Sculptor Lawrence McLaughlin is preparing his exposition at the museum Sursilvan in Trun.The opening reception is scheduled for 5 p.m., July 21st, 2012.Introductory speech: Rico von Castelberg, artist and architect, Disentis.The exposition ends on Sept. 1st 2012.
„grace jaune-rouge“, concrete, glass, iron, 170 cm, 2010, Lawrence McLaughlin
Lawrence McLaughlin was born in 1956 in Litchfield Minnesota. While studying at the University of California, Santa Cruz he began working in sculpture. 1978 he moved his studio for two years to London. 1988 he completed studies in art and history of art at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris. At the atelier Charpentier he created sculptures in concrete and monoprints. Since then he works from his studio-residences in France and Phoenix, Arizona. His sculptures are represented in galleries all over Europe, the USA and Canada.
Also on the Path of Art along the young river Rhine in Trun you can find his works. For the exposition at the Museum Sursilvan he will create some new sculptures at the Bundihaus in Disla near Disentis.
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)
From the 4th of July until the 31st of July 2010 Mascha Mioni shows artwork of the painter Heidi Luft, Düsseldorf, with the title: Labyrinth of Life
and of the sculptor Lawrence McLaughlin, Phoenix/USA under the motto "Grace".
Caroline Ho Ka Hei writes in her thesis for the Bachelor of Arts at the Institute of Textiles & Clothing of Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
p. 31/32:
"In this section, six textiles designers who are renowned for their heat-setting technique applications were studied: Ana Lisa Hedstrom, Barbara Rogers, Jean Williams Cacicedo, Jun'ichi Arai, Mascha Mioni and Tsuyoshi Kuno.
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the reason of these six designers being studied in this project was due to their profound contribution to the development of heat-setting technique. Their exquisite art pieces raised my interest in heat-setting and thus set off this study.
p. 43-47:
"2.6.5 Mascha Mioni
Growing up in Switzerland, Mascha Mioni is a painter whose oil paintings on canvas were exhibited all over Europe. Later in 1986, as she studied dress-making, she started to develop silk paintings and design silk dresses. Her artistic dresses were shown in different places in the world, including Germany, United Kingdom, Italy and United States. Together with six other textile artists, Mioni published a series of three books “Art To Wear” from 1990 to 2005.
Fig. 2.6.5(1a) to Fig. 2.6.5(3c) show the dresses by Mioni in the exhibition “Transformation: Material˙ Magic˙ Memory”. From Fig. 2.6.5(4) to Fig. 2.6.5(7c) are some other works of Mioni.
..."
complete thesis c.f. pdf