Art
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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…
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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…
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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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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…
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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?…
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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…
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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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