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ABOUT THE WORK

Unparalleled. Incomparable. Inimitable. These words perfectly encapsulate the ever-impressive genius of Ramon Orlina. The artist, who is now entering his 48th year since his debut solo exhibition at the Hyatt Hotel’s Hyatt Gallery in Manila, emerges stronger with every glass sculpture he ingeniously yields. The revered art critic Alice Guillermo once praised Orlina’s sculptures, saying, “In his glass art, Ramon Orlina revels in his chosen role of artist as eternal player of games, purveyor of magic and illusion and creator of visions of utopian beauty.” “Mergence” is defined as the act of integrating, merging, incorporating, or absorbing various elements. In this particular piece, Orlina evokes the term’s definition in the sinuous curves and undulating corners that merge into a single majestic opus and producing an image of fineness and transparent vision of elegance. The work’s title holds true to Orlina’s creative praxis: merging the physicality and transparency of glass with the transcendental nature of his themes, thus producing works that appeal to both the senses and an almost mystical existence found in the depths of our inner beings. (A.M.)