After my visit of “American Shot” by Milena Carbone at Nitroglobus Roof Gallery (read part I here and part II here) I got in contact to Milena Carbone (mylena1992). She invited me to see her gallery “The Carbone Gallery” and invited me to her gallery group.
Actually Milena has not just one own gallery, she also has an affiliate at Noir’Wen City, the city that develops more and more to a colony of artists. I visited The Carbone Gallery at Noir’Wen City first.
The Carbone Gallery at Noir’Wen City – outside and 1st floor inside
The Carbone Gallery at Noir’Wen City is in an old former warehouse and has 2 floors. It is named “Art & Bookstore” for a good reason. On the ground level of the gallery you find a board advertising for Milena’s portrait and art service, a board advertising the main Carbone Gallery, a list of her current exhibitions at the different places and – a bookstore.
The books are made for reading within Second Life. They attach on the HUD and you can scroll foreward and backward through the pages. One of the books offered is the book accompanying the exhibition “American Shot”. But there are others, all by Milena and all with her art and texts. And there are also free books to grab. You might want to retreat to a sunny beach, lay in the sun and read – no restrictions in Second Life.
The Carbone Gallery at Noir’Wen City – bookstore and ads for the main gallery and for the portrait and art service
The overview about Milena’s current exhibtions is impressive. The main gallery hosts an art café and two exhibtions, two more exhibtions are currently at other galleries (one is “American Shot” at Nitroglobus Roof Gallery). The Carbone Gallery at Noir’Wen City hosts one exhibtion named “My favourite things”, another named “Locked” in a skybox that belongs to The Carbone Gallery at Noir’Wen City, one exhibtion of a guest artist, Norton Lykin, named “Lux Aeterna” in a second skybox belonging to The Carbone Gallery at Noir’Wen City and a 3rd exhibtion of Milena Carbone “The testament of Mahdi” in the church of Noir’wen City. I had seen the 1st part of this exhibtion called “The Sermon of Mahdi” in September 2020 (read here). Therefore I focused on the exhibtion “My favourite things” on the 2nd floor and had a short visit to “Locked”.
The Carbone Gallery at Noir’Wen City – Impressions of “My favourite things” (1)
“My favourite things” is as the name implies a collection of about 20 pictures that Milena likes most of her own art. Most of them are female portraits and pictures of females in different environment. They all stell a story – Milena is a story teller with pictures and words. Some of them really invite the spectator to watch longer and to immerse oneself in them.
Milena Carbone (mylena1992) is a French artist and is in Second Life since mid 2019. She discovered its artistic potential and since then has devoted all her free time to creation, associating, as in real life, images and texts. By accepting the rule of the “double” (the real “I” and the virtual “I”), she includes herself in her artwork: “Milena Carbone is a fiction in which, as in any artistic work, biographical and imaginary elements are mixed.” Her creative process is iterative: some of her images inspire her stories and these stories modify the development of the image, which itself transforms the story.
The Carbone Gallery at Noir’Wen City – Impressions of “My favourite things” (2)
That Milena isn’t only an artist creating pictures, she also writes. The exhibition “Locked”, shown in the skybox, consists of 4 rooms called Sideration, Glimmer, Breakdown and Amnesia. Each room has several pictures, 3D objects (not from Milena) and a story. The four phases of this story unfold in a precise order for Milena, but she does not impose it on us.
The Carbone Gallery at Noir’Wen City – Impressions of “Locked”
I’m impressed of Milena’s creative urge. Considering the relative short time she’s in Second life, she has already left quite a big footprint. Moreover it is interesting to see how Noir’Wen City is developing. I plan to finish my “Milena Carbone” cycle with a visit to her main Carbone Gallery soon.
Landmark to The Carbone Gallery @ Noir’Wen City
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Landmark to The Carbone Gallery @ Noir’Wen City – skybox 1 (exhibtion “Locked”)
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Landmark to Noir’Wen City Church – “The testament of Mahdi” by Milena Carbone
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Landmark to The Carbone Gallery @ Noir’Wen City – skybox 2 (exhibtion “Lux Aeterna” by Norton Lykin)
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