Arthole – Season 2
© 2008 Arahan Claveau, Nebulosus Severine & Selavy Oh
Arahan Claveau and Nebulosus Severine will relaunch Arthole (SLurl) this next August 31st with new work form them two in the Level 2 of the Gallery.
© 2008 Arahan Claveau & Nebulosus Severine
This time Selavy Oh will display a new work on Level 3 of Arthole, sadly this time Ichibot Nishi won’t have an installation due to some agenda issues.
© 2008 Selavy Oh
As i know the work of two of the artist i really suggest you visit Arthole, possibly one of the most interesting art spaces in Second Life.
Location: Kress (168,88,391)
Chasm by Nebulosus Severine
Nebulosus Severine is one of the most creative artist working now in Second Life. This time she opened a temporary installation as big as a full region.
The sensation of lost, of the “chasm” that separate all us, is the main theme of the instalation. Anyway, i think is better you see the images, you go and decide for yourself, feeling what Nebulosus wants to tell us.
Due the complexity of the work itself, Nebulosus recomends some special setting to enjoy the work as she imagined. Some specially created Windlight settings and the stream playing are recomended, find them in this post in Arthole blog.
For a more information about the settings, please, visit also this other post.
Nebulosus is part of Arthole, a group of artist creating in Second Life. Their works are normally installations that explore the sides of the human being, that hidden sides…
Arahan Claveau and Ichibot Nishi are the other members of the Arthole, a part of their personal installations around the grid they have also what we can call an “art gallery”. A place to show their works, a place to project together. 
Some time ago i wrote a post about the Arthole talking a bit about their project.
Now follow that links, download the Windlight settings, follow this SLurl and visit Chasm. The installation will be there for a month, so run!
As part of this colaborative space that is Arthole, Arahan Claveau made this video about Chasm:
‘Chasm’ – Nebulosus Severine, Windlight – Sp00ky Graves, Video – Arahan Claveau, Music – Bill Laswell & Tetsu Inoue
©2008 Arahan Claveau
Nebulosus Severine at the NPIRL Garden of Delights
Nebulosus is not only a good friend, is also one of the most interesting artists in Second Life in my opinion.
I like specially her work in 3D installations, even being mainly abstract (I mean not figurative), they are provoking and nearly. They surround you and make you feel part of it. Inside one Neb’s 3D artwork you don’t feel a strange, you feel being part of it.
Nebulosus built one of her works in The NPIRL Garden of Delights in Rezzable (SLurl), a group of sims full of environmental, hyper-formalist and 3D art. The inspirations for this project was the triptych painting “The Garden of Earthly Delights”by Hieronymus Bosch, painted between 1503 and 1504 and hosted in the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid.
The place is awesome, you can expend there hours and hours seeing great environmental works, playing, exploring, well, a pleasure for sure. From all the works there i selected to show this one, the one by Nebulosus, and i have my reasons to do it. First, she is a friend (and i can’t find a better reason 
), second, is one of the works i liked most during my explorations there, a highlight.
The installation is divided in two parts, a dark one in ground level, and a bright one up in the sky. The lower level is in black, red and some touches of white. The higher area is white and blue, with some touches of black.
It can be interpreted as Hell and Heaven, unconsciousness and consciousness… It can be interpreted in so many ways, so is better you go, explore, enjoy and have your own conclusions… and then read the notecard so you can have artist’s point of view.
Inside the Arthole
Some days ago I posted something about the new exhibition of Arahan Claveau and Nebulosus Severine (featuring Ichibot Nishi). I’ve been at the opening, was totally great to enjoy the place and the DJ sessions of Arahan and Nebulosus with great people, mostly friends. At the opening was too concentrated to take pics, but i visited Arthole again yesterday and took some pics.
I’ll try to show you most (but not all you can find there):
First level of the Arthole is, basically, some old works by Arahan and Nebulosus, but redone under a new perspective. I’d like to remark the two lockers at the sides of the landing point, that were shown in the Salon de Disruptif exhibition at the Heldscalla Gallery last year. This lockers are, in my opinion, the most personal work in the Arthole.
In the second level, some new works by Arahan and Nebulosus. Spatial, conceptual, dynamic, … are some of the adjectives that come to my mind when i was seeing the artworks, well, not sure if seeing is the right word, possibly immersed is better.
Finally, in the third level, the installation “λ.mnemonic” by Ichibot Nishi. The first thing that calls your attention is some perfect silicone breasts forming in the wall the word “SILENCE”. Then after some moments the breasts start to fly around, freely.
Of course the breasts is not the only object you can find in this installation. Is better you explore for yourself the space and take your own conclusions. Ichibot didn’t wrote any explanation about this work in a notecard, i presume he wants us to have our own conclusion. Anyway, in my opinion the installation is about the “thing-ification” of the body of the woman through plastic surgery and the beauty standards, I mean, the body of the woman understood as a thing. Maybe the artist didn’t wanted to express his worries about this issue, but, well, just Ichibot knows…
I’m not an art critic, I just know two kinds of art, the art i like, and the art i dislike… Arthole gallery is full of art i like.
Arthole, a collaborative art space
Photograph © 2008 Arahan Claveau
Arthole is a new collaborative project between artists Arahan Claveau and Nebulosus Severine. Having succesfully worked together for the first time in 2007 on the exhibition Salon Du Disruptif for the Heldscalla Foundation, they were eager to establish a permanent space for their work.
Photograph © 2008 Arahan Claveau
Both Severine and Claveau are keen to avoid what they refer to as “flat art”, insisting all the work on display is either interactive or uses the tools of Second Life to create an experience unique to a virtual world.
Another feature is the inclusion of a guest artist area, a space where the invited individual has total freedom to show off their talent and ingenuity. The first guest, Ichibot Nishi, has created an installation intriguingly entitled “λ.mnemonic” which can be accessed on level three.
Photograph © 2008 Arahan Claveau
Split into three separate levels, Arthole has been very consciously conceived to be a continually evolving space, which will strive to challenge and surprise the visitor. The environment has been designed to encourage exploration at a more considered pace, and those that choose to do so will likely be rewarded with a much more immersive and satisfying experience.
The Arthole group offers, as an extra incentive for people to join, regular member-only parties hosted by veteran DJ’s Claveau and Severine. These occasions will integrate live multimedia performance that will endeavour to confound the participants’ usual expectations.
Arthole opens to the public on Saturday 26th April 2008.
I know the work of the three artists in Arthole, and i just can say they are, for me, some of the best artist in Second Life. For sure Arthole will worth a visit.
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