exhibitionism
hi all
as a few of you know I was finishing producing an exhibition in an art gallery in Paris' soho/chelsea.Finally the prints are hung on the walls and people can "enjoy" ;) twelve pics, from 40x30 cm to 60x50.The maximum , the very , very maximum I could get from a konica A200 and a 2ghz imac: dont look at the prints from too close, please.
for all the users who wish they could be a.......NARTIST , and therefore wanna know more.
In most contemporary art galleries, you have to pay a big fee to exhibit: it's like renting the walls.Only cheap galleries with cheap art or top notch ones with top selling art dont ask for a fee.Otherwise be lucky and find a mentor or something ;)
the word "artist" doesn't seem to mean the same thing in english and in french: we wouldn't say "I'm a digital artist" if my work consists in taking orders.My experience of "artistry" was fucking full of pain :D You invest most of your energy, anxiety, time, money to produce the exhibition: get the right hardware if you dont have it, get ideas, take pics to make the pics, make them, realize they suck, make others, get them printed.
High definition pics were a pain to work on, too little is possible with limited hardware and time constrains, as well as creative constrains of course.
So you start thinking "wow an exhibition Imma make kickass pics" , and then you find yourself shamefull presenting your work in the gallery, not believing you actually were able to print and produce that exhibition of mmm ......average quality pics :p
sometimes bad, well
they sell from 400$ to 700$.If I got to work on high definition scans from a traditional cam I could have produced much better quality, and larger, therefore sell much much more, because format is everything for artists that are not famous.I mean as famous as Picasso or Basquiat.But big pics mean big work, big prints, big frame, big risk.better rely on several smaller ones.
So: be an artist ? hahaha sure, but where's the money ? oh, I got it, you may get applaused instead .
I get it now, shit :p
Anyhow, those who want to see more go here :
www.galerielee.com and then artists/nicolas houllet
