Work from 1959 to 2024. Drawings and ceramics.
We present a representative selection of her designs for fabric, as well as some ceramics that bear witness to her creativity and to a full life.
She is modern and timeless. Her drawings are marked by the Japanese influence of shibui: the simple beauty of the old, of the imperfect, and a sober elegance that brings her closer to nature.
Accompanied by great artists of the 20th century, she maintained friendship with Miró and Matisse. Her drawings filled the catwalks of Paco Rabanne and Nina Ricci. She drew both for prêt-à-porter as well as for domestic fabrics and carpets.
Coinciding with the activities of the Catalunya-Japan Year, an initiative of the Government of Catalonia.
Mako Artigas was born in Tokyo in 1937. Today, at 88 years old, she continues drawing, creating, and expanding on paper a repertoire of countless images, motifs, and forms. Over more than sixty years, these have been celebrated, desired, shared, or acquired by major international fashion houses, by the great textile industries, and by artists and friends such as Joan Miró, Sam Szafran, and Frederic Amat.
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