Art
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Would you give booze to an alcoholic?
My name is Carlos, and I am artist. I have seen some movies and read novels about AA meetings and it seems that they start introducing themselves and acknowledging that they are addicts. Being an artist is a kind of addiction? Sometimes I found myself at the stationary department at the superstore buying pens even…
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Losing my religion
Art for me is a quest about questioning my environment: my culture and within it, Religion, Spirituality, Politics, Beauty… I am who I am because of my culture, I mean, all this baggage that I carry from my ancestors, my homeland, my friends and family… But why is so important? Can I avoid it? Is…
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Inspiration or Plagiarism?
“La Poesía no es de quien la escribe, es de quien la necesita.”(Poetry is not from who writes it, it is from who needs it)El Cartero de Neruda, Antonio Skármeta What is the purpose of art? Why we make art? I said in a previous post that Art is a kind of tool for better read a problem or a…
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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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Flag (After Jasper Johns)
I took this photograph a few days ago and I didn’t know what to do with it, I just loved the way the light bath the cloth and instinctively I shoot it. A few days later in one of my Facebook groups ask us to make an art project using an ordinary object from our…
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Do you want to draw with me?
Since the beginning of this year I had the idea of upload a drawing course, but the idea of filming and talk in public is hard to take for me now, maybe in the future. but that shouldn’t be an obstacle to start something, so why not start it as a blog? So why don’t…
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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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Another rejected letter from another Art Gallery
Hello, Thank you for submitting to The Gathered Gallery. We appreciate the time and effort it takes to submit an application.The programming for the coming months has been completed and we regret to inform you that we are unable to feature you at this time. You are welcome to reapply for future programming opportunities.Thank you for your…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 100: Gagosian
Carlos Fentanes: Don’t you see? the fire is not in London, nor NYC, not even Hong Kong. The fire is inside you and also inside me. The gallery didn’t answer. If you have the opportunity to ask something to Larry Gagosian, what would it be? “Hey, do you want to take a look at my…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 99: White Cube, London and Hong Kong
Carlos Fentanes: Hello, I’m painter, I’m poet and writer but more importantly I’m a thinker. You’ll see in the future.Regards The gallery didn’t answer. I know, they’re out of my league so I didn’t mind to write any kind of message, actually I didn’t ask for an opportunity or reviewing my portfolio. The question here…
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