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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 19: Eckert Fine Art, Kent, CT
Carlos Fentanes (CF): Hello,I have a blog about art galleries and their relationship with their artists. I want to feature your gallery in my blog.How do you describe your gallery as an introduction? Eckert Fine Art (EFA): nothing Should I start with something more friendly, less scary? Did I said something wrong? It seems that…
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100 days 100 Galleries; Day 18: Reiter Galleries, Berlin
Carlos Fentanes (CF): Hello,I have a blog about galleries and their relationship with artists, I want to feature you gallery.How do yo describe the gallery as a way of introduction? Reiter Galleries (RG): nothing This is more complicated each day, I don’t like to introduce myself as a blogger; I’m an artist, I do not…
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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 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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100 days 100 galleries; Day 5: The Gallery / Art Placement, Saskatoon, SK
Me: Those pieces are beautiful by themselves and no need of anything else but I feel as if they were hanged too low? Is it just me? Gallery: *… A gallery in my hometown, this time I decided to comment something about its current exhibition, about its museography. Yes, I feel that they hanged the…
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Fifty ways not to approach to an art gallery.
Yes, you read well, maybe I do not know how to approach to a gallery to show my work but I’m an expert in failing at that. I have so many experiences in being rejected by a gallery that I can write a book about it. Why it’s so difficult to show my work in…
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To porn or not to porn
Not long time ago Facebook put a warning to a friend’s wall because he posted “inadequate content”. I remember that his account was freeze for 24 hours or so and they ask him no to publish “inadequate content” again, if so, he will be banned from Facebook. Facebook refers to “Inadequate content” to that that won’t complain…
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