An artist obsessed with ethics in the art market.
Tilt!
Conversations with Virgin Mary Saturday May 29 “Oh no. Tilt.”The word flashes in red, and the ball goes limp—flippers locked, momentum gone. A moment earlier you thought you had the angle, the timing, the control. But the machine decided otherwise; one nudge too far, and everything you’d built—points, progress, the fragile sense of mastery—vanished with…
Broken Heart Syndrome isn’t poetry—it’s diagnosis.
The narrative explores themes of personal grievances and the repetitive nature of life experiences, likening them to a soap opera. Characters grapple with unresolved family issues and the impact of belief on physical and emotional health. Ultimately, it emphasizes the importance of reshaping one’s mindset to unlock new perspectives and move forward.
Your Goods Were Redirected: Instagram as the East India Company
The post critiques Instagram’s role in censorship and control over artistic visibility, likening it to digital colonialism. It argues that Instagram operates not just as a platform for sharing art, but as a logistics company dictating who sees what content. The author stresses the need for a deeper understanding of power dynamics in digital spaces.
Unleashed
The post reflects on the profound connections we have with our pets and children, highlighting how our treatment of them influences their behavior. Through personal anecdotes and conversations, the author explores themes of kindness, understanding, and the importance of reconciling with past relationships, particularly with family, to foster healing and trust.
Don’t Wait Idly
Conversations with Virgin Mary Friday, May 26 Waiting idly is a waste of time. Use these moments for your benefit instead, try practising presence. Tonight, you’ll have guests, so you decided to make something special for supper, Tacos al Pastor: First the marinade—twenty-four hours soaking pork loin in dried chiles—then another twenty-four hours sous-viding, because…
Water Takes Many Forms
Conversations with Virgin Mary Thursday, April 27 Water takes many forms. Frozen—waiting for someone else to free it.Still—green, thick, breeding sickness.Whirlpool—moving but going nowhere, swirling with its own debris.Waterfall—leaping into the void, surrendering to gravity and consequence. Which one are you? You know the answer. You’ve been circling for months, mistaking motion for progress. The…
We Trade the Ticket for the Sugar Bag
The narrative centers on self-doubt, procrastination, and the struggle to pursue artistic ambitions. Through conversations with a friend named Jorge and reflections on personal experiences, the protagonist recognizes excuses tied to past grievances and fears. They confront their reluctance to take action, guided by messages that inspire self-acceptance and boldness.
Are You Closer to Your Promised Land?
The narrative explores the speaker’s reflections on envy and self-comparison after receiving a letter from Jorge, inspired by Virgin Mary’s wisdom. Despite their initial intentions, they find themselves distracted by neighborly envy and digital comparisons, ultimately realizing that personal growth should focus on individual paths rather than others’ achievements.
Goodbye Yellow Brick Post-It Notes
“Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” by Elton John, often viewed as a critique of fame, is framed by Bernie Taupin’s perspective. The song reflects the tension in their creative partnership: Taupin’s desire for distance contrasts with John’s pursuit of fame. It illustrates how art can express unspoken truths and manage conflicting ambitions in collaboration.
All Thing Must Pass
The post reflects on the author’s complex relationship with their late gallerist, Oscar, and the challenge of balancing artistic integrity with social media trends. Visiting Jorge, the author grapples with loss and the inevitability of change while processing grief through metaphorical comparisons to outgrown shoes and the fleeting nature of relationships.
You have Started to Smell like Ketchup
Your ketchup is leaving a bad smell in your pantry. When was the last time you poured ketchup on your food? Was it with Thai takeout or French fries? I bet it was the second. You pulled out a bag of McCain’s frozen fries, tossed them in the microwave, squeezed ketchup on top, and started…
Should You Keep Trying of Giving Up?
