Aloisio Congrejo & Tani Thor @ tKF

[Tani Thor]

Italian Square & Tanalois Art
have the pleasure to invite you to
the opening of the art exhibition
"The image and the imaginary "
by
Aloisio Congrejo
and
Tani Thor

Aloisio Congrejo's 3D installation with exposure photo of Tani Thor.

Saturday, February 15th 1:30 PM SLT - 22:30 IT

Italian Square Gallery : 
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/ITALIAN%20SQUARE/139/158/2047

A picture is not the picture.
The deceptive use of prim.
Mixing of colors and transparencies.
An unexpected journey .
The creative mind deceives the eye.
Aloisio Congrejo

Color, colors, composition, decomposition, recomposition, image overlay.
Images of women .
Tani Thor


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Aloisio Congrejo
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I was born in Second Life on february 25 2007
My passion for art has been part of my virtual life from the start, and in RL began many years ago.
As an artistic 'consumer' there have been many artists both great and lesser known that I have folled and admired, but what is most important to me is to see the work of anyone who can craft various media in such a way as to express their feelings.
In Second life I began using art to express feelings and thoughts simply as a way of playing, trying out theings that were new to me, but with simplicity and entirely for my own enjoyment.
i do not think of myself as an 'artist' and certainly don't consider myself an 'inventor' of anything groundbreaking, I create art simply for the the pleasure of creating, and if what I make brings pleasure to others, I am flattered, because I see art as a language that allows the creator and the observer to communicate, in an exchange of emotions.

My creations are a search of movement and color, in some there are used scripts of motion or otherwise, and in others the sense of motion is given by the transparency that integrate with the overlap of shapes and colors.


http://vimeo.com/user3984991/videos

Personal Gallery:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Solaris%20Island/125/45/4001

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Tani Thor
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Tani Thor was born in SL in December 2007 from the curiosity that sprang from an online article written by Beppe Grillo on virtual worlds. After wandering for a few months, a meeting with Aloisio Congrejo, already a famous gallery owner, opened the world of art to me. My first "creations" were born from a little boredom and a bit of curiosity: to see Aloisio create was a stimulus. 

I did not follow building courses in SL: everything I've created, i did it by myself, but always under the watchful eye of my "mentor", who advised and guided me in the processing of prims: twisting prims, applying movement and texture animation scripts to them, all the while using my curiosity and imagination. I manipulated prims using my own personal sense of color and form, but art is something else!

With time I became involved in the organization of art galleries, creating with Aloisio Congrejo the group Tanalois Art, which since 2008 has organized exhibitions and installations in SL giving space to established SL and RL artists. We are also interested in launching novice artists into the virtual world. 

Since 2010, my curiosity has shifted from 3D creations to SL photography, and I became fascinated with the technique of morphing photographic images of human bodies with the faces of avatars, which forced me to investigate the use of a photo editor.My approach to landscape photography in SL is instinctual, as are all the things I do .... one or two shots at most, to try to catch elusive emotions. Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro are the tools I use for image manipulation, but I try not to alter the essence of the picture itself ... 

I collaborate with the artistic organization 2Lei. 2Lei in Second Life is a collaborative project between different SL groups, created in 2010 with the aim to raise awareness and spread events related to the International Day Against Violence Against Women. Virtual artists, gallery owners, musicians and people of Second Life share a common message of solidarity with women through their art. 2Lei organizes and sponsors events that deal with the issue of women at 360 ° and 365 days a year.

I am owner of "tKF" ( torno Kohime Foundation), a not for profit SL foundation created to commemorate an RL/SL artist who died in 2011. In this land, we adhere to the tenets of "Tanalois Art" giving space to all those people who want to express themselves in all forms: music, literature, drawing, photography and any expression of creativity.

In RL i am not a artist or a photographer. I found this interest of mine in the metaverse, and cultivate only here what now has now become a passion!

Personal Gallery:
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Solaris%20Island/125/45/4001 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thortani/ 
http://www.koinup.com/TaniThor/works/ 
http://tanithor.wix.com/tanithor 
https://www.facebook.com/tani.thor