrated in a precise and formal manner. This in turn opens a unique poetic vein in the narratives and expositions of each artwork. Multilayered images arise in which the fragility and instability of our seemingly certain reality is questioned, the fleeting moments of unbridled joy celebrated, and the resil ience of the human sprit become celebrated truimphs. By applying abstraction, he tries to develop forms that do not follow logical criteria, but are based only on subjective associations and formal parallels, which incite the viewer at each instance to make new personal associations and correlations to their own existential nature.
Though the artist has veered away from formal representational work, his time as a hyper realist focusing primarily on portraiture and architecture have become the foundational cornerstones of his abstract and mixed media practice today. To deconstruct an idea or an image to its many different components, one must first begin from a fully formed whole. To fully be able to appreciate the various elements, one must also begin with an understanding of the whole. Indeed it is impossible to create abstraction from nothing. One must learn the rules before you can break them, it is how one earns their due to be able to delve into abstract work. And that is how Carlo Magno finds, reconfigures and redefines the formal parallels between the real and the abstract.
Cindel Tiausas CURATOR
REVERIE 36” x 48” Mixed Media on Canvas 2022
60”
Media on Canvas
LIGHT BEATS 30” x
Mixed
2022
SILVER RAIN 20” x 20” Mixed Media on Canvas 2022 PACE 20” x 20” Mixed Media on Canvas 2022
BLUE MOUNTAIN ”72 x 60” Mixed Media on Canvas 2022
PEACABLE MOMENT 72” x 72” Mixed Media on Canvas 2022
SECRETS 20” x 20” Mixed Media on Canvas 2022
TIDES I 36” x 60” Mixed Media on Canvas 2022
TIDES II 36” x 60” Mixed Media on Canvas 2022
TIDES III 36” x 60” Mixed Media on Canvas 2022
TIDES IV 36” x 60” Mixed Media on Canvas 2022
REJOICE 20” x 20” Mixed Media on Canvas 2022
TAKE FIVE 24” x 24” Mixed Media on Canvas 2022
BLUE MOUNTAIN 60” x 72” Mixed Media on Canvas 2022
SONG FOR YOU 30” x 60” Mixed Media on Canvas 2022 SWALLOW DANCE 30” x 60” Mixed Media on Canvas 2022
PERSPECTIVES VI 12” x 12” Mixed Media on Canvas 2022 PERSPECTIVES V 12” x 12” Mixed Media on Canvas 2022 PERSPECTIVES IV 12” x 12” Mixed Media on Canvas 2022 PERSPECTIVES III 12” x 12” Mixed Media on Canvas 2022 PERSPECTIVES I 12” x 12” Mixed Media on Canvas 2022 PERSPECTIVES II 12” x 12” Mixed Media on Canvas 2022
PERSPECTIVES IX 12” x 12” Mixed Media on Canvas 2022 PERSPECTIVES VIII 12” x 12” Mixed Media on Canvas 2022 PERSPECTIVES VII 12” x 12” Mixed Media on Canvas 2022 PERSPECTIVES X 12” x 12” Mixed Media on Canvas 2022
SILK SATIN I 18” x 60” Mixed Media on Canvas 2022 SILK SATIN II 18” x 60” Mixed Media on Canvas 2022
SILK SATIN III 18” x 60” Mixed Media on Canvas 2022
SERENATA 24” x 24” Mixed Media on Canvas 2022 SYNCOPATED 24” x 24” Mixed Media on Canvas 2022
RAW SIENNA 24” x 24” Mixed Media on Canvas 2022 CHANGING RHYTHM 24” x 24” Mixed Media on Canvas 2022
LIGHT AS A FEATHER 60” x 72” Mixed Media on Canvas 2022
TIDE 30” x 60” Mixed Media on Canvas 2022
HIGH
IMPERFECT 24” x 24” Mixed Media on Canvas 2022
PURE MOOD 20” x 20” Mixed Media on Canvas 2022 JUBILATE 20” x 20” Mixed Media on Canvas 2022
RIVER SONG 36” x 48” Mixed Media on Canvas 2022 ROUND MORNING 30” x 48” Mixed Media on Canvas 2022
PRELUDE
TO THE DANCE 36” x 48” Mixed Media on Canvas 2022
RIVER MOON 72” x 96” Mixed Media on Canvas 2022
FORMAL PARALLELS 72” x 96” Mixed Media on Canvas 2022
