Yann Minh is an accomplished artist, talented in multiple disciplines.
His Second Life gallery is currently showing the works of various French BDSM and Cyberpunk influenced artists, his own included.
The work at the gallery ranges from the disturbing, to erotic, evocative, sexy, intriguing. The range is so great that I don't think it would be possible to "like" them all..
And this fact is of great interest in and of itself. No attempt is made to pander to the viewer's likes or dislikes. The artists come across as simply not caring what we as an audience might think of their work. I respect that.
Some of the images are from RL or have both RL and SL elements in them.
Click this link for some of Minh's RL BDSM photographic work.
For me, one of the most interesting pieces at the galley was Minh's "Le Point De Vue Du Miroir" which is a 3D graphic analysis of Diego Velázquez famous 1656 painting 'Las Meninas'.
It is not possible to describe what Minh has done with this work using words and 2D images. It has to be seen in Second Life at the gallery. Click this link to watch a short film which reveals the work's secrets and mysteries or visit this web page for a more detailed analysis.
It was a real pleasure meeting Yann, the introduction being made by Tutsy Navarathna, one of Second Life’s premiere machinima makers.
Tutsy and Yann are RL friends.
I imagine them sitting on a terrace next to the Seine, smoking Gitanes, sipping black coffee and red wine, casually admiring the legs of passing Parisienne ladies, discussing Sartre and the nature of the reality of the avatar...
Pixie Rain xx
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