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100 days 100 galleries; Day 48: Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin Germany
Carlos Fentanes (CF): Matt Mullican’s installation amazed me, at the beginning I didn’t understand quite well the scale and proportions of the banners. I wish I could visit your gallery to see the show. Galerie Thomas Schulte (TS): Thank you very much! The banners were on display at the Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin in 1995 and…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 44: Beers London, London UK
Carlos Fentanes (CF): I saw your post about Edward, it’s very interesting. How do you find him? What’s his story? Beers London (BL): Thank you.A collector friend of the gallery spent time with him.We thought it might be good for next year. It’s seems that talk about what passionate them works and I also learn…
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100 day 100 galleries; Day 43: Dacia Gallery, New York NY
Carlos Fentanes (CF): What is special about David Scoven? I have seen just a few posts from your gallery and he reminded me Robert Mapplethorpe, some kind of intimacy and solitude. I didn’t receive any answer. Sometimes I have to remind myself that I’m doing this to find out how to communicate with an Art…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 42; Thinkspace Art Gallery, Culver City, CA
Carlos Fentanes (CF): Can you name your top five favorite artists of your gallery and your top five works of art? They didn’t answer. It is always harder to get an answer from galleries in big cities and that’s the case with this gallery in LA area, maybe they’re busier than galleries in small cities;…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 41: Jen Tough Gallery, California
Carlos Fentanes (CF): I don’t know if it’s just me but your gallery seems a very joyful place, I would like to be there and just stay. Jen Tough Gallery (JT): Thank you! Carlos Fentanes (CF): It’s like no other gallery: the fountain, the garden, the brick wall. The other galleries are cold. And I…
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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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100 days 100 galleries; Day 33: Coastal Contemporary Gallery, Newport RI
Carlos Fentanes (CF): I have been following you for a while and I always find your site a source of inspiration. Your artists are very good. I’m going to tell you a secret: in the future I’m going to be part of your artists, not yet but I’m getting closer.Regards Coastal Contemporary (CC): Thank you…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 32: Banditto Gallery, Tuscany Italy
Carlos Fentanes (CF): I received an invitation from Keri James about the Banditto Residency Prize. Then I tried to do some research and I couldn’t verify anything, nor the owner of the gallery, the place is for rent in Airbnb but there’s no reviews. Everything seems a scam.And then I found some comments on Facebook.Who…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 31: Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, Montreal QC
Carlos Fentanes (CF): “Fosters the practice of 14 artists.” Why 14 artists, why not 15? or 13? Exclusively just them? Isn’t it boring? How do choose them? They seem very different between them. The gallery didn’t anwer. In their Instagram page they say: “Foster the practices of 14 artists / Expand theoretical discourses / Interdisciplinary”…
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