Vincent exhibition in SL

I am indebted to the SecondLifeInsider blog for a hint that the new Dutch developer group Tr3ssis were planning a major exhibition of Vicent Van Gogh in Second Life. The group has developed both the skybox rental sim next door and this exhibition as a showcase for their abilities.

When I visited him, anxious to see the exhibition a couple of days ago, Milan Brynner told me that they were taking their introduction to SL slowly to ensure that they understood the community and their ways. He promised to let me know when the exhibition opened, and this morning he was as good as his word….

The Van Gogh exhibition, which opened today, is the first of three exhibitions of Dutch artists which the Tr3ssis group plans. On teleporting, you find yourself outside a French cafe, on the cobbles outside the foyer for the exhibition. Clear labels invite you to join a coloured path for landscapes, still life, or portraits and people.

The gallery is a series of pods, connected by paths showing the thin coloured line you have chosen to follow.

The group has put tremendous organisational effort into providing floating titles for the paintings and notecards too, which provide interesting snippets of information about the specific painting you are looking at. The trivia boards along the corridors also offer general information as you move around.

It can get a little disorientating as you move about using the teleports at the end of each corridor, but you can usually find your way back to what I thought of as the sunflower hall, which is a convergence of the several paths, where there is a teleport back to the beginning.

This is an amazing opportunity to see a large number of Van Gogh’s works all in one place, and one which shouldn’t be missed.