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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Installation by Mascha Mioni on the Path of Art along the river Rhine in Trun
On June 19, 2010 the Senda d'art spel Rein in Trun will be opened again. Sculptures, art installations and figures of more than 60 artists (Matias Spescha, Leo Demund, Ruth Demont, Lawrence McLaughlin, ...) can be enjoyed strolling on this varied Path of Art between sap green trees along the young river Rhine.
Path of Art along the river Rhine in Trun
Installation Mascha Mioni Team
The Big Connection / Colligiaziun Ensi
Stone, Polypropylene - 2010
The Mascha Mioni team:
Mascha Mioni: Idea, supervision, details
Heiner Graafhuis: Realisation, knots, stones
Mark Brunner: stones, photo
Ruben & Lina Leuenberger: Prototype & stones
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Exposition at the ITC Fashion Gallery Hong Kong Polytechnic University, März 2010
he exhibition titled "Transformation: Material - Magic - Memory" stood under the patronage of Prof. Tao Xiao-Ming, Chair Professor and Head Institute of Textiles and Clothing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic Univesity and World President of the Textile Institute and Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada, President, World Shibori Network.
The curators Dr. Kinor Shou-xiang Jiang, Assistant Professor ITC Hong Kong and Yoshiko Wada had invited nine internationally renowned artists/designers from Japan, USA, India, Switzerland and Australia :
* Junichi Arai - Japan
* Jean Cacicedo - USA
* Ana Lisa Hedstrom – USA
* Tsuyoshi Kuno – Japan
* Padmaja Krishnan - India
* Mascha Mioni - Switzerland
* Rahul Mishra - India
* Barbara Rogers - Australia
* Yoshiko Iwamoto Wada - USA
They showed more than 30 innovative fashion designs, clothing of the future that will transcend ethnic and gender differences and perhaps break the confines of an establishment called "fashion".
ITC Insitute of Textiles and Clothing - Exhibition "Transformation"
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Mascha Mioni's Oil on Canvas with Sculptures of Lawrence McLaughlin at the gallaria d'art RdeC, Disentis
From Dez. 5, 2009 until Jan. 30, 2010 Mascha Mioni and Lawrence McLaughlin show a selection of their artworks at the gallaria d'art RdeC, Disentis/Mustér.
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contemporaryart futuro "Hüllen des Menschseins" by Mascha Mioni
The art critic Marianne Mittelholzer writes in the art magazine contemporaryart futuro: "... The theme of Mascha Mionis installation "Skins of Humanity" is the relationship between body and soul. ....In the same way that a dress floats around the human body, the written thoughts hover around the mind of a human being. ..." (webmasters translation)