Gerle Margit – Bimorph II

Margit was Born in Hungary in 1949. She graduated from the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest in 1973, where she studied in the Department of Ceramics from 1968 in the class of Csekovszky Arpad, George Janossy and Imro Oaks. At the start of her career she worked as an industrial designer. She made numerous study visits and travelled abroad as a lecturer to Finland, Italy, The Netherlands, etc. For a year she worked as ateacherof painting in a secondary school, and from 1990 to 1993 as a professor in the specialist department at the College of Arts (HUAC). She regularly attends national biennials of ceramics. She took her PhD in 2005. Between 1980 and 2006 she received 46 orders for murals in Hungary, Austria and the USA Her preference for cylindrical and spherical forms was replaced at the start of 2000 with innovative forms made of lined paper and cardboard She regularly participates in national and international competitions, exhibitions and symposia, runs workshops and gives lectures in her home country and abroad. Her works can be found in private and public collections and texts about her work in specialist publications. The Biomorph cycle – figures resembling organic ancient forms, zoomorphic or vegetative shapes from some fantasy botany or zoology, from a pseudo-nature and plants created as fiction – stands out in the painting/drawing segment of her art.