This
summer we can enjoy in Helsinki the exhibition where art and design are living happily together.
In
November last year 16 Finnish artists and designers were invited by Marimekko and Museum of Contemporay Art
Kiasma to
creative meetings to do something new in art and design using (if they wanted,
it was not obligatory) Marimekko´s materials, factory and tradition.
The
collaboration got a name Kimpassa (Together) and it opened last week.
The result is a crazy, eye-opening and touching experience not to be missed.
There will never be flower
design in Marimekko fabrics, said Armi Ratia, the founder of Marimekko, a long time ago. Remembering this made artist Hanna
Vihriälä this giant candy rose.
A long monster
story Pääjalkaiset (Cephalopods), painted on plywood by designer Erja Hirvi, illustrates boldly the mechanisms
of our society.
A long
poem written with clothespins by artist
Anu Tuominen welcomes you to the exhibition.
The Greenhouse full of green objects is also by Anu, who is really a genius in collecting all kind of stuff.
Artist Jenni Hiltunen created a huge netlike ”painting” made of Marimekko waste fabrics, all dyed by hand and shred
into long strips.
Company, Aamu Song and Johan Olin, gave an international
twist to Jokapoika shirt and Iloinen takki, classic designs by Vuokko
Nurmesniemi. Here they are made of
traditional Korean Saektong Yangdan silk satin fabrics.
Company´s designer Aamu Song.
Marimekko designers Aino-Maija Metsola, Noora Niinikoski and Sami Ruotsalainen styled a creative collection of
women dressed in painted fabrics. Photos by Kira Gluschkoff.
A detail of a big village of
clay figurines by Jenni Tuominen. The artist herself is at the top blessing the whole gang.
Visual
artist Tommi Musturi, best known of his comics, brought to the exhibition a picture story, an allegory of life, in the form of a giant lampshade.
Kimpassa/Together
is open until September 7th 2014.
