Camp Italia Gateway hosts two art exhibitions for the Summer ’21 season, with works imported into Second Life from so-called real life.
“Tracce D’Africa” exhibition
“Tracce d’Africa“ is the title of the oil painting exhibition by the artist Francesca Scollo that takes us into the mysteries of African beauty. Francesca Stefania Scollo is a young Italian painter who has dedicated much of her art to Africa. Graduated in art and painting in Catania, she lives and works in Sicily with her husband and children where they have a photographic studio and an art studio. She exhibits in the best galleries in Southeast Sicily, and her art is loved and highly appreciated. Some of the artist’s works can be found in Milan, in the “Arte Dello Spazio” gallery, and other works in private galleries and in the Town Hall of Rosolini, in Sicily. «A strong attraction for Africa – says the Artist – is inside my works and inside the colors and lights ….. Africa is always a mystery for the Western world and continues to enchant us!».
“Mask” exhibition
“Masks” is the exhibition title by Ann Novak, aka Ann Von Rhein, event manager and Professor at Salem Landschulheim in SL, media agent at Kite Co, and machinima maker by birth. Ann loves photography and RL painting. «The paintings were made in oil in RL – explains Ann Von Rhein – most of them were painted this year. They come from the heart and follow my imagination: things that happen and don’t happen in the world are my only inspiration». Tracce d’ Africa can be used on the terrace overlooking the sea of Camp Italia, while Masks in the new exhibition area,
Auditorium level of the teleport inside the sim. Both exhibitions are open to the public until the end of August 2021.
it gives me a huge pleasure to invite you to visit,
The Cathedral @Angels’ Rest
“Originally built by Patch Thibauld and textured by DB Bailey 2009, I was asked to “wire” this iconic beauty for light and sound in 2020. This installation generates a unique and powerfully beautiful ambience that needs to be experienced to be appreciated. I’m honored to be part of this “collaborative” build.
NOTE: Enable parcel media to autorun and allow scripts to play media when visiting. Midnight is the best sub setting for viewing.” – Djehuti-Anpu (thoth.jantzen)
Hilaire discovered Second Life one evening in June 2007. After joining the game and quickly looking around, he assumed he wouldn’t stay long.
However, because he had toured around SL so fast, he had overlooked the roleplay community which immediately fascinated him and continued to do so until last year.
The end of the roleplay could have been the final blow to his SL adventure, had it not been that he started to make images of his avatar in RP situations. Since then this is his main activity here in SL.
Hilaire’s main goal is to put emotions in his images and “tell” stories which everyone can interpret in their own way, In my opinion he succeeds very well in achieving this.
“A Doll’s House” is the most recent installation by Giovanna Cerise hosted at La Maison D’Aneli by Aneli Abeyante. The installation is inspired by the work of the same name by Henrik Ibsen, as Giovanna herself explains.
Doll’s house is inspired by the play of the same name by Henrik Ibsen, whose protagonist Nora, in a monologue, is confronted with a doll. Nora compares herself to the lifeless dolls moved by little girls as she is moved by the men in her life. Of course, this referred to the writer’s time, but even today, women are often in a constant state of distress, always looking for a balance, even in absurd situations. The dolls in the installation are placed in a doll’s house, almost posing in front of an imaginary lens. They are dancers trying not to drop balls while maintaining composure and balance in precarious conditions. Of course, starting from all this, the reflections and emotions that may arise from observing the work may be different, like the installation itself, which has different facets depending on the angle. The indication of the words that have accompanied the realization of the work is intended to stimulate precisely a personal interpretation. The invitation to leave a word is due to the search for essentiality. In this way, it can be contextualized and acquire a facet that will enrich the work itself and give rise to a linguistic and artistic journey developed over the coming months.
Giovanna Cerise
After visiting Giovanna Cerise’s installation, I looked up the theatrical performance of “A Doll’s House” on Youtube to get a better idea of the work that was the source of inspiration for the artist. For those who want to see it, I leave the video below.
Watch “A Doll’s House” on Youtube
The theme addressed by Giovanna in A Doll’s House is incredibly still topical. The woman feels like a doll in the hands of the men in her life. But, of course, in 1879, the date on which the play was written and the story set, women lived in a condition of subjection to their husbands and the male sex in general. Of course, today, there is no inferiority, at least not overtly so. However, women still neglecting themselves for the needs of others, often for the benefit of their husbands. And this is considered normal, part of established, undisputed reality.
Let’s go back to the original text: the first interesting aspect is that A Doll’s House is a true story from which Henrik Ibsen drew inspiration for his writing. The woman who inspired the author never forgave him, probably annoyed that her life had been used as fodder for her controversial drama.
