He places emphasis on the individual dream. His father s death in 1990, the failure of his first marriage, and his own serious illness presumably became causes for him to become introversive. However, while being visionary, Co s recent works do not give in solely to the individual dream. Japanese businessmen busy making money, millionaires lost in absurd imagination, and girls compelled to prostitution also appear as key persons in his works. Co has not abandoned his sense of social criticism.
Social criticism is also part of the dream stage.
In that sense, Charlie Co is a chronologist of the Philippines. Chronology Born in 1960 in Bacolod City, Negros Occidental, Philippines. Studied at La Consolacion College, College of Fine Arts, in Bacolod in 1984. Studied at Philippine Women s University, College of Fine Arts, in Manila in 1986. In 1990 he obtained the award Thirteen Artists Awards from Cultural Center of the Philippines.