art market
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 44: Beers London, London UK
Carlos Fentanes (CF): I saw your post about Edward, it’s very interesting. How do you find him? What’s his story? Beers London (BL): Thank you.A collector friend of the gallery spent time with him.We thought it might be good for next year. It’s seems that talk about what passionate them works and I also learn…
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100 day 100 galleries; Day 43: Dacia Gallery, New York NY
Carlos Fentanes (CF): What is special about David Scoven? I have seen just a few posts from your gallery and he reminded me Robert Mapplethorpe, some kind of intimacy and solitude. I didn’t receive any answer. Sometimes I have to remind myself that I’m doing this to find out how to communicate with an Art…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 42; Thinkspace Art Gallery, Culver City, CA
Carlos Fentanes (CF): Can you name your top five favorite artists of your gallery and your top five works of art? They didn’t answer. It is always harder to get an answer from galleries in big cities and that’s the case with this gallery in LA area, maybe they’re busier than galleries in small cities;…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 41: Jen Tough Gallery, California
Carlos Fentanes (CF): I don’t know if it’s just me but your gallery seems a very joyful place, I would like to be there and just stay. Jen Tough Gallery (JT): Thank you! Carlos Fentanes (CF): It’s like no other gallery: the fountain, the garden, the brick wall. The other galleries are cold. And I…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 40: Absolute Art Gallery, Belgium
Carlos Fentanes (CF): I like your name: Absolute.Absolute marvelous They never answer. I’m trying to engage a conversation talking about something it’s important to them or at least something that I thought is important but this time didn’t work. I know August is a difficult month on Europe, is when everybody take vacations. But anyway,…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 39: Arts Illiana Gallery, Terre Haute IN
Carlos Fentanes (CF): Hello, I have been following you for a while and I don’t understand pretty well how you work. Is it a commercial gallery or a nonprofit organization or something in the middle? Arts Illiana (AI): Arts Illiana is a not for profit arts organization dedicated to promoting all of the arts in…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 38: Quidley and Co., Nantucket MA, Naples, FL, Westport CT
Carlos Fentanes (CF): How do you handle to control three galleries in very different cities with very different tastes?Does it become like franchises?Like McDonald’s? How do you keep quality versus quantity? Obviously the gallery didn’t answer. I have a bad feeling about this post, my wife asked me in the morning why I am so…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 36: Luhring Augustine, New York NY
Carlos Fentanes (CF): With so many galleries in NYC how difficult is to have a notorious presence and have a part of the market? Luhring Augustine (LA): nothing After 36 days I’m noticing that I started to be repetitive, pretty much the same question with the same no answer at all. How can I avoid…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 35: Galeria Contempo, Trento Italy
Carlos Fentanes (CF): Isn’t it a disadvantage being away from a big city?Don’t you think it’ll be better for the gallery to have a place in Florence or Milano?When you are in a small city you have to start teaching the people about Contemporary Art before selling art. What do you think? Galleria Contempo (GC):…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 34: Galerie Cyril Guernieri, Paris
Carlos Fentanes (CF): Your gallery is so small, A small space for great art.How do you manage to get people inside? Do they take turns? I don’t know if it’s true cause I’ve never been there but in the photos it seems very tiny, judge by yourselves. It was a very serious question but I…
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