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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…
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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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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…
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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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