Melu has opened a new exhibition that follows seamlessly from her exhibition “Art Deco Ladies” and continues the thread. It is called “100 Retro Ladies” and it is shown at a new gallery “Melu’s Black Gallery”. When I went there, the provided landmark brought me to Melusina Parkin’s Minimum Gallery. From there I had to take a tp pad to get to “Melu’s Black Gallery”.
It’s been less than 2 weeks since I visited “Art Deco Ladies” (read more here) and the exhibition can still be seen. At first glance, “Art Deo Ladies” shows nothing but the same pictures, but at second glance you can see that all the pictures are different and show different ladies, very different.
“100 Retro Ladies” is a kind of sequel under different auspices.
The “100 Retro Ladies” are shown on the 4 walls of a skybox gallery. Each wall shows 5 pictures under a different general subtitle/colour: “Red, Ivory, Teal and Black”. When you click the pictures, the next series of the same subtitle is shown. All pictures show – surprise – “Retro Ladies”, ladies that fit into the era of Art Deco.
Melusina wrote: “AI images manipulation allows to create series of similar pictures inspired to a theme. I used them to build a rich exhibition of 100 portraits of retro ladies in four different color tones and shown in groups of five. Explore this extensive collection of facinating retro images. A selection of images is also available for sale.”
Impressions of “100 Retro Ladies” by Melusina Parkin (1)
In the center of the exhibition space you can grab a free gift. Don’t miss getting it!
I am a fan of Melusina Parkin’s art and have seen quite some of her exhibitions. Melusina Parkin’s style is minimalistic. She usually takes her pictures in Second Life. The minimalism forces the spectator to focus on details, that might stay unseen when too much distracts the view. Lately she tried out different things, in particular she explored the possibilites of creating art based on AI generated pictures – like the “100 Retro Ladies”.
Each portrait is a piece of art. each lady is different, they wear different hats, have different hair styles (though mainly comparably short hair cuts), the background and the clothes they are wearing fit to the overal subtitle of the series. The background of the prtraits is not too distracting and the style of the portraits is still minimalistic. I was excited to see this variety of portraits, all fitting to one era. All ladies look outstanding in their own way. Don’t miss seeing them.
Impressions of “100 Retro Ladies” by Melusina Parkin (2)
Melusina Parkin is in Second Life since September 2008. She has been a fashion manager, a journalist, a furniture creator, a builder, a decorator and a photographer. Her work as a photographer has been showcased in more than 50 exhibitions – from which I saw just a few. Melusina has a flickr account which counts more than 13,000 (!) photographs. Extensive collections of her photos can be seen also on her blog Virtual Exhibits and on some slideshows on Youtube (links also under this post).
There’s also an online book with her Second Life exhibits 2011-2019 here.
Melusina Parkin has an own gallery at Time Portal, “Melu’s Photo Gallery” and an own store for Art Deco furniture called “Melu Deco“. Melusina also owns a second place (Melu Space) with another gallery (Minimum Gallery), a bookstore and another “Melu Deco” inworld store.
Thank you for this exhibition, Melusina. I enjoyed the “100 Retro Ladies”!
Landmark to Melusina Parkin’s Minimum Gallery
Take the teleporter pad to Melu’s Black Gallery and to “100 Retro Ladies” by Melusina Parkin from there
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Lunula/129/107/621
Landmark to Melusina Parkin’s Melu Photo Gallery
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Time%20Portal/248/101/1940
Landmark to Melusina Parkin’s store for Art Deco furniture “Melu Deco”
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Time%20Portal/243/99/1930
Melusina Parker’s flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/melusina_parkin/
Melusina Parkin’s Virtual Exhibit blog
http://meluphoto.blogspot.it/p/home.html
Melusina Parkin’s youtube channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVzglBiqhrOLXnAp3Qt3Zjw
On line book Second Life exhibits 2011-2019
https://www.calameo.com/books/005997622f28dd58ca75d
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