The London-based, Anglo-Nigerian artist pulsates design in installations, interiors, and object designs that draw on his African origins for colorful new narratives.
“Art and design have to be accessible to all” is Yinka Ilori’s guideline, which he has been putting into apply fabulously for the past 5 years via his eponymous studio. The multidisciplinary artist-designer, born in Islington in North London, develops a graphic, ethnic, and chromatic language, mixing his dual Anglo-Nigerian heritage for handcrafted, supportive, and emotional creations. His tasks purpose to exhibit that design has a constructive influence on modern society and has the facility to convey communities together. While he attracts on his optimistic worldview and the cultural traditions of his family, his designs also pay homage to the geometric sensibilities of the Memphis group of the 1980s.
An explosive cocktail
His studio has a gentle stream of tasks, injecting a dose of excellent humor between inside design, objects, recycled furniture, pop-up stores, and exhibitions. We cite particularly his current installation in Germany, “Filtered Rays,” which explores the relationship between mild and colour. But in addition “A Giant Chair Does Not Make A King” for the London Design Pageant in 2017, which invited the public to “depart your ego apart and keep in mind that, no matter success in life, all of us share this bond of humanity.” As well as, take a look at his new FitFlop seashore flip-flop and flip-flop assortment and his collab’ with LG for The Conran Store’s window display, full of eye-shaped TV screens. And the “laundry of goals” composed of 200,000 Lego bricks, his maximalist wallpapers for Lick, and the basketball for the Canary Wharf courtroom. Yinka Ilori thus affixes his signature: colourful, conducive to the imagination, escape, and all prospects.
Nathalie Dassa
Photograph credit Yinka Ilori Studio
L’article Yinka Ilori or the explosion of colors est apparu en premier sur Galerie Joseph.
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