From October 23 to November 2, 2008, Mascha Mioni, Verena Welten von Arb, Manuela Krinzinger, Ursula Rutishauser, Monika Gasser and Lilli Krakenberger show their Art at the Aarbergerhus/Ligerz. The theme "body wraps" was interpeted very extensive: Apparel as an autonomous piece of art in space, not attached to a body. Ligerz is where Elsi Giauque (1900-1989) lived. The pioneer of textile art, who was inspired by the Bauhaus was successor of Sophie Täuber-Arp.
The art critic Marianne Mitttelholzer writes about "Skins of Humanity":
"...Die Wortbilder enthalten Satzskelette, die die Künstlerin in den letzten zwei Jahren tagebuchartig aufgezeichnet hat. Wie das Kleid den Körper umhüllt, umschweben die niedergeschriebenen Gedanken den Geist des Menschen. ..."
Gedanken zu Hüllen des Menschseins - erschienen im Kunstmagazin futuro
"...The "word-pictures" contain skeletons of sentences which the artist has collected in her diary for the last two years. In the same way that a dress floats around the human body, the written thoughts hover around the mind of a human being. ..."
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Next to pictures of paintings by Robert Rauschenberg and Tim Harding the picture of Mascha Mionis Art to Wear dress "Butterfly" was licensed by BBC as an Inspiration in the GCSE (General Certificate of Secondary Education)
BBC British Broadcasting Corporation - GCSE - Art & Desing Gallery
Oil on canvas and Art to Wear a the Museum Sursilvan, Cuort Ligia Grischa, Trun Until Oct 31st, 2007 Mascha Mioni shows her Art to Wear and matching oil paintings in the whole museum.
Mascha Mioni does not see a difference in artistic expression, whether she works on paper, creates an oil-painting on canvas, or colors silk for a dress. For decades it has been her mission to establish the creation of clothing as a form of art. By extending the process of painting on flat canvas to creating from the picture a human hull, she adds to her work a further dimension – the picture does not only become three-dimensional it is also filled with life. A painting, formed to a dress, can not only be viewed, you can enter the object of art, you can wrap yourself in it, put yourself into it.
gh / Radio Televisiun Rumantscha, the official TV station for the fourth language region of Switzerland, shows a short clip on Mascha Mioni's exhibition at the Museum Sursilvan of the Cuort Ligia Grischa, Trun.
From Juli 7, 2007 to August 19, 2007: Exhibition of oil paintings by Mascha Mioni and Sculptures by Lawrence McLaughlin in the time-honored church St. Etienne, gallery of the city of Beaugency.