Work from 1959 to 2025. Drawings and ceramics.
We present a representative selection of Mako Artigas’s drawings for textile design, along with ceramics that bear witness to her creativity, exhibited for the first time in Barcelona.
Mako is a modern and timeless artist. Her drawings reveal her origins, the Japanese influence of katagami, which she learned through her family, and which she combines with Western beauty and tradition, as well as a sober elegance that brings her closer to nature.
She maintained a close family friendship with Joan Miró through her husband, the ceramist Joan Gardy Artigas. She was also deeply influenced by the forms and colors of Matisse. Her designs from the 1980s and 1990s graced the runways of leading international fashion designers such as Paco Rabanne, Kenzo, and Nina Ricci. Her concept of art is global and embraces prêt-à-porter fashion as well as fabrics and carpets.
The exhibition is complemented by a textile piece by Francesca Piñol, woven on a TC2 digital loom from a creation by Mako Artigas.
Curator: Ricard Bru
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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