International carriers, Caution! please

I am about to relate a tale, a tale that revolves around the life of an artist, and a huge multinational transport giant. In the first instance, the artist who resides in Spain arranged with his representing gallery in the USA to take part in an exhibition of his work, the date for the exhibition Vernissage was to be 28th May, 2010 running until August 15th. The artist now had a plan, and a space in a gallery to show his [...]

Talking about Creativity: Rodin, Cellini and Picasso

Creativity is the ability to generate innovative ideas and manifest them from thought into reality. The process involves original thinking and then producing. The process of creation was historically reserved for deities creating “from nothing” in Creationism and other creation myths. Over time, the term creativity came to include human innovation, especially in art and science and led to the emergence of the creative class. [from Wikipedia] Creativity is like sex. You fumble your way through, you get lost in [...]

Commercial Galleries

After more than twenty years of vocational art, and more than a decade of working with international commercial galleries, I will be resigning from this form of representation. I will, of course fore fill all professional commitments, and complete the exhibitions which are now running, and those which are planned for later this year. I am currently represented by galleries in New york, and Connecticut in the USA, Antwerp Belgium, Dublin Eire, Omagh,and Belfast Northern Ireland, and Sussex, in the UK, I have recently terminated with galleries in Bressuire, [...]

Yeah, We killed the golden goose

I read recently of someone having a pop at Damien Hirst because he is laying off staff, the same article refers to “Sliced up cows”, it states how much money Hirst has supposedly to have made from such, another article tells us about his plans for his own gallery in Hyde park. My take on all this is as follows, Multinationals with very deep pockets are always laying people off, no one can, or wants to “Keep paying” when the in coming [...]

Did Duchamp was a quack? What about contemporary artists?

How an artist can consider his masterpiece an object that he even produced? For me, Duchamp was a quack, but I forgot one thing: the historical context!