The struggles of submitting for Art Calls. Here I put my reflections about being artist and showing up
Frozen Pizza Thoughts
My mother flew back to Guadalajara yesterday with my brother (who returned to Boston after) and a nurse. She’s getting worse, and I feel that being alone now—with only paid caregivers, while her three sons live scattered across North America—will not benefit her at all. My house feels wrong without her—too quiet, too clean, too…
Your Thoughts are like Shoelaces
Editor’s Note: This piece continues my encounters with Jorge — a chemical engineer by trade, yet a priest by chance.
This is not Housekeeping. This is Exorcism
These are further pages from Jorge’s writings, the ongoing Conversations with Virgin Mary. I have learned to approach them with less skepticism and more attention: each letter is dense, peculiar, sometimes unsettling, yet never entirely opaque. They feel like fragments of a mind speaking across time, a mixture of instruction, confession, and something I cannot…
Your Daily Bread
These are more pages from Jorge’s writings, which he entrusted to me. He calls them Conversations with Virgin Mary. At first, I was skeptical. But with each day, I find myself less certain of my doubts, more convinced that something beyond ordinary explanation runs through these texts. They arrive like fragments of a dream: dense,…
The task left to those unseen
Editor’s Note: I continue to share the letters Jorge entrusted to me. He insisted on calling them his correspondence with the Virgin Mary, though there is no way to confirm whether these texts are a form of channelling or simply Jorge’s imagination—his own way of wrestling with demons or gods. The writings arrive like fragments…
The Missing Record
It’s curious how our minds work — how some desires are repressed, curtailed by social convention, or what we might call social suppression. But before we dig deeper into that, let me tell you a story. Our story begins in the early 1980s with Heidi Berg, a young singer navigating New York’s folk scene. She…
The Miracles You Beg For Begin Here
Editor’s Note: What follows is not a beginning but a continuation. I first met Jorge under circumstances shadowed by chance and urgency, and from that moment he entrusted me with his writings about what he insisted on calling the “Virgin Mary.” The texts arrive like fragments of a dream—dense, broken, difficult to hold together. Don’t…
You’ll Need to Break Your Habits
The following pages are the first of a series of fragments I received under circumstances I can’t fully explain. I’ve resisted the urge to “fix” them—only a few phrases were clarified where the handwriting dissolved into smudge. What remains is not a finished story, but the beginning of a dialogue already in motion.
The First Fragment: Conversations with Virgin Mary
If you cannot forgive the child you once were, you will curse the adult you have become. A man who despises his younger self is like a house divided: forever repairing walls, never able to live inside.
Remaining Seated, I Stood Up. Reflections on Authority, Censorship, and the Rules We Follow
Sometimes I think about the absurdity of customs. We follow them like lambs—not because they make sense, but because someone once told us to. Why sit at the back when the front is empty? Why turkey every Thanksgiving when I don’t even like it? Why drag a tree indoors every December and cover it with…
Why Velázquez Painted Only One Nude — and Why Instagram Still Erases Them
On the persistence of cultural censorship across centuries Charles Darwin was never meant to become Charles Darwin. His father, a wealthy physician, expected him to follow medicine or the church — safe, respectable, predictable. The young Darwin’s passion for collecting beetles, rocks, and fossils seemed frivolous, even embarrassing. When he boarded the Beagle in 1831,…
Joining the Dots
One afternoon, while leafing through a listless scroll of open calls—those desperate pleas for money masquerading as Art opportunity—I came across something peculiar. It wasn’t flashy, nor particularly detailed. Just a line or two, almost buried among more demanding announcements, It simply asked for artwork generated by artificial intelligence. “Seeking artworks generated with AI (…
My Dad was a Monster and I loved him deeply.
