Art Gallery
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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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Marketing 101 for Artists
OK, let me try to explain what I am doing now with my Instagram account and other social networks. My ultimate goal would be being represented by two or three galleries across North America and Europe, basically I have been working only with 33 contemporary and PoetsArtists in Chicago and in the last three years…
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Art Submissions
I’ve just clicked the submit button. It’s the 21st time on this year, 3 submissions per month, one every 10 days. Results? Nothing, niente, nada, in the best cases it’s just a rejection letter, in half of the submissions I didn’t receive anything, sometimes I found out the results on social media. I haven’t been…
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Art Credit
Can you imagine the perfect world where every human can help each other and don’t try to take advantage of the situation? No negotiation or bargain, just yes or no about buying a service or a product? In a perfect world you don’t even need money to make a transaction, everybody will have “credit”, from…
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How to sell your Art on Instagram
Last year she was a starving artist working as a waitress and living from tips in a moldy basement and now she’s a successful artist with more than a million followers and showing her work in the main galleries of New York, London and Hong Kong, her work has been auctioned for more than a…
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The Naming of Artworks
One of the first songs in the musical Cats from Lloyd Webber is about the Naming of Cats, a difficult matter indeed. Right now, I have a difficult time trying to name a work of art and I remembered that poem of T S Eliot that Lloyd Weber took for his musical, I’m going to…
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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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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…
Carlos Fentanes 