Sabine Finkenauer x Marimekko Collaborate on Graphic Collection

The Marimekko Artist Sequence was conceived to permit the heritage Finnish design model to ask rising and celebrated artists to interpret their catalog of products in their very own distinctive trend. Earlier collaborators embrace artists Virginie Hucher and Landon Metz. Marimekko’s newest artist collaboration introduced in time for Milan Design Week 2023 is with Sabine Finkenauer, a Barcelona-based German artist identified for her textural abstractions of landscapes composed of rhythmic colours and geometric line work – an ideal pairing for Marimekko’s personal textile prints and residential items.

The 16-piece capsule assortment is described as a celebration of the “pursuit for timelessness and the expression of artwork within the on a regular basis objects,” with Finkenauer creating seven unique items of artwork to decorate the capsule assortment throughout each ceramics and residential textile merchandise. There’s a little bit little bit of Klee and Calder in spirit throughout the gathering; whether or not printed throughout textiles or ceramics, Finkenauer’s work melds effectively so as to add dimensionality onto arduous and plush surfaces alike.

“My creative technique may be outlined as a sport whose guidelines I set up by enjoying,” explains Finkenauer. “And, above all, an aspiration for simplicity by which I consider the best magnificence resides.” The artist’s vocabulary of easy and daring shapes are in service of each decoration and geometry, which in fact makes Finkenauer’s work simply adaptable for objects supposed for home use.

“[It’s] one thing very pure and opportune for the reason that dialogue with the crafts and the theming of the decoration are a part of my creative curiosity,”
says Finkenauer. “For me it has been a rare expertise working with Marimekko and understanding that my drawings will shine in lots of houses accompanying their resident of their each day lives fills me with satisfaction and pleasure.”

Marimekko partnered with Durat, a Finnish firm manufacturing three-dimensional surfaces out of recycled plastic for the week-long conceptual and summary set up at Milan Design Week, one displaying Sabine Finkenauer’s complete inventive course of from art work sketches to remaining merchandise, alongside the premiere of Marimekko’s new glassware sequence designed by Matti Klenell [shown below] via April twenty third.

For these on the lookout for a extra simply and accessible Marimekko collaboration, there’s all the time the IKEA x Marimekko BASTUA assortment (we nabbed a bench ourselves).

The Marimekko exhibition is open to the general public via April 23, 2023 at Galleria II Milione within the Brera Design District.

Gregory Han is the Managing Editor of Design Milk. A Los Angeles native with a profound love and curiosity for design, mountaineering, tide swimming pools, and highway journeys, a collection of his adventures and musings may be discovered at gregoryhan.com.