Art price and value
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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