Mascha Mioni in the journal "ETHOS: Dialogues in Philosophy and Social Sciences"
Asst. Prof. at İZMİR DEMOKRASİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ, Dr. Goezde Yetmen, writes in her essay in the journal "ETHOS: Dialogues in Philosophy and Social Sciences" on Wearable Art on p. 79f:
"... For example, Miyake's work "Mutant Pleats" suggested pleats in next season's fashion design trends. (Koda, 2004, p. 93) Like Miyake's "Mutant Pleats"
Tim Harding's "Oaks", Mascha Mioni's "Drache-Shibori" and recently "Body Skin and Hair" and "Perfect Hurts" by Sandra Backlund. Its effects on designs are unquestionably accepted. (Sterk, 2005, p.29), (Duncan, 2002, p. 124)
and p. 81:
"... Many of the Wearable Artworks are to be viewed and understood as works of art, not to be worn. Today's important representatives are Jorie Johnson, Tim Harding, Mascha
Mioni, Galya Rosenfeld, Sandra Backlund. ..."
(Translated by the webmaster from the attached original Turkish essay using Google Translate)
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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