On Christmas Day 2024, my father passed away at the age of 85. He was, in the truest sense of the word, a monster—but not the kind that lurks in shadows with fangs and claws. He was the kind only a father can be: imposing, untouchable, a presence that overshadowed everything around him. And I…
Why People Don’t Buy Art: The Stories We Tell and the Rituals We Keep
For most people, the morning is a ritual of familiarity. My grandfather used to read the newspaper while the radio droned the morning news, offering him a constant stream of updates to critique over breakfast. My mother, more focused, restricts herself to the local news—traffic, weather, maybe a fire or two. My wife, in contrast,…
Michelangelo’s Hidden Battle
In the early 16th century, the city of Florence found itself at the crossroads of artistic genius. The Salone dei Cinquecento in the Palazzo Vecchio, an imposing chamber that already echoed with civic pride, became the stage for a remarkable artistic duel. The city commissioned two of its most celebrated artists to adorn opposing walls…
Love Conquers All, another story about censorship
In 1602, Caravaggio completed Amor Vincit Omnia, or Love Conquers All. It was the kind of work only Caravaggio could create: Cupid, standing with arrows in one hand, seems to tread casually over symbols of human accomplishment—armor, a lute, a lined notebook—suggesting that love supersedes all human endeavors. The painting was an instant sensation among Rome’s…
Congratulations, You’re Now Officially an Artist!
“Dear Carlos Fentanes, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you again for entering this year’s International Artist Awards. We are pleased to inform you that your artwork has been shortlisted at this stage. Congratulations!” Every now and then, I get a message like this. It’s official—I’m an artist! A little thrill. A…
The Silent Demand
I know it seems odd, as if taken from an episode of The Twilight Zone, but I assure you this was real. It began in the quiet solitude of my studio, where I was immersed in the creation of a life-sized charcoal drawing. My focus was razor-sharp, the deadline looming large. I couldn’t afford distractions.…
Swinging for the Fences
Embracing Failure in the Pursuit of Success In the grand theater of Major League Baseball, a batting average of .250 is par for the course, while the lofty .400 club remains an exclusive enclave for the most extraordinary of players. A batting average of .500, however, is the stuff of myth—no player has ever reached…
Ethics and Art: A Tale of Social Media Woes
Ethics, the elusive butterfly of the modern age. What is it, and how does it impact us? More importantly, how does it mess with my work as an artist? This concept is as abstract as a DeKooning painting and just as slippery. You can’t grab it and hold onto it for long; it’s free-spirited and…
Brushstrokes of Serendipity: A Journey to Gallery Representation
My initial foray into the realm of commercial art galleries emerged soon after completing my architectural studies in Guadalajara, Mexico. The year was 1993, and I found myself employed as a draftsman at a modest architecture firm. Serendipitously, news spread of Guadalajara’s inaugural Mexican Art Fair, a momentous occasion for our city.On a whim, I…
Unintentionally Censored: The Artist’s Struggle with Instagram’s AI
Over the past month, I’ve embarked on a seemingly Sisyphean task: scrubbing my Instagram account clean of any posts that the platform deems non-compliant with its vaguely articulated guidelines on sexually explicit material or something along those lines; I can barely remember what they call it anymore. Each day, without fail, Instagram flags around five…
Is this Art? My kid can do it!
In the midst of social gatherings, I often find myself exercising restraint when the topic of art arises. It’s a subject as delicate as the threads of a spider’s web, akin to the impassioned realms of religion or politics. Unlike the latter two arenas, where opinions flow freely like a torrential river, discourse surrounding art…
Nude of the Green Room (Homage to Bacon)
Crafting a statement for a painting can be a daunting task. What do I wish to convey? How best to articulate it? Will it resonate with viewers? These questions swirled in my mind as I embarked on this artistic endeavor. Recently, I had the privilege of showcasing my work at an Art Show of Miniatures…
Instagram and the Holy Inquisition Algorithm
Instagram, the arbiter of digital decency, embarked on a censorship tango with my artistic pursuits – a saga that unfolded not once, but twice. The stage was set in the unassuming realm of a Canadian Erotica Themed Art Show: “A Hot Minute” a three ring erotic art show with venues in Victoria BC, North Vancouver…
It’s Art, not Pornography.
