New Installations Mascha Mioni 2015
Brainware as still-life
Oil & pigment on canvas, 36m vacuum cleaner hose, wrapped with 600 meters of worn sari-silk torn to strips, 2015; 180x180x250 cm; foto: mm
Brainware animated
Oil & pigment on canvas, 36m vacuum cleaner hose, wrapped with 600 meters of worn sari-silk torn to strips, moved by electric motor, artificial fog; 2015; 180x180x250 cm
Insieme
Silver wire, crochetted, stretched, 250x220x100 cm; 2015; artificial fog
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Exhibition at the JinZe Arts Center, Shanghai
During October/November 2014 Mascha Mioni was artist in residence at the JinZe Arts Center, Shanghai, and displayed there her new creations in an exhibition Mascha Mioni spent more than two months in China and incorporated the manyfold impressions in a variety of ways in her work.
The discarded rice straw, that she found lying in the yard, was recycled into an eleven yards long ladder "Purpose of Life". The calligraphy lessons led to thirty paintings "Ink on Paper". With the red seal-ink she bought on the antique-/flea-market she 'signed' close to 5000 fingerprints on paper. The image of the cotton-pickers in the vast fields of Xinjiang and the raw cotton balls found in the nearby village, together with the old bricks lying around from the reconstruction work, resulted in the installation "20 Pyramids"; and the soot-blackened cotton cloth of the cook inspired to "Phoenix from the Ashes".
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Mascha Mioni is Artist in Residence at the JinZe Arts Center, Shanghai
Report in German in the on-line news-paper beiUns, uploaded Nov. 28, 2014 "...When, begin 2014, Mascha was asked to apply for artist in residence at the JinZe Arts Center, Shanghai, she immediately said yes..." (free translation from the German beiUns)
left: Feiran Young/JZAC teaches Mascha Mioni how to correctly hold a brush for Chinese Calligraphy -right : In the court-yard of the JinZe Arts Center Mascha recycles the discarded rice-straw - Photos: H. Graafhuis, Meggen, Switzerland
Conclusion of the more than two months long stay in China - citation from beiUns:
"....
Diese Ausstellung ist für uns das krönende Ende unseres mit täglich neuen Erlebnissen gespickten Aufenthaltes in diesem Riesenland mit seiner eindrücklichen, viele jahrtausendealten Entwicklungsgeschichte. Diese Entwicklung inmitten einer Welt, deren Ressourcen immer knapper werden, ist zurzeit so rasant, dass deren Zukunft kaum einschätzbar ist."
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Mascha Mioni at the panel discussion at Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok
In Nov. 10, 2013 guest curator Yoshiko I. Wada moderated a panel discussion with Prof. Kinor Jiang and his research associate Dr. Guoxiang Yuan of Hong Kong Polytecnic University and Mascha Mioni.
Mascha Mioni in front of the poster to the exposition at Jim Thompson Art Center. The poster shows her Rooibos Teabag Dress.
In her presentation Mascha Mioni discussed the differences of creating a piece of Art to Wear and painting on Canvas.
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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.