1999 Gallery in der Loft - transparent souls
Transparent Souls
(Photos: Nathalie Walt, Wangen)
Mascha Mioni relies on large flat areas of colour
applied side by side to stir immediate feeling.
Beyond the superficial effect,
which soon disappears, a second stimulus emerges that may severely effect and
arouse the soul. This psychic dimension of colour has such power that it can
cause the soul to vibrate. Colour is the pathway to the soul.
I quote Wassily Kandinsky:
"Colour is the keyboard. The eye is the hammer.
The soul is a piano with many strings.
The artist is the hand who effectively, with one key or another,
Brings the human soul to vibrate."
Through colour alone, Mascha Mioni reveals the path to the human soul. Her art addresses basic human feelings such as emotion or enthusiasm. Through immersion in colour, the viewer discovers the secret glow of the soul.
(Extracts from the opening speech (see pdf) of the gallerist Marianne Mittelholzer Leuenberger at the exhibition transparent souls 1999 at the Gallery in der Loft, Dietlikon/Zurich)