Just Adventure's "SquareJawHero" unveils his artistically-inspired article re Myst IV: Revelation's recent opening exhibit at Dali's Museum on the South Bank of London...
Sometimes, strange things happen. Really strange things. Take Dali's paintings for example - now they're pretty strange. So what better place for a Myst game to open than at his Museum on the South Bank in London?
A small affair, comprising of two rooms full of props, concept art, sketches and computers (plus some highly attractive Picasso art in-between), the Myst Revelations exhibition was a reasonably enlightening, if more than slightly blatant, piece of marketing fun. As an attempt to further blur the lines between art and gaming, from an ex-art students point of view it was a bit of a failure. The lights were too dark, and some artwork was blatantly stuck on a window with blue-tack whilst other pictures were grouped tightly together behind strange Perspex stands.
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