TWILIGHT13MEDIA – celebrates 20 years
- Posted on 14-09-2024
Costin Chioreanu is a widely acclaimed visual arts icon with a body of work focused on translating music into static or moving images. During the last 20 years, this Romanian artist has developed a unique, yet versatile style mostly focused on visual iconicity. That led him to collaborate with many Extreme Metal leading bands and performers, for whom he has produced stunning graphics and innovative video animations that have become easily recognizable.
Chioreanu specializes in Graphic Design, and earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at the National University of Arts, in Bucharest. He started his graphic studio, TWILIGHT 13 MEDIA, in 2003. Since then, this visionary artist has produced all types of visual expressions—from music-inspired illustration to album/book covers, posters, merchandise design and video production, which includes filming live shows, creating concert screenings, directing promotional or animated videos, etc. After two decades of constant collaborations with hundreds of bands, musicians, booking agencies, festivals and labels from all over the world, Costin has created, beyond any doubt, one of heavy music’s most complete and outstanding visual legacies.
The Twilight13media 20th Anniversary Exhibition contains a collection of artworks selected by the artist and it is presented through a revolutionary, virtual reality experience. This probably is the very first virtual reality exhibition dedicated to the extreme Metal scene, and contains pieces created for iconic bands like Ghost, Emperor, Arch Enemy, Mayhem, Oranssi Pazuzu, just to name a few. The whole App presents a new way to experience music and art in the current digital/virtual domain. It was built and produced by fellow artist and musician, Adrian Tabacaru, under Chioreanu’s art direction and published by their production house, Fruit Of Venus.
Visiting the exhibit is easy. Basically, you just need to access through a link or QR code and download the app for free on your desktop (so far it is available only for PC users). Then, you unzip it and run it, as it does not require any extra installation. After that, you will instantly enter the fantastic world of Costin Chioreanu! You will suddenly wake up at the entrance of a weird star-shaped outpost in the space which holds the exhibition.
While you admire the art display in the main hall of the building, each of the exhibited artworks will give you access to the album or song for which it was designed. These Spotify links are opening as new tabs from your main internet browser, and you can choose which of the record or song you want to listen to. In addition, the exhibition has its own soundtrack, in case you want to go with it—an exclusive cinematic, atmospheric piece composed, recorded and mixed by Costin Chioreanu himself.
This virtual reality experience is meant to present a new way of promoting extreme music and art to younger generations who are more fascinated by gaming, gadgets and all kind of augmented reality types of interaction. It can be run as both classic PC Game or Virtual Reality experience by using the special helmet and hand controllers.
The App is available for download at: https://adrian-tabacaru.com/Twilight13Media-VirtualExhibition.html
The Twilight13media 20th Anniversary Exhibition is not the first virtual reality experience produced by Fruit Of Venus. The first production was released in 2020 and was entitled “Midnight Cemetery.” This was a virtual reality version of the album “Afterlife Romance” performed by Costin Chioreanu and Sofia Sarri and produced by the Norwegian label, Dark Essence Records.
“Midnight Cemetery” was a premiere for the music industry. It gave a new dimension to the recording by giving life not just to the music, but to all the illustrations created for the booklets in one fascinating virtual experience, as the user can step and walk inside the world designed by Costin. The user can interact with the characters, can fly above this world and activate secret manifestations of some of the elements around.
“Midnight Cemetery” is available worldwide as a free download App at: