Shibori on heat-resinated Polyester
Silk, copper and silver threads
365 individually formed tears, 2016
Installation 660 x 265 x 150 cm
exposed at the Centro de los Artes S. Agustin/Oaxaca, Mexico 2016

Foto: Carlos Rieder, Luzern

Tears from Heaven
Eric Clapton

Would you know my name
If I saw you in heaven

Would it be the same
If I saw you in heaven

I must be strong and carry on
'Cause I know I don't belong here in heaven

Would you hold my hand
If I saw you in heaven

Would you help me stand
If I saw you in heaven

I'll find my way through night and day
'Cause I know I just can't stay here in heaven

Silver wire, crochetted, stretched, 250x220x100 cm; 2015; artificial fog

Photo: Carlos Rieder, Lucerne

Oil & pigment on canvas, 36m vacuum cleaner hose, wrapped with 600 meters of worn sari-silk torn to strips, moved by electric motor, artificial fog; 2015; 180x180x250 cm

Photo: Carlos Rieder, Luzern

Oil & pigment on canvas, 36m vacuum cleaner hose, wrapped with 600 meters of worn sari-silk torn to strips, 2015; 180x180x250 cm; photo: mm

When Verena in red
lost her wits

When Hinduwomen
cut their saris in strips

When dust stopped flying
through the hoses

The blue of the Sky
fell to the floor

And hell came
upon us

TEXAID Plastic Bags transformed to Lismete

3D-Installation "Lismete", plastic bags cut, knitted, stretched,
600x300x320 cm (18x9x10 ft)
Foto Carlos Rieder

During six months Mascha Mioni collected red-white TEXAID plastic bags, (which are used to collect second hand cloth from households, to give to charity) from friends and acquaintances and cut them in stripes to knit them with thick needles into tissues of different size.
Carlos Rieder has photographed these recycled bags in an installation in the fotostudio of simon+kim, Kriens. (werbefotografie.ch)

The installation shown here is 18 feet wide, 9 feet deep and 10 feet high.

In an exhibition it will be adapted to the site, which will result in a new installation of art.

Body and Mind, Mascha Mioni 2018 and
The Big Connection, Mascha Mioni Team, 2010
on the artwalk Trun along the young river Rhine / Art spel Rein

Skins of Humanity - Mascha Mioni at the Aarbergerhus, Ligerz/Berne Art-Textile at the Aarbergerhus

From October 23 to November 2, 2008, Mascha Mioni, Verena Welten von Arb, Manuela Krinzinger, Ursula Rutishauser, Monika Gasser and Lilli Krakenberger show their Art at the Aarbergerhus/Ligerz. The theme "body wraps" was interpeted very extensive: Apparel as an autonomous piece of art in space, not attached to a body. Ligerz is where Elsi Giauque (1900-1989) lived. The pioneer of textile art, who was inspired by the Bauhaus was successor of Sophie Täuber-Arp.

The art critic Marianne Mitttelholzer writes about "Skins of Humanity":
"...Die Wortbilder enthalten Satzskelette, die die Künstlerin in den letzten zwei Jahren tagebuchartig aufgezeichnet hat. Wie das Kleid den Körper umhüllt, umschweben die niedergeschriebenen Gedanken den Geist des Menschen. ..."
Gedanken zu Hüllen des Menschseins - erschienen im Kunstmagazin futuro

"...The "word-pictures" contain skeletons of sentences which the artist has collected in her diary for the last two years. In the same way that a dress floats around the human body, the written thoughts hover around the mind of a human being. ..."

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