I was invited to a Erotica themed Art Show in Western Canada, I was very excited, it’s a show that will be held in three different venues at Victoria BC, North Vancouver BC and Calgary AB it’s called A Hot Minute.I was so excited that I tried to post some of my artworks for the…
About the utility of Art
I have read a lot about Art, its meaning, its purpose and about how useful is in the real world. Do we need Art? What is the purpose of an artist? My answer it’s no, we don’t need art, the vast majority of my friends and acquaintances have zero interest in art and never have…
Taylor Swift and the Duct Taped Banana
–Taylor Swift is better than that music… and let me tell you: Taylor Swift is very bad! And that’s how it ended my introduction of John Cage to my 13yo kid. We started the conversation talking about modern art and it raised up the work “Comedian” AKA the Duct Taped Banana from Maurizio Cattelan. He…
Nude of the Green Room (Homage to Bacon)
There are some compositions in Francis Bacon’s works that aim the use of geometrical lines to define an architectural space almost like an invisible room that Bacon makes visible by drawing lines as in a comic book. I didn’t realize that until I read about it in an article in internet, I don’t even remember…
What is the meaning of an artwork?
Is this a serious question? Are you really want to know the “meaning”? Are you prepared to carry the weight of that? Many artists and art critics recommend not even ask this question because it’s a way of confessing your ignorance about art and life in general but is it a valid question at all?…
Marketing 101 for Artists
OK, let me try to explain what I am doing now with my Instagram account and other social networks. My ultimate goal would be being represented by two or three galleries across North America and Europe, basically I have been working only with 33 contemporary and PoetsArtists in Chicago and in the last three years…
Art Submissions
I’ve just clicked the submit button. It’s the 21st time on this year, 3 submissions per month, one every 10 days. Results? Nothing, niente, nada, in the best cases it’s just a rejection letter, in half of the submissions I didn’t receive anything, sometimes I found out the results on social media. I haven’t been…
Art Credit
Can you imagine the perfect world where every human can help each other and don’t try to take advantage of the situation? No negotiation or bargain, just yes or no about buying a service or a product? In a perfect world you don’t even need money to make a transaction, everybody will have “credit”, from…
What is Art?
Why do I make art and why I’m keep making it?The simple answer is I don’t know, I don’t even know what art is and what an artwork should have in order to be called “Art”. What do I know then? Well, I make doodles and people tell me that this is art. Why? Why…
How to sell your Art on Instagram
Last year she was a starving artist working as a waitress and living from tips in a moldy basement and now she’s a successful artist with more than a million followers and showing her work in the main galleries of New York, London and Hong Kong, her work has been auctioned for more than a…
Murder at Tiktok Street
Last year, popular local artist, Jane Doe, had it all: a growing TikTok following, a successful art business, and a bright future. But when one of her videos is flagged and removed by the platform, her account is shadowbanned, and her following stagnates. Frustrated and resentful, Jane becomes increasingly vocal in her criticism of the…
Secrets of my technique
Every week I started a new paragraph that supposedly will be in my blog, but I never finish, actually I barely start. So, in this small paragraphs I talk about why I paint, art fairs, drawing techniques and an endless chain of other stuff, but why I never finish them?I’m trying to generate ideas about…
The Naming of Artworks
One of the first songs in the musical Cats from Lloyd Webber is about the Naming of Cats, a difficult matter indeed. Right now, I have a difficult time trying to name a work of art and I remembered that poem of T S Eliot that Lloyd Weber took for his musical, I’m going to…
Art collectors and Art scammers
I receive a letter, it was a very suspicious letter about my art and I want to share it with you, here it is, including names: Johnson Moore <johnsonmre4222@gmail.com> My name is Johnson Moore, from Washington, DC city I have been on the lookout for some artworks lately in regards to I and my wife’s anniversary…
To NFT or not to NFT
I have been trying to understand the term Non-Fungible Token (NFT), its concept in the art world and its function with a work of art. As a concept I can get it but when it is transformed to a valuable work of art, I really don’t get it. It seems to me that It is…
What Is an Ex-Voto?
