A New Art And Design Exhibition Featuring Jaime Hayon Opens In Rome

Jaime Hayon has lengthy defied the boundaries between artwork and design, turning on a regular basis objects into whimsical, sculptural statements. His world is considered one of daring colours, fluid types and surreal particulars, the place playful fantasy meets beautiful craftsmanship. Whether or not producing ceramics, furnishings, work or sculptures, the Spanish designer-artist infuses his creations with a way of surprise, typically drawing from his Mediterranean roots to evoke heat and emotion. His signature esthetic – subtle but mischievous – transforms on a regular basis objects into speaking items that invite interplay and storytelling.

This inventive method takes middle stage at “Profili e Gesti”, a bunch exhibition at Rome’s Rhinoceros Gallery, introduced in collaboration with Paris-based Galerie Kreo. Working till August 31, 2025, it options 5 designers – Marco Campardo, Pierre Charpin, Jaime Hayon, Jean-Baptiste Fastrez and Chris Kabel – whose works discover materials experimentation, craftsmanship and inventive expression. By specializing in profiles and gestures, the present highlights how design shapes area, motion and notion, reinforcing the continued dialog between artwork and design. Galerie Kreo, identified for its affect on the planet of collectible design, continues its custom of commissioning limited-edition items from main designers, additional solidifying the intersection of creativity and performance.

Hayon’s contribution to the exhibition, his “Atelier Wonderland” collection, exemplifies his signature mix of fantasy and refinement. Displayed alongside his wacky work and animal-shaped mirrors, his ceramic vases and chandeliers, painted in deep reds and plush greens, are adorned with imaginary creatures, whereas his shiny white porcelain vases – meticulously adorned with Bisazza mosaic tiles – showcase his mastery of element. Playful birds, geometric motifs, purple hearts and golden arabesques weave collectively in a dreamlike composition, reworking utilitarian objects into poetic expressions of pleasure and surprise. He invitations us right into a world the place artwork and design exist in excellent concord.

Your work has all the time been outlined by playfulness, creativeness, surprise and a way of pleasure. How did your upbringing and early profession form this method to artwork and design?

A variety of issues describe in my work. Positively it’s playful and undoubtedly it’s working with my very own creativeness. There’s all the time a way of pleasure, however there’s additionally a way of criticism and questioning. If you concentrate on my art work, it’s primarily very playful, however there’s all the time a kind of rigidity in it. I feel I’m like a baby after I do issues. I wish to restart from zero each time I begin a challenge. I wish to be naive, to have this sense of discovery like a baby, so I attempt to not repeat myself, I begin from zero, and that truly makes it playful. I’m all the time interested by worlds which might be misplaced. I stated misplaced as a result of civilizations have been misplaced. I like anthropology, I like museums, I like historical past, I like to have a look at folklore and issues in each nation which may click on in my mind as a result of there’s all the time a hyperlink to craftsmanship, which I’m tremendous interested by and I’ve been defending for years. I’ve been utilizing craftsmanship because the starting of my profession. I’ve all the time been passionate in regards to the folks doing issues and how one can talk with them and create one thing attention-grabbing.

Describe your artistic language.

For me, it doesn’t matter what, there’s all the time a narrative behind any challenge I create, there’s all the time an idea, there’s all the time attempting to go to my very own fantasy world. Should you take a look at an area by Jaime and also you take a look at a portray by Jaime, there’s all the time a hyperlink, the types, the objects, the fantasy behind them, the animal-like shapes, the natural types, the volumes, the textures, the colours. There’s quite a bit taking place. Over the past 25, nearly 30, years of my life, I’ve simply explored what my language could possibly be.

You’ve moved seamlessly between artwork and design. Do you method these disciplines otherwise?

I keep in mind after I began, everybody within the design world had a faculty. Individuals have been asking me if I got here from the Design Academy Eindhoven within the Netherlands or from the Royal Faculty of Artwork. There was no faculty for me. I used to be a younger man in Madrid attempting to invent what design meant to me. And I feel I’ve left a mark in design due to being distinctive, not having any background, no person telling me that’s the highway to take. I took my very own path. That’s why I can’t reply to your query about shifting seamlessly between artwork and design and the way I method these disciplines. I don’t actually give it some thought. I’ve all the time gone with my instinct. I’ve all the time began a challenge in the identical manner. The one distinction for me between artwork and design is operate. Whenever you make a sculptural vase that has two holes in it, it’s not a sculpture anymore. It’s a purposeful and sculptural object. When there’s completely no operate in it, you possibly can solely see it as a sculpture.

Do your artwork and design initiatives inform each other in your artistic course of?

They actually inform one another. If there wasn’t that freedom to specific myself within the portray world, within the sculpture world and creating installations, which you clearly don’t have 100 % with a shopper when it’s a industrial challenge, my design wouldn’t be so experimental, expressive and attempting to search for new path. That freedom comes from the artwork world. That freedom comes from no boundaries.

Your exhibition, “Bestial”, at Mindy Solomon Gallery in Miami final December and January featured fantastical work and sculptures. What impressed this physique of labor, and the way did it replicate your inventive evolution over greater than twenty years?

I might say this exhibition was about discovering myself and discovering what’s within me. “Bestial” is sort of a beast taking a look at itself within the mirror. I’ve been portray for the final six years continuous. I’ve painted about 157 work and executed various exhibitions round that. My portray observe is rising and my sculpture observe as properly, changing into increasingly essential. To have the possibility to exhibit throughout Artwork Basel Miami at Mindy Solomon, which is a lovely gallery, and to have the ability to present this work and what it means to me, was a improbable alternative. 2024 was a tough 12 months. I misplaced my father in January. I misplaced my mom a number of months in the past, and I painted that physique of labor throughout that time frame. So it’s very visceral. You’ll be able to see the brushstrokes. It’s about magnificence, it’s about taking a look at your self, it’s about taking some ideas like flowers which might be represented in historical past and never attempting to repeat the flowers, however attempting to invent the flowers, attempting to bounce with a brush to create new types. That was essential to me. I feel it developed quite a bit.

What was the response to the exhibition?

I had very, excellent suggestions, I had excellent collectors shopping for the work. An important factor was that I may do it and that I may present it, and clearly it’s bringing out my inventive evolution as a result of I’m not satisfied that I needed to cease with my success. No, I all the time need to problem myself, and portray has been an important problem. I’ve been a painter from day one in my life. I’m simply taking it again once more. I feel I can do it fairly properly and it’s a lovely exploration. I can see myself creating this observe and going someplace with it. The exhibition was additionally about bringing out the animal aspect in me, this fantasy that begins from drawing that goes to portray and leads to objects and installations. Each animal has a hyperlink to one thing – what the tiger represents, what the snake represents. All these animals, whenever you use them, they change into one thing new. The physique of labor comes additionally from custom as a result of animals have been representing all types of various issues in historical past, from the work of Rousseau and the Egyptians to Dali and Miro. Animals have all the time been there; they’ve all the time instructed us one thing. I invent the fauna and the flora, exploring the colours, the traces, the codecs. I make them in my very own manner.