contemporary art
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This is not a drill
Conversations with Virgin Mary “You should wait until I arrive. This task is hard for one person,” I tell Jorge as I watch him halfway up a ladder, a drill in his right hand, balancing. “I waited for you,” he says without turning. “You said five. It’s almost six-thirty.” “I sent you a message. Didn’t…
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Ethics and Art: A Tale of Social Media Woes
Ethics, the elusive butterfly of the modern age. What is it, and how does it impact us? More importantly, how does it mess with my work as an artist? This concept is as abstract as a DeKooning painting and just as slippery. You can’t grab it and hold onto it for long; it’s free-spirited and…
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Murder at Tiktok Street
Last year, popular local artist, Jane Doe, had it all: a growing TikTok following, a successful art business, and a bright future. But when one of her videos is flagged and removed by the platform, her account is shadowbanned, and her following stagnates. Frustrated and resentful, Jane becomes increasingly vocal in her criticism of the…
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What Is an Ex-Voto?
So, I was invited for an exhibition next summer with the theme: Contemporary Ex-Votos and I have to send an image by February 12 in order to be included in the catalog. But what is an Ex-Voto and what is its relevance? According to Wikipedia : An ex-voto is a votive offering to a saint or to a divinity; the term is…
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I started this drawing as an exercise in a Facebook group, we have to draw an ordinary object, I choose a kitchen cloth from IKEA and with this I started a conversation with the drawing and it began to get a meaning and a self identity. Jasper Johns back in the sixties created a series…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 71: Forum Gallery, New York NY
Carlos Fentanes: I see that you mostly show realism. Are New Realism a reaction against AbEx as AbEx was in its moment a reaction against European schools? The gallery didn’t answer. This is a very difficult week, It is the starting of the new season after a long summer vacation, all the galleries are busy…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 56: Galerie Poll, Berlin Germany
Carlos Fentanes: Are you happy?I saw your last post and seems pretty sad and then the question: are you happy? I want to know more about this. The gallery didn’t answer. Another try with German galleries, another fail. I still don’t know how to contact a European gallery and Germans seems the most difficult galleries…
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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 11: Galerie EIGEN + ART, Leipzig & Berlin Germany
Me (Carlos Fentanes): Hello,Can I ask you about your beginning? How did you started? Did you rent a local or use your own place? Who where your first artists? Are they still with you? How did you recruit your first artists? How do you do it now? What is what you see in an artist?…
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