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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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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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100 days 100 galleries; Day 97: Two Art Gallery, Murcia Spain
Carlos Fentanes: And then I saw a brilliant number 6 in the horizon and realized that it was unreachable so I just watched it until it disappeared. The gallery didn’t answer. OK, this nonsense didn’t work I have to be more creative next time. The website of this gallery seems made by professionals but they…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 96: Davis Gallery, Austin TX
Carlos Fentanes: And then I saw a brilliant number 6 in the horizon and realized that it was unreachable so I just watched it until it disappeared. The gallery didn’t answer. Of curse they’re not going to answer, what is a possible answer to this nonsense. What is it mean? I don’t know I just…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 95: HOGALLERY, Vienna Austria
Carlos Fentanes: Your space has lovely proportions. I like those galleries with not too much things but artworks, it let you focus on the work of art. The gallery didn’t answer. Lovely proportions in a space? What does this even mean? It’s here when you talk about the golden ratio, the growing ratio in nature…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 88: Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York NY
Carlos Fentanes: When I look at a painting, sometimes I also spend time looking how it is framed, how it’s hanged, how the space can be transformed by an object. I would like to see more of your space, not only the artworks. The gallery didn’t answer. OK, this is not going to work, I…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 86: Spazio Cordis, Verona Italy
Carlos Fentanes: Your last mosaic was a surprise. At the beginning I didn’t understand what was all about because none of the pieces make sense until you see them together. I don’t have in my feed such things as mosaics, you need a lot of planning to do that. Is it worked? The gallery didn’t…
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