Until next May 18, the Real Fábrica de Tapices de Madrid (calle Fuenterrabía, 2) and Casa Asia, with the collaboration of the Fundació Llorens Artigas, presents the exhibition Art and design. MAKO and Japanese textiles.
The MAKO exhibition project that Casa Asia presented at the Centro Cultural Hispano Japonés de Salamanca, where it was exhibited for five months, now arrives at the Real Fábrica de Tapices in Madrid, within the framework of a project that adapts to the space and character of the new headquarters that welcomes it with a new interpretation of its work in the world of textile design and ceramics.
This exhibition presents a representative selection of the work of artist Mako Artigas: drawings and designs for textiles, as well as ceramics, enamels and jewelry. The exhibition is completed with a photographic archive and a documentary made for this project by Casa Asia, along with the catalogue.
Ricard Bru, PhD in Art History and specialist in Japanese art, is the curator of the exhibition. For him, “Mako Artigas has developed an extensive and fruitful trajectory around the textile industry, design for prints and, more recently, ceramics and enamel work. Her gaze as an aesthete draws from many sources and, above all, from a life surrounded by art and artists who, as if it were a forest, have blossomed with infinite shapes and colors around them”.
Mako Artigas (Tokyo, 1937) was born in interwar Japan and, after the end of the Second World War, emigrated from his country of origin and integrated into the avant-garde and modern environments of the West. Mako came to Spain in 1960, where he met Joan Gardy Artigas, ceramist and sculptor, with whom he married and had two children. The world of textile design and printing was what Mako Artigas lived and breathed from a young age, because both families, father and mother, had a centuries-old tradition in the field of the textile industry.
The visit will be made by appointment, writing an email to: visitasmuseo@realfabricadetapices.com.
