artCore - an association for furthering online-reports and presentations of art in the internet - writes on Mascha Mioni's art in the Aarberghus, Ligerz, Switzerland
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In this group Mascha Mioni rerpresents "Art to Wear" and relates to the early works of Elsi Giaugue, from a time when this word-creation had not yet been invented.
In the beginning she colored fine silk, painted on it and folded it in meticulous detail work, to then drape it around the body. Such a "dress" could be body-wrap or hung on the wall as artpiece. In her newest creations she carried the idea to take the picture from the wall and drape it around the body to extremes by taking an empty white canvas and drape it with a few creases to a dress. The metamorphosis Picture - Dress - Art-object, was completed. With her installation "Skins of Humanity" she broaches the relation between body and soul. The main figure is surrounded by so called word-pictures, skeletons of phrases, seemingly from a diary, which can be read as self-contained thoughts.
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Pia Zeugin writes in the Bieler Tagblatt: "...Mascha Mioni .... verarbeitete eine negative Lebensssituation einer Angehörigen mit einer installativen Figur mit ausladendem Kleid. Auf Leinwand hat sie die Gedanken und Tagebucheinträge jener Zeit hinterlassen und die Stücke an Fäden festgemacht. Die anderen Enden führen zum Rücken der Figur. Es kann sein, dass Mioni einerseits zeigt, wie sie das Negative hinter sich liess oder aber auch sich selbst eingesteht, die Erlebnisse immer noch als Ballast mittragen zu müssen. ..."
"...Mascha Mioni .... digested a negative experience of one of her relatives by installing a figure with a wide dress. She noted thoughts and diary-entries from that time on pages of linen and attached them with thread. The other ends lead to the back of the figure. Maybe she shows how she set the negative behind her or maybe she admits to herself, that she still has to carry these experiences with her. ..." (translation by the webmaster)
In ihrer Arbeit zum Bachelor of Fine Arts an der Universität von Costa RIca nimmt Angela Hurtado Pimentel das 1999 entstandene Werk "Mohn Tag" von Mascha Mioni als Beispiel für die Verbreitung Japanischer Shibori-Technik in die ganze Welt.
Quelle: DISEÑO DE VESTIDOS MODA PRENDAS DE VESTIR, S. 69;
Ganze Arbeit als pdf:
Asy Asendorf's photo of Mascha Mioni's Art to Wear dress "Sérail", 2000, painted on silk jersey, was chosen for the cover of the new journal NOW, with the theme " Journeys of Discovery".
Next to pictures of paintings by Robert Rauschenberg and Tim Harding the picture of Mascha Mionis Art to Wear dress "Butterfly" was licensed by BBC as an Inspiration in the GCSE (General Certificate of Secondary Education)
BBC British Broadcasting Corporation - GCSE - Art & Desing Gallery