ILO: JOY

Cabinetmaker Tuulia Penttilä and ceramic artist Anneli Sainio of Fiskars will display a new collection of handcrafted objects of wood and ceramics at Design Forum Finland from 9 February to 2 December 2007. The title of the exhibition, I L O - J O Y, reflects the joy of shaping clay and constructing things of wood, of pure creative pleasure with respect for the material. The designers want this joy to be passed on the users of the objects. Tuulia Penttilä and Anneli Sainio will tell of the origins of ILO - JOY and the background of the collection to the press at 1 p.m. on Thursday, 8 November at Design Forum, Erottajankatu 7.

Tuulia Penttilä (born 1975) is a cabinetmaker and a graduate of the Heinola Institute of Crafts and Applied Arts. She designs one-off works, small editions and commissioned products. Tuulia Penttilä has participated in many competitions and joint exhibitions, at Fiskars, Kaapelitehdas - The Cable Factory in Helsinki and the Japanese exhibition tour of the Fiskars Cooperative of Designers, Artisans and Artists in 2006, among other events. She is an active member of the Fiskars Cooperative.



"My works are the tales of a cabinetmaker. I construct objects from plants displaying the measure of their lives, the marks of earth and light. The years lived by a tree are the ornaments of my pieces. Silent objects are created by combining timeless shapes, old timber and small insights. Their beauty lies in the details."

"Might it be possible to give today's Snow Whites a wooden handbag, a memory of the forest, a Finnish tale? Or will we discover a small organ-grinder within ourselves if we're given a small music box?" asks cabinetmaker Tuulia Penttilä.



Anneli Sainio (born 1953) is a ceramist and a graduate of the University of Art and Design Helsinki who designs and makes her works at her own studio at Fiskars. She has received numerous grants and prizes for her work as a studio ceramist, including the Finland Prize in applied art in 1998 and the Kaj Franck Design Prize of 2002 awarded by Design Forum Finland. Anneli Sainio has held solo exhibitions and has participated in several joint exhibitions and international touring programmes, including the extensive European tour of Scandinavian Design Beyond the Myth in 2004- 2007 and the tour of the Kaj Franck Today exhibition in China and Europe. Anneli Sainio is also a founding member of the Fiskars community of artists and designers, having participated in developing its work and activities since 1994.

"My language of form is simple and reduced: squares, circles, rectangles and ovals. The surface is like a clean sheet of paper, permitting play with glazes and ceramic processes in the material."



"My works consists of small series and unique, one-off art objects. They are the titbits of ceramics that are not put away in a cupboard after use but placed on show, for instance on the wall. A new feature of the MAKU tableware is its unique 'smudge decoration'. The starting point of the decoration is tasting and licking, 'oh so good'," says ceramist Anneli Sainio.

ILO - JOY, Works in Wood and Ceramics by Anneli Sainio and Tuulia Penttilä,
9 November - 2 December 2007
Design Forum Finland, Space2
Erottajankatu 7, Helsinki
Mon- Fri 10 am- 7 pm, Sat 10 am- 6 pm, Sun. Noon-6 pm
Free entrance, information tel. +358 (0)9 6220 8132

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