Ethics
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What is the meaning of an artwork?
Is this a serious question? Are you really want to know the “meaning”? Are you prepared to carry the weight of that? Many artists and art critics recommend not even ask this question because it’s a way of confessing your ignorance about art and life in general but is it a valid question at all?…
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Art collectors and Art scammers
I receive a letter, it was a very suspicious letter about my art and I want to share it with you, here it is, including names: Johnson Moore <johnsonmre4222@gmail.com> My name is Johnson Moore, from Washington, DC city I have been on the lookout for some artworks lately in regards to I and my wife’s anniversary…
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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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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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Losing my religion
Art for me is a quest about questioning my environment: my culture and within it, Religion, Spirituality, Politics, Beauty… I am who I am because of my culture, I mean, all this baggage that I carry from my ancestors, my homeland, my friends and family… But why is so important? Can I avoid it? Is…
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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 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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