Magnus Gjoen biography in Biographies from the artzine on artrepublic.com

It’s this misconception of beauty which Magnus Gjoen wants us to see in a different light, being it weapons, animals or the human race itself. Taking inspiration from street art and pop art and juxtaposing it with fine art, he creates new and modern takes on old masterpieces or manipulates something powerful and strong into something fragile but beautiful. He often questions the correlation between religion, war, beauty and destruction in his art. 

To create his images Magnus first builds a virtual 3D base either from a 3D program or in the case of the machine gun it is first outlined in illustrator, and then meticulously shadowed and highlighted in Photoshop to create the 3D base. For the Renaissance images the picture is then "molded" to fit the base.  The delph porcelain is a more lengthy process as the original flat etchings need to be layered and blurred just right to give the final effect.   

Magnus Gjoen was born in London to Norwegian parents and studied design in London and Milan and works as a designer/graphic designer for Vivienne Westwood.