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100 days 100 galleries; Day 40: Absolute Art Gallery, Belgium
Carlos Fentanes (CF): I like your name: Absolute.Absolute marvelous They never answer. I’m trying to engage a conversation talking about something it’s important to them or at least something that I thought is important but this time didn’t work. I know August is a difficult month on Europe, is when everybody take vacations. But anyway,…
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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 37: Hashimoto Contemporary, New York and San Francisco
Carlos Fentanes (CF): You are one of the most popular galleries on social media.When I think on Hashimoto I don’t think at a local or a gallery in San Francisco but in your presence on social media: Instagram or Tumblr. Are your online sales also bigger than at your gallery? Hashimoto Contemporary (HC): Thanks for…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 36: Luhring Augustine, New York NY
Carlos Fentanes (CF): With so many galleries in NYC how difficult is to have a notorious presence and have a part of the market? Luhring Augustine (LA): nothing After 36 days I’m noticing that I started to be repetitive, pretty much the same question with the same no answer at all. How can I avoid…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 35: Galeria Contempo, Trento Italy
Carlos Fentanes (CF): Isn’t it a disadvantage being away from a big city?Don’t you think it’ll be better for the gallery to have a place in Florence or Milano?When you are in a small city you have to start teaching the people about Contemporary Art before selling art. What do you think? Galleria Contempo (GC):…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 34: Galerie Cyril Guernieri, Paris
Carlos Fentanes (CF): Your gallery is so small, A small space for great art.How do you manage to get people inside? Do they take turns? I don’t know if it’s true cause I’ve never been there but in the photos it seems very tiny, judge by yourselves. It was a very serious question but I…
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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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