- stephen bevis, spectrum-stretching artist who folds light aims for the eye's 'mind' the west australian, 9 september 2009
Marion is one of Australia’s most eminent artists, known for her paintings, sculptures and public artworks.
She first exhibited in Perth in 2007, whilst participating in our Artist in Residence programme. Her new exhibition will combine paintings from her Strobe and Liquid light series, wall installations and new sculptures.
Marion Borgelt is fascinated by how light behaves in certain environments: how it bends, folds and curls providing sensory encounters. She's interested in sequential movement that calibrates time and change in a universe of perpetual motion. The intensely coloured Strobe Series paintings pulse with light, filled with a nocturnal phosphorescence and kinetic energy. Using strong palettes of red, white and black, or purple yellow and black, offset with bands of green, pink or white, she creates resonating waves of colour across the canvas surface. The extremes of contrast are almost unsettling as she strives to get the hue, the edges, the movement and texture right.
She stated, “The colour reflects a new way of bringing life into my work, getting it to radiate and become active on an optical level. It’s bittersweet... I like to hit that point at the edge of bad taste and still get it to work. I also like the nuances, the soft vibrancy as well as the stridency.”
New works from this series have a three dimensional surface, so that not only do the waves of colour form optical illusions, so too do the physical planes of the artwork.
The sliced, twisted and pinned canvases from her Liquid Light series change with the viewer’s movement, a fluid flow of light to dark optical illusions. Marion has been working on this series for nearly six years, refining the colour combinations and technique. The flickering liquid patterns are generated by the viewer moving their line of vision or walking alongside the works. She was recently commissioned to create an enormous Liquid Light for Macau’s City of Dreams, in the Grand Hyatt Hotel lobby.
A recent visit to the Murano’s Berengo Glass Studio in Venice has resulted in her designing exquisite new glass spheres that allude to celestial bodies, or the phases of the moon. In this exhibition she will exhibit a series of marble spheres, each one shaped to represent the different phases of the moon, and etched with gold trim. These remarkable forms rest upon individual ironbark plinths that stagger in an upwards spiral from floor level to a combined 180cm height.
Marion’s work suggests connections between culture and nature, between the constructed world and the organic world, between microcosm and macrocosm and the duality of light and dark. According to Donna Brett, from the Art Gallery of NSW, “her work brings a material, bodily connection to the rhythmic pulse of nature, a universality that can be felt and experienced within the abstract.” She has worked with a wide range of other materials, including bees-wax, egg shell, felt, pigment, stainless steel, wood, stone and organic matter.
Marion has received many significant awards and her work can be found in more than 39 major public collections and in a further 22 corporate collections.
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