So, I was invited for an exhibition next summer with the theme: Contemporary Ex-Votos and I have to send an image by February 12 in order to be included in the catalog. But what is an Ex-Voto and what is its relevance? According to Wikipedia : An ex-voto is a votive offering to a saint or to a divinity; the term is…
Countdown: 65 days until delivering my next painting.
After my 100 days project something change inside me, I was the same but at the same time I feel that I have more control on what I am doing as an artist, and little by little I started to participate in art shows here in Canada and in the USA. I moved to Toronto…
Would you give booze to an alcoholic?
My name is Carlos, and I am artist. I have seen some movies and read novels about AA meetings and it seems that they start introducing themselves and acknowledging that they are addicts. Being an artist is a kind of addiction? Sometimes I found myself at the stationary department at the superstore buying pens even…
Flag
I started this drawing as an exercise in a Facebook group, we have to draw an ordinary object, I choose a kitchen cloth from IKEA and with this I started a conversation with the drawing and it began to get a meaning and a self identity. Jasper Johns back in the sixties created a series…
Self Censorship
Have you ever felt the need to censor your artwork in order to make it palatable to your audience and/or to make a profit? Back in the 90’s my gallery gave me some freedoms but they had some restrictions with paintings: No religion, no politics, no national symbols. I couldn’t help to make a painting…
Losing my religion
Art for me is a quest about questioning my environment: my culture and within it, Religion, Spirituality, Politics, Beauty… I am who I am because of my culture, I mean, all this baggage that I carry from my ancestors, my homeland, my friends and family… But why is so important? Can I avoid it? Is…
Inspiration or Plagiarism?
“La Poesía no es de quien la escribe, es de quien la necesita.”(Poetry is not from who writes it, it is from who needs it)El Cartero de Neruda, Antonio Skármeta What is the purpose of art? Why we make art? I said in a previous post that Art is a kind of tool for better read a problem or a…
What is Art?
What is art? That is a question that had been avoid for any reasonable answer to me. At the beginning I was thinking that it has to do something with beauty but after painters like Picasso, Cezanne or Van Gogh, I don’t know how describe beauty anymore, beauty is fragile and very subjective. Then I…
Flag (After Jasper Johns)
I took this photograph a few days ago and I didn’t know what to do with it, I just loved the way the light bath the cloth and instinctively I shoot it. A few days later in one of my Facebook groups ask us to make an art project using an ordinary object from our…
Do you want to draw with me?
Since the beginning of this year I had the idea of upload a drawing course, but the idea of filming and talk in public is hard to take for me now, maybe in the future. but that shouldn’t be an obstacle to start something, so why not start it as a blog? So why don’t…
Curatorial Fees?
Dear Carlos Fentanes, Our curator team has seen your artworks and finds these very impressive. PAKS Gallery and MAMAG Museum invite you to exhibit your art during the Cannes Film Festival, Art Basel Week and Carrousel du Louvre. You can also be part of these great exhibitions. Here i send You informations to the participations in the Biennials, as also about the possibility to be represented by the PAKS Gallery and show Your art in MAMAG Modern Art Museum. I received this note a few weeks ago and I thought that it could be a good example for one of my blogs. Gallery representation with one artwork with max size of 80cm x 80cm on the wall in the PAKS gallery + one artwork in the storage during the representation time. Cost of participation: 980 Euro. I’m not against paying for a curatorial selection for an exhibition but this is not the case, here they are not doing any kind of curatorial work: basically if you pay, you’re in, if you don’t pay you’re…
Stones on the road
“…a stone on the road, taught me that my destiny was to roll and roll…” El Rey (The King) Folk Song by Jose Alfredo Jimenez I’m keeping a registry of the submission I’ve done in the last year and sadly, the results are very similar to the exercise with galleries, most of the submissions are…
All things must pass
Hello, I’m Carlos and I’m an artist. I think I’m slow in what I do. What I mean is that for make a 8” x 11” drawing takes me too long, at least most of the average. Why is this important? Because one of the things that I like to do is register the process…
Look Mom, I’m in a magazine!
