Artemisia: Living with Art

Exhibition: The Entertainer
Artist: White Lebed
Where: Galerie de la Vie, Artemisia
May 16 through June 14, 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday May 16th from 10-11 am SL time

SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Artemisia/128/128/54

The residents of Artemisia and the Galerie de la Vie are proud to present the work of White Lebed. Her series of musician sculptures are the highlight of this exhibition.  The opening event is on Saturday, May 16th at 10 am SL time. During this reception the audience will be captivated by a light and musical presentation of her series of sculptures called “The Entertainer.” With the assistance of Mr. DJ Eth Tedeschi and RobertSteven Smythe, curator of the Galerie de la Vie, Lebed’s sculptures will come alive with music. You will not want to miss this unique event.

White remembers why she started the series. “My good friend Kolor Fall was writing an opera to be produced and performed on his new sim.  He asked me to make a few sculptures to decorate the sim and assist the viewers to understand his vision. Up to that point in my SL art career, I was making  large installations and semi-abstract conceptual art.  In RL I tend to let my media lead me and dictate to me what it wants to be.  It is almost like the material draws life from my hands and then holds it in sculpture form. When looking at a sculpture one may not be able to explain why it makes you feel happy or sad but you  clearly feel it. That X factor that one feels often in art I believed was created through the physical contact of the media. I was not sure that I could create such feeling and emotion in a semi-abstract or abstract form without touching and making physical contact with the media. To create that sensual effect not from a realistic approach but from a conceptual approach as in a semi-abstract sculpture was a difficult task.  The musician figures turned out to be much more “alive” than I expected.  They were, by design, semi-abstract but still carried a significant amount of emotions and feelings.  People responded to the sculptures the way I had hoped, but it surprised me. After doing this series, I feel that SL prims are a  more interesting art tool than I had previously thought.”

One sculpture in particular has a special place in White’s heart. “I was walking around San Francisco Marina with a couple of visiting friends.  Over the usual city sounds, the street music of a beautiful sax solo dominated our attention.   It was pretty good, clear and thoughtful music.  Then I saw the man who was playing. He was quite old, tired looking, seemed like life had taken a part of his soul. He looked as though he was sick and poor.  But he was playing so very powerful with a soulful sensual style that it made me take a second look. When I did I felt that he might be a lot happier and peaceful within himself than we might assume.” That feeling can be seen in the sculpture of the saxophone player, one of eight sculptures on display.

White Lebed’s exhibition “The Entertainer” is a must see this week on the SL art scene. Come early to get a seat to watch the opening ceremony and to be the first to see these sculptures. Opening Reception is on Saturday, May 16th at 10:00 am SL time. The residents or Artemisia want you to join them in this great exhibition through June 15, 2009. Artemisia – Living with Art.