The Doll’s House was written in Amalfi during one of Ibsen’s stays and first performed on 21 December of the same year in Copenhagen; it is a biting critique of the traditional roles of men and women in marriage during the Victorian era. Ibsen wrote in his first notes for the play: “There are two kinds of moral laws, two kinds of consciences, one in a man and a completely different one in a woman. Naturally, the one cannot understand the other; but in the practical matters of life, the woman is judged by the laws of men, as if she were not a woman, but a man”.
I recommend a visit to this complex art installation. I ask you to leave a thought for the artist, which is invaluable for understanding the work’s reaction elicits from its visitors.
Italian literature teacher and musician. In June 2009 I exposed on Pyramid, and then after, in many Italian and foreign galleries. I’ve contributed to events related to RL, such as Arte Fiera di Padova, lodged by french artist Patrick Moya (aka Moya Janus). I attended are SLB11, SLB10, SLB9 and SLB8, Art & Poetry Project (created by Rosanna Galvani aka Roxelo Babenco), for which I exhibited at the Brera Academy, Carp Diabolus and Metales, 2LEI, a demonstration against violence against women. I took part with my works at “One billion rising at Second life”
From November 2011 as well as exhibitions in galleries I devoted primarily to the design and construction of large installation: -Variations On The magic flute (January 2012)
-CyBorg Nature,per UWA Sky Sim for series (February 2012
“The opposite and completion” for the Academy of Brera with a work inspired by Narcissus and Goldmund by Herman Hesse , and that was shown in the physical location of the Academy of Brera in Milan, through the projection screen. (June 2012)
-Synesthesya for Split screen ( July 2012)
-Reflections for LEA Land Grant (November 2012)
Sherazade: if you want to survive- tell a story (Curated by Heidi Dahlsveen/Mimesis Monday) (May 2013)
-Arithmos for LEA Land Grant (October 2013)
-Fisicofollia for LEA full sim series (December 2013)
-Suffocation- Energy – The game of life- Delirium for For the project ” Your breath was shed” created by Mimesis Monday/ Heidi Dahlsveen (Mars 2014)
Il folle volo at Lost Town (august 2014)
Chaos, kosmos for LEA Land Grant (November 2014)
Speculum for LEA full sim Series (February 2015)
The eternal suspense for LEA Land Grant (May 2015)
Anniversary of different district at MetaLes ( June 2015)
Tristan and Isolde at Italianverse (July 2015)
Memories at Ber by Nordan Art (octobre 2015)
Monochrome for LEA full sim series (octobre 2016)
Flashback/ flashforward For Split screen
From the wolds to the world
Clinamen for Dimix Gallery
Ci si sdraia sulla schiena del mondo for La maison d’Aneli
I then participated in the Burn2 – 2013, where I was as an artist, with the installation “Diamonds” and at Burn2 -2012 with the artwork “Creativity” At December 2012 I took part in the collective exhibition “Polvere di Stelle d’Arte” and in December 2013 in the collective exhibition “RED SHOES” curated by Mexi Lane in Second Life, events related to that in real life organized by Francesca Barbi Marinetti in Margutta RistorArte in Rome. I took part with my work at “One billion rising at Second life” and at the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the birth of the Beatles organized by Arte Libera. The pictures of my works have been included in the book “ Sfiorami l’anima”of the poetess Cinzia Dipace. I have been invited to exhibit at The 7th International Printmaking Biennial of Douro_2014.PT and in TheProjecto, Nucleo de Desonvilmento Cultural na Republica das artes – Portugal in rl. I am involved in a large group show organized by Rosanna Galvani axa Roxelo Babenco nell’opensim Craft, for The Museum of the Metaverse.
In April 2017 I participated in the collective “Art dada opera” in Brescia ( Italy)
This morning I opened my Flickr app and found a nice surprise in the theme of Second Life Art. Rig Torok had shared his photos of the Red Dot Gallery, which is currently hosting Janus Fall’s work. I didn’t miss the opportunity to visit it and create my story about it today. Janus Fall also has her own Flickr profile, which I’m sure you will appreciate: her working style with images, especially those of the last period, is complex and catches the eye immediately. Today’s image is accompanied by a thought that inspired that specific creation. You will find it next to each image. The artworks are for sale: if you click on each one, you get the price, and you can buy.
During your visit, I recommend that you stop and read the words that accompany Janus’ artwork. It was from reading them that I realized what thought went into the creation of each specific creation. Behind a face, there is a lot to say. The two images on the ground floor deal with two themes of enormous importance: the impossibility for the vast majority of people to be heard on a global level and that natural condition of the soul, which is the calm we have lost along the way. These themes are difficult to develop in a few lines. However, reading Janus’ words, I understand her thinking. The colorful images still convey positivity, although many of the themes addressed reflect the social failure we have come to expect. In Janus’ images, I see a sprout of hope for the future. Even his words are not catastrophic but reflective without pathos.
Janus is also the artistic curator of the Red Point gallery. You will also find other artists and exhibitions open to the public, easily accessible through teleports.
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