A long time ago one of my paintings appeared in a magazine, but it was strange: it wasn’t an art magazine, it was something more like National Enquirer, one of this magazines that talk about UFOs and antique civilizations and soap operas, so why do they publish an article about an exhibition in a museum?…
Another rejected letter from another Art Gallery
Hello, Thank you for submitting to The Gathered Gallery. We appreciate the time and effort it takes to submit an application.The programming for the coming months has been completed and we regret to inform you that we are unable to feature you at this time. You are welcome to reapply for future programming opportunities.Thank you for your…
Galleria Banditto: a scam?
You never knew what post is going to grab the attention of some group in your audience. This was the case of Galleria Banditto: I started to receive mails and DMs about the residency price of this gallery, they asked me about my experience and my results but also if this was a real prize…
100 days 100 galleries; Day 100: Gagosian
Carlos Fentanes: Don’t you see? the fire is not in London, nor NYC, not even Hong Kong. The fire is inside you and also inside me. The gallery didn’t answer. If you have the opportunity to ask something to Larry Gagosian, what would it be? “Hey, do you want to take a look at my…
100 days 100 galleries; Day 99: White Cube, London and Hong Kong
Carlos Fentanes: Hello, I’m painter, I’m poet and writer but more importantly I’m a thinker. You’ll see in the future.Regards The gallery didn’t answer. I know, they’re out of my league so I didn’t mind to write any kind of message, actually I didn’t ask for an opportunity or reviewing my portfolio. The question here…
100 days 100 galleries; Day 98: Galería Óscar Román, Mexico City Mexico
Carlos Fentanes: Me intrigan sus posts que dicen: OBRA A LA VENTA. Si es una galería la que pone el post, puedo intuir que está en venta en su galería, ¿Por qué ponerlo?Saludos The gallery didn’t answer. Here’s the translation: I’m intrigued by your posts that say: WORK FOR SALE.If it’s a gallery the one…
100 days 100 galleries; Day 97: Two Art Gallery, Murcia Spain
Carlos Fentanes: And then I saw a brilliant number 6 in the horizon and realized that it was unreachable so I just watched it until it disappeared. The gallery didn’t answer. OK, this nonsense didn’t work I have to be more creative next time. The website of this gallery seems made by professionals but they…
100 days 100 galleries; Day 96: Davis Gallery, Austin TX
Carlos Fentanes: And then I saw a brilliant number 6 in the horizon and realized that it was unreachable so I just watched it until it disappeared. The gallery didn’t answer. Of curse they’re not going to answer, what is a possible answer to this nonsense. What is it mean? I don’t know I just…
100 days 100 galleries; Day 95: HOGALLERY, Vienna Austria
Carlos Fentanes: Your space has lovely proportions. I like those galleries with not too much things but artworks, it let you focus on the work of art. The gallery didn’t answer. Lovely proportions in a space? What does this even mean? It’s here when you talk about the golden ratio, the growing ratio in nature…
100 days 100 galleries; Day 94: Rarity Gallery, Mykonos Greece
Carlos Fentanes: What do you think about realism, photorealism and hyperrealism? Is there a market for these in Greece? Are you selling only in Greece or do you sell online too? The gallery didn’t answer. It is become a custom not to answer my messages so now, I can write about anything, it doesn’t matter,…
100 days 100 galleries; Day 93: The Cult House, London UK
The Cult House (TCH): Final week to apply!ALL MEDIAS accepted. You can apply up to 8 artworks. The exhibition will host 30 shortlisted artists and the 3 winning artists will have a 2nd exhibition at Blacks Club-Soho/London. And more, much more! All applicants will be offered a basic profile with The Cult House and a…
100 days 100 galleries; Day 92: Agora Gallery, New York NY
