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100 days 100 galleries; Day 29: Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland ME
Carlos Fentanes (CF): Sky, lakes, clouds, some urban landscape…I can see this type of art in the North against South that is more figurative and the big cities that are prone to Abstract Art and Conceptual Art.Have you ever think about this? What are the factors? Weather? Education? Values? Dowling Walsh Gallery (DWG): nothing Another…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 28: Capitain Petzel, Berlin Germany
Carlos Fentanes (CF): I saw your article about Stephanie Heinze and it was amazing. Her work, to said the less is intriguing, the article talked about it as Abstract Expresionism but I saw figures on it, it’s not totally abstract in that sense. How would you call it? Capitain Petzel (CP): Thank you for the…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 27: Plus One Gallery, London UK
Carlos Fentanes (CF): In this era of ready made and Pop Art why choose Hyperrealism?It seems that Hyperrealism is the opposite of this modern times, now everything has to be made as fast as possible. Plus One Gallery (POG): (nothing) Yes, I think that now everything has to be made as fast and possible and…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 23: Michael Reid Contemporary Art Gallery, Sydney Australia
Carlos Fentanes (CF): There’s a strong relationship with nature in your artists. It’s almost a mainstream. Michael Reid Gallery (MR): (empty) Can somebody tell them that they have to respond their messages? even a like is OK. Why is so hard to say thanks? If you’re a gallery and you have a website and you…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 22: Franklin Bowles Galleries, San Francisco & New York
Carlos Fentanes (CF): I saw some photos of your newest exhibition: Natural Curiosities. The artists seem so different between them but the exhibition is so harmonic. What’s the common point? Franklin Bowles (FB): nothing Sadly not answering is the most common reaction from galleries, here’s another example. Today I walked my dog in the morning,…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 20: Galería Fernando Pradilla, Madrid Spain
Carlos Fentanes (CF): Hello, I have a blog about galleries and their relationship with artists and I want to feature yous gallery, as an introduction how do you describe your gallery? Galería Fernando Pradilla (GFP): nothing That was a translation, I wrote it in Spanish in part because the gallery is in Spain and in…
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100 days 100 galleries; day 15: Galleri Skandinavia, Stockholm Sweden
Carlos Fentanes (CF): I saw in your catalog works than go from realism to pop passing through figurative painting. How did you come to this mix of works? Gallery: silent This time it didn’t work, maybe they don’t understand English, maybe they don’t want to answer, maybe they don’t see their messages. I have seen…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 13: The Leyton Gallery of Fine Art, St. John’s NL
Me (CF): I see that you have a good group of artists under your umbrella. How do you started? How were your firsts steps as an art gallery? Leyton Gallery (LG): Bonnie Leyton, the owner, saw a lot of young talented people who were not being given a chance at other commercial galleries. She took…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 11: Galerie EIGEN + ART, Leipzig & Berlin Germany
Me (Carlos Fentanes): Hello,Can I ask you about your beginning? How did you started? Did you rent a local or use your own place? Who where your first artists? Are they still with you? How did you recruit your first artists? How do you do it now? What is what you see in an artist?…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 9: Erika Gofton, Director of the Art Room Footscray, Melbourne
Why it’s so difficult to show my work in a gallery? Why the system is so closed that it’s almost impossible to break inside their barriers? I’m in a quest to figure out how the system works and I have a plan: I’m going to ask them directly during 100 days. Are they going to…
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