Art
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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 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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100 days 100 galleries; Day 29: Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland ME
Carlos Fentanes (CF): Sky, lakes, clouds, some urban landscape…I can see this type of art in the North against South that is more figurative and the big cities that are prone to Abstract Art and Conceptual Art.Have you ever think about this? What are the factors? Weather? Education? Values? Dowling Walsh Gallery (DWG): nothing Another…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 28: Capitain Petzel, Berlin Germany
Carlos Fentanes (CF): I saw your article about Stephanie Heinze and it was amazing. Her work, to said the less is intriguing, the article talked about it as Abstract Expresionism but I saw figures on it, it’s not totally abstract in that sense. How would you call it? Capitain Petzel (CP): Thank you for the…
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