Carlos Fentanes: I saw your post about Elijah, what a miraculous journey. The paintings are wonderful. We need more of this. The gallery liked my comment. Sometimes you don’t need anymore than a like to continue with your project. Now I have a gallery in New York that shows live signals, I know that they’re…
100 days 100 galleries; Day 91: Soraya Cartategui Fine Art, Spain
Carlos Fentanes: Why Kaws artworks are so important? Sometimes I see them and looks like cartoons. The gallery didn’t answer. Is this a valid question? We have with him a world phenomenon, with sales everywhere, from clothes to Sotheby’s and biennials everywhere. Maybe there’s a part of me with a lot of envy and jealousy,…
100 days 100 galleries: Day 90: Night Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Carlos Fentanes: When I look at a painting, sometimes I also spend time looking how is framed, how it’s hanged, how the space can be transformed by an object. I would like to see more of your space, not only the artworks. The gallery didn’t answer. When you want to evaluate a situation, in Mexico…
100 days 100 galleries; Day 89: NIAD Art Center, Richmond CA
Carlos Fentanes: About redefining contemporary art, as your slogan said: I was thinking that there’s no way to redefine contemporary Art because every artist has its own definition of it, every time a contemporary Art is born there’s a new definition so redefining contemporary art is a truism. Nadia Center: Right. Except that we’re using…
100 days 100 galleries; Day 88: Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York NY
Carlos Fentanes: When I look at a painting, sometimes I also spend time looking how it is framed, how it’s hanged, how the space can be transformed by an object. I would like to see more of your space, not only the artworks. The gallery didn’t answer. OK, this is not going to work, I…
100 days 100 galleries; Day 87: White Rock Gallery, White Rock BC
Carlos Fentanes: When I look at a painting, sometimes I also spend time looking how it is framed, how it’s hanged, how the space can be transformed by an object. I would like to see more of your space, not only the artworks. The gallery didn’t answer. There are some galleries that I really want…
100 days 100 galleries; Day 86: Spazio Cordis, Verona Italy
Carlos Fentanes: Your last mosaic was a surprise. At the beginning I didn’t understand what was all about because none of the pieces make sense until you see them together. I don’t have in my feed such things as mosaics, you need a lot of planning to do that. Is it worked? The gallery didn’t…
100 days 100 galleries; Day 85: Gallery Henoch, New York NY
Carlos Fentanes: I love your posts, they are really focused on your artists, it seems that you’re proud of them, I like that but in the other hand you don’t publish anything about your space, how this wonderful Art works looks in a wall, with a frame. I would like to see more of your…
100 days 100 galleries; Day 84: Paradigm Gallery + Studio, Philadelphia PA
Carlos Fentanes: I saw your posts and I see happy artists and then I imagined happy customers.What are the duties of an art gallery if they not make Art connections between artists and the audience. It’s good to find a happy gallery. The gallery didn’t answer. It didn’t work. I was being totally sincere and…
100 days 100 galleries; Day 83: Galerie TON (Hyper)realistic Art, Rucphen Netherlands
Carlos Fentanes: When I look at a painting, sometimes I also spend time looking how it is framed, how it’s hanged, how the space can be transformed by an object. I would like to see more of your space, not only the artworks. The gallery didn’t answer. I was very interested in receive an answer…
100 days 100 galleries; Day 82: Bugera Matheson Gallery, Edmonton AB
Carlos Fentanes: When I look at a painting, sometimes I also spend time looking how it is framed, how it’s hanged, how the space can be transformed by an object. I would like to see more of your space, not only the artworks. Bugera Matheson Gallery: Feel free to give us a call and swing…
100 days 100 galleries; Day 81: Outsiders Gallery, Lyon France
