textile forum about Mascha Mioni at the 8th ISSymposium in Hong Kong
Mascha Mioni's works Karukareb I and II, dyed with redbush-tea in the art magazine textile forum
MASCHA MIONI / CH
http://www.maschamioni.ch
This painter and textile artist studied katazome under Shinzo Kajiwara in Tokyo 1994/95. Her art-to-wear has featured at various shibori symposia as well as the exhibition "Wearable Art - Draped, Shaped, Flow and Shadow" held at the Hong Kong Design Institute from 14th Dec. 2011 to 13th Jan. 2012.
"Mascha Mioni expresses art through clothing. She is often guided by coincidence, for instance during a stay in South Africa where she was forced to use natural dye because her 15 litres of Dupont dyes did not get through airport security. The colours produced by dried red bush (rooibos) tea are a reflection of Africa - its landscape, often bleak and containing thousands of browns, ochres, beiges and yellows.
textile forum 1/2012, S. 23
The reknown textile artist Christina Conklin/USA comments the exhibition:
"...Wearable Art: Draped, Shaped, Flow and Shadow, curated by Lydia Tanji and Elita Lam, included dramatic hats and gowns, as well as several shibori pieces, the most compelling of which were Mascha Mioni's redbush tea-dyed paper garments..."
textile forum 1/2012, S. 21
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Mascha Mioni at the 8th Internationalen Shibori Symposium in Hong Kong
Mascha Mioni was invited to the group exhibition at the 8th International Shibori Symposium in Hong Kong.
The exhibition
"Wearable Art - Draped, Shaped, Flow and Shadow"
at the
Hong Kong Design Institute
took place from Dec. 14, 2011 to Jan. 13, 2012.
Mascha Mioni exhibited her two art-to-wear dresses Karukareb I und Karukareb II.
Mascha Mioni expresses art through garments. Intellectual analysis and planning are not important to her. She is often guided by coincidences, as for instance in Sotuh Africa, where she was forced to use natural dyes, because upon leaving Switzerland airport security confiscated her 4 gallons of Dupont dyes from the checked baggage.
The colours produced by dyeing with dried redbush tea (Rooibos) reflect Africa. The often bleak landscape, displaying thousands of browns, ochres, beiges and yellows,...
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Mascha Mioni im Kunstmagazin futuro - contemporaryart 2011
The foreword to the fourth art-to-wear book
In futuro - contemporaryart 2011 art critic Marianne Mittelholzer, Wangen/Zurich, Switzerland, introduces the fourth book with art-to-wear of Mascha Mioni "vor der Kamera von Carlos Rieder - Textil Art mascha mioni", and thinks about the series Phoenix contained therein.
"...textile artist Mascha Mioni has thoroughly studied kimonos. Because a kimono is never only a garment, it is always also a work of art. It is dress and picture at once..."go to post
With her textile-art Mascha Mioni helped significantly to reposition the Shibori technique
Ecaterina Ileana Bitay earned a magna cum laude on her PhD thesis: "SIMBOL SI TEHNICĂ ARHAICĂ-RAPEL IN CREAłIA CONTEMPORANA" at the Universitatea de Arta si Design Din Cluji-Napoca, Rumania. In it she studies the history of Shibori/Ikat/Batik up to today and lists on p. 12f of the English translation those artists that helped significantly to reposition the Shibori technique in the artistic field:
"…
I made an analysis of the creation and innovation activity of numerous artists in the textile field, who contributed significantly to the development of the Shibori technique and its repositioning in the artistic field.
These are: Jun’ichi Arai, Hiroshi Murase, Tsuyoshi Kuno, Trine Mauritz Eriksen, Elisa Ligon, Reiko Sudo, Jurgen Lehl, Awa Cissé, Andrea Serrahn, Yoshiko Jinzenji, Sara Chiarugi, Catharine Ellis Muerdter, Hideko Takahashi, Yuh Okano, Joan Morris, Mascha Mioni, Patricia Black, Angelina Deantonis, Issey Myake, Makiko Minagawa, Yohsi Yamamoto, Asha Sarabhai, Marian Clayden, Carter Smith, Ana Lisa Hedstrom, Carol Lee Shanks, D’Archie Beytebiere, Mike Kane, Steve Sells, Mariana Carreno, Dorita Gomien, Karren Brito, Lori Bacigalupi, Marshall Bacigalupi, Ioan Mc Gee, Mark Thomas, Genevieve Dion, Barbara Rogers, Jeung-hwa Park, Mie Iwatsubo, Héléne Soubeyran, Yoshiki Hishinuma, Hiroyuki Shindo, Yukiko Echigo, Michie Yamaguchi, Kaei Hayakawa, Keiko Amenomori – Schmeisser, Junco Sato Pollack, Joan Morris, Inge Dusi, Lynn Klein, Jean Williams Cacicedo, Marie-Héléne Guelton, Chad Alice Hagen, Judith Content, Liz Axford, Jan Myers-Newbury, Peter Wheeler, Sharon Baurley, Masae Bamba, Yuh Okano, Moira Doropoulos, Terri Fletecher, Emily Dubios, Elisa Ligon, Linda Lee Kerr, Lessley Nishigawara. "
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Quotidiana on the exposition of Mascha Mioni & Lawrence McLaiughlin at the Gallery RdC
article and photo by Susi Rothmund in the Swiss newspaper Quotidiana