Interior designer and artist Marianna Sisson creates custom-made ecological and sustainable art from waste and recycled materials sourced from industry. From art to a wall, rug or light fixture to a partition or desk that blends into designer spaces
By: Limor Keller18/07/2022
When interior designer and artist Marianna Sisson enters a manufacturing plant, a little girl seems to walk into a candy store.The raw materials mesmerize her, make her imagination fly to other realms, and all she wants is to collect them into her lap and return to the studio to start creating her art from them. “Even during my degree studies, I worked in a factory to be exposed to techniques and waste.I used to develop products from waste and never stop trying, and to this day my house is full of materials. Today we understand that our resources are not being utilized properly, and after COVID-19, we understood how the planet can be healed from us humans if we act with it correctly.Sometimes I think we’ve forgotten that we’re all one – us and nature with the wonderful resources that are around us and for us,” she says.
Flowers sculpted from curtain fabrics in Besser Towers, Photo: Gilad Radt
To create sustainable art within the framework of her ecological brand, Art Your Space, she uses a range of materials that begins with rust, liquid metals, copper patina, aluminum and concrete coating, continues with various textiles from curtain fabrics for luxury velvets and silks, natural leathers and leathers, canvases, glass, mirrors,Plastic, fiberglass, plexiglass, wood from solid wood to veneers, to the use of natural vegetation, seaweed, palm trees, pine cones, branches, natural and mummified flowers and even18karat gold, painting in wine and olive oil and the selection is expanding every day as it embarks on its wonderful journey in the world of materials. “In fact, I call on industry to challenge me with a variety of materials, whether industrialized or natural.I study the material’s reactions to the development process, and the most interesting products come out when I try, test and research.”
METAL FANTASY, Photo: Yossi Vaknin
Sisson creates a variety of items and design solutions: art on a wall, desk, partitions, carpets, lighting fixtures and more, which are worn on designed spaces.She works with clients who value art, architects, designers, real estate companies and others, who want to adapt the values of innovation and work in sustainable and sustainable practices.Among the more than 200works she created, some of them are displayed in galleries, on the entrance floors of the Besser Towers in Ramat Gan and also appeared on the television program “The Most Beautiful Houses in Israel”.In addition, they will be part of the showrooms of the Hollandia branches.
The work Amy Winehouse,Photo:Marianna Sisson
Digital art
She is37 years old, was born in Minsk, Belarus, and immigrated to Israel in 1991and since then has been operating from her studio in Rishon LeZion.She took her first steps in the field of art design at the age of15, when she was first exposed to it, fell in love and decided to study architecture, interior design and art in high school.From here to studying interior design at the Holon Institute of TechnologyHIT, the road was short, and she graduated with a bachelor’s degree B.DESIGN.Today she is a space user experience designer and artist. “I think art was with me from a young age.My mother was a musician who dreamed of becoming a fashion designer and scribbled on every piece of paper and newspaper in the house, and my father is an alternative healer and handyman, and from the age of four I used to carpenter with him and build furniture for the house,” she says.When she creates for herself, she feels that she looks at the world differently and can return a gift to the world to preserve it. “I believe that the spaces we are in shape our personality and our feelings.”
The inspiration for her art is the Japanese Kintsugi philosophy, which turns the fragments of the instruments themselves into a work of art, as well as nature, music and even children’s fairy tales.She defines her added value as an artist by looking at the material and what can be extracted from it. Indeed, her creations surprise, stimulate the imagination and take the viewer to another dimension.They can’t be ignored. “You have to have special skills to get a crazy result and you have to be someone crazy to get a special result,” said Moti Haiki of B-ART-TEC, who worked with her on a unique light fixture, while another customer adds: “Her history, prayer, emotions and emotions, sincerity and truth together express her inner world and hence the space that surrounds her.”
Creation from leathers,photo:Maor Moyal
The work “Jerusalem“, photo: Maor Moyal and Yossi Vaknin
Her combination as an interior designer and artist gives rise to advantages such as developments and practical thinking in integrating art as part of the space, utilizing and leveraging the project’s raw materials for a harmonic symphony campaign, and even finding an ecological solution as an added value to the quality of life.The art she creates is unique in being a sustainable art with sustainable production processes. The purpose of these processes is to adapt the art to the space at the level of aesthetics and refining the project and to expand the art in the project while utilizing raw materials and leveraging costs.Each of her creations can be illuminated by the use of advanced technologies. She recently created a fascinating collaboration with Haiki to develop a work of art illuminated by floating contact, and is currently developing artworks illuminated with solar technology, that is, without the use of electricity and by connecting to a smart home application.
BeLight, in collaboration with Moti Haiki, Photo: Marianna Sisson
The dining area has a piece of curtan and plexiglass. In the living room are shaped ovals and circles to display collections, Photo: Maor Moyal
What controls what, in your opinion, art over design or vice versa?
“It’s like a dance between worlds.The more one studies the worlds that deal with art perception and aesthetics, the more one realizes that the beauty and wildness that are revealed before us are also scientific, physical and psychological.These are energies that merge into one creation, like life.As an artist, I want to enrich the viewers’ experience and enhance feelings and good feelings.As a designer, I understand that I have a responsibility to lead to groundbreaking solutions in order to preserve the planet and ensure a worthy life in it.”
The piece “Faith” made of skins and 18karat gold paint, Photo: PR
