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Countdown: 65 days until delivering my next painting.
After my 100 days project something change inside me, I was the same but at the same time I feel that I have more control on what I am doing as an artist, and little by little I started to participate in art shows here in Canada and in the USA. I moved to Toronto…
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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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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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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…
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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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Galleria Banditto: a scam?
You never knew what post is going to grab the attention of some group in your audience. This was the case of Galleria Banditto: I started to receive mails and DMs about the residency price of this gallery, they asked me about my experience and my results but also if this was a real prize…
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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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