The Thai newspaper Kom Chad Luek on the exhibition "Mnemonikos" at the Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok
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The Nation - Video of the opening by Yoshiko I. Wada of the exhibition "mnemonikos: Art of Memory in Contemporary Textiles" at the Jim Thompson Art Center Museum, Bangkok
Guest curator Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada opens the exhibition and presents some works - in the background Wax by Guo-xiang YUAN, on the left Rooibos Teabag Dress by Mascha Mioni
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Aug 22, 2013 - Feb. 22, 2014 "nemenikos: Art of Memory in Contemporary Textile Expressions" at the Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok, Thailand
Group exhibition together with Ana Lisa Hedstrom, Caroline Bartlett, Kinor Yang, Maire-Hélène Guelton, Yoshiko I. Wada et al.
The color of dried rooibos tea (redbush tea) reflects Africa to me. The often barren soil, the landscape, thousand shades of brown, ocher, beige, yellow .... In nature thousands of years past are conserved – there you have to expose yourself to the roughness, the savageness, the heat, the odors, wind and rain. To experience this environment intuitively leads to the exhibited work.
The dress is made of Rooibos teabags. Rooibos is the national tea of South Africa. A longer stay in South Africa inspired me to use these everyday natural resist dye products.
Each of the over 500 teabags has actually been drunk. I worked by hand and machine using different techniques.
The dress is delicate, but absolutely wearable.
This creation is a symbol of the necessity to use our resources wisely and recycle where we can, thereby protecting our ecosystem as much as possible.
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TEXAID Plastic Bags transformed to Lismete
During six months Mascha Mioni knitted different tissues out of red-white TEXAID plastic bags
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 from friends and acquaintances and cut them in stripes to knit them with thick needles into tissues of different size.
Now 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.
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Mascha Mioni is curating the exposition of Lawrence McLaughlin in Trun, Grisons, Switzerland
Sculptor Lawrence McLaughlin is preparing his exposition at the museum Sursilvan in Trun.The opening reception is scheduled for 5 p.m., July 21st, 2012.Introductory speech: Rico von Castelberg, artist and architect, Disentis.The exposition ends on Sept. 1st 2012.
„grace jaune-rouge“, concrete, glass, iron, 170 cm, 2010, Lawrence McLaughlin
Lawrence McLaughlin was born in 1956 in Litchfield Minnesota. While studying at the University of California, Santa Cruz he began working in sculpture. 1978 he moved his studio for two years to London. 1988 he completed studies in art and history of art at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris. At the atelier Charpentier he created sculptures in concrete and monoprints. Since then he works from his studio-residences in France and Phoenix, Arizona. His sculptures are represented in galleries all over Europe, the USA and Canada.
Also on the Path of Art along the young river Rhine in Trun you can find his works. For the exposition at the Museum Sursilvan he will create some new sculptures at the Bundihaus in Disla near Disentis.