Carlos Fentanes: Seeing graffiti art framed and properly hanged give it a twist in my conception of urban art and graffiti in general. It makes it serious art. I like what you’re doing.Congratulations! The gallery didn’t answer. I don’t see a reason why they don’t answer this one, is it too difficult to say thanks?…
100 days 100 galleries; Day 80: Mianki Gallery, Berlin Germany
Carlos Fentanes: Hello, I like your booth at POSITIONS, a good balance between sculpture, paintings and works on paper. The gallery likes my comment Well it’s better than nothing, at least I finally get a reaction from these German people: it’s really hard, believe me. So what’s next? Once you get a reaction from a…
100 days 100 galleries; Day 79: Galerie Z22, Berlin Germany
Carlos Fentanes: Hallo, ich habe deinen letzten Beitrag gesehen und sie erinnern sich an Musik von Serialisten wie Phillip Glass. Ich mag sie. The gallery didn’t answer In this occasion I tried to write in German but it didn’t work. I was trying to tell them that the works that they show in their gallery…
100 days 100 galleries; Day 78: Rice Polak Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Carlos Fentanes: I’ve seen your gallery through your posts, there are some artworks that are shown like a mosaic, or salon style. What’s better, the salon style or the classic gallery show? The gallery didn’t answer Yep, another gallery that doesn’t check their messages or if they did they didn’t bother to answer. After checking…
100 days 100 galleries; Day 77: Canadian Fine Arts, Yorkville ON
Carlos Fentanes: When I look at a painting, sometimes I also spend time looking how it is framed, how it’s hanged, how the space can be transformed by an object. I would like to see more of your space, not only the artworks. Canadian Fine Arts: Hi Carlos! Thank you for your suggestion 😊. We…
100 days 100 galleries; Day 76: James Barron Art, Kent CT
Carlos Fentanes: Spiritual Circle: Great Title. Do you think the spirituality can redeem the materiality? The gallery didn’t answer. Spiritual Circle is the title of the last show of Beverly Pepper in James Barron’s Project Space. That’s why the question that wasn’t answered yet, sometimes a gallery shows up a month after I sent the…
100 days 100 galleries; Day 75: Bermel Von Luxburg Gallery, Berlin Germany
Carlos Fentanes: What is the best way to get to your gallery? The gallery didn’t answer. I’m getting short of ideas, what should I ask? Would you want to meet a real artist? How galleries use their Social Media platform? Did they check their messages? How many messages they receive? In some of the galleries…
100 days 100 galleries; Day 74: Galerie Wolfsen, Tiendeladen Denmark
Carlos Fentanes: When I was younger I was thinking that Beauty was an intrinsic part of an Artwork,not anymore. But my question now is: what are the intrinsic characteristics of an artwork? is it Meditation? Intellectualeness? Social concerns?What do you think? The gallery didn’t answer. As an artist, when I think in my process and…
100 Days 100 Galleries; Day 73: K Contemporary, Denver CO
Carlos Fentanes: Are you really shared a space with another two galleries? Isn’t it hard to coordinate?Are the styles of the gallery different? The gallery didn’t answer. I know, this is a hard week, but it doesn’t hurt to answer a basic question. Yes, K contemporary shared a space with another two galleries in Denver…
100 days 100 galleries; Day 72: Jarmuschek + Partner Gallery, Berlin Germany
Carlos Fentanes: About your show at Position Berlin: What are the advantages and disadvantages of paper artworks? Are they cheaper? Easier to handle? Paper won’t last as much as a painting on canvas or am I wrong?So, what’s your arguments with paper? The gallery didn’t answer. Here we go again, no answer from a German…
100 days 100 galleries; Day 71: Forum Gallery, New York NY
Carlos Fentanes: I see that you mostly show realism. Are New Realism a reaction against AbEx as AbEx was in its moment a reaction against European schools? The gallery didn’t answer. This is a very difficult week, It is the starting of the new season after a long summer vacation, all the galleries are busy…
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