Origins

For her ManilArt exhibit, an enduring interest in the visual aspects of the origins of the family dynamic is manifested in Marge Organo’s use of energetic and ever-evolving colors. Shapes, medium, and structures are used to evoke emotions, focusing on the human elements of the artist’s latest sculptures.

The intimate and ever-changing complexities of the familial structure serve as the dominant influence behind her new works, including visual aspects of human figures as manifested in her pieces such as “Heir Apparent” and “Like Mother Like Daughter”, playing the illusion through the distinct formation of a head and a body of two human figures: a parent and its offspring. Organo’s artworks for Origins are also inspired by the movement of the body, including its capability to play an instrument, conveyed in her one-of-a-kind miniature piano which the artist made by glass casting, glass lamination, and cold working (an extensive procedure of using both warm and cold processes). Gracing the walls would be an installation project of mounted glass bubbles with interactive brass figures consisting approximately of 40 pieces of spherical figures scattered arbitrarily.

As a craftsman of color and glass, she explores that realm where real life meets imagination thereby discovering special moments between members when reality intermingles with imagination. Her exquisite glass sculptures explore the subtle colors and delicate beauty of the human connection and encourage the viewer to ponder their origin.

Starting with the rudiments of painting in 2014, and figurative sculpture, Marge Organo moved on to pursuing studies in glass sculpture at the prestigious and internationally renowned Studio of the Corning Museum of Glass in New York, where she was also granted scholarship at her 2nd year of study in the same institution the following year. After her stint at Corning, she was accepted at the Kamenicky Senov, Czech Republic (the oldest glass making school in the world), where she learned glass casting under the tutelage of topnotch Czech artists. With her angular abstract glass forms, she manages to incorporate different figurations that play with diffused light. In this manner, Organo succeeds in making light bend through various refractions and reflections in ways that seem almost implausible. How she manages to achieve this effect in her practice speaks of her measured method and highly intellectual approach to art.

Marge Organo’s “Origins” will be on view at Booth B1 of ManilArt 2019, located at the 3rd Level of SMX Convention Center, SM Aura, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig from October 9 – 13, 2019. Galerie Raphael Shangri-la is located at Level 4, Main Wing Shangri-La Plaza Mall, EDSA cor. Shaw Blvd. Mandaluyong City and Galerie Raphael Serendra is at the Second Level, The Piazza Serendra Mall, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig. For inquiries, contact Galerie Raphael Shangri-la at +63 (2) 8 941-6194 or email shang@galerieraphael.com.ph; or contact Galerie Raphael Serendra at +63 (2) 8 856-3034 or email galerieraphael@yahoo.com