PAKS Gallery and MAMAG Museum invite to exhibit at Cannes Film Festival, Art Basel Week and Carrousel du Louvre
I recently received an email from the curator Heinz Playner telling me their curator team was impressed by my work. They sent an invitation and an offer to exhibit my art in 2022 at the MAMAG Modern Art Museum in Austria. Also that the Paks gallery would like to represent me and an offer to participate in the International Fine Biennale Basel, ART BASEL ART WEEK IN 2023, ALSO THE CANNES fILM fESTIVAL, and also in the Carrousel du Louvre. Has anyone been involved with the PAKS Gallery in Vienna or the MAMAG Museum with such an offer? What was your experience? Is this a good oportunity. There are fees involved to participate at these events but the gallery would be responsible for transporting them to these sites and back to Paks gallery with a years representation. The Museum would only take 20% commision on paintings sold and the artist gets 80%.
15 comments
-
-
Anonymous
I regularly get invitations haven’t blocked this try hard yet. Even his famous people are shallow famous. The guy only has two jackets must be a con. I went to google street view of the alleged galleries. Only one place has a sign the others look like residential buildings. Even the one with the sign has what looks like a fortified gate for clients to get through, if there is any such thing. Con, con, con by the look of it. Put your money into art supplies.
-
Anonymous
As an artist with a 40+ year practice, these phishermen, like Playner disgust me, as do those scammers who try to “buy” artworks that they urge you to convert to NFT’s. If they BELIEVE in your work, and have the foundation of real transparent support for the creative makers, NOT the short term profit,NOT the superficial photos proving his being a slave to the ego-driven cult of celebrity, then their entreaties to you to be part of his non-existent stable, then the RISK should be his/the galleries’– NOT the artist. I am all for artists making a living off of their work. But for most of it, I have to ask how does it contribute to the larger canon of contemporary work? If it is another attempt at Impressionism (1860 to 1886), Abstract Expressionism (late 1940’s-1950’s), then, it is fine for the artist to explore, but it is an “also ran” and mostly is to fuel that individual artist’s urges to paint. It is not “contemporary” in any way that any serious curator could help. It would be about just aping (and through elaborate scams) to emulate a profit driven search for the high prices of those DEAD artists from different centuries. Like so many things it is about greed, ego, audacity, and preying (using media hype) on the naive. It is a sad indictment of the substance less times of a vapid culture where a fake leader/liar/misogynist/criminal’s lack of values and support of the “greed is good” mantra countermands all that creativity tries to illuminate humanity with.
-
-
Anonymous
Hahaha am glad that others out here have suspected a scam. The art is wanna-be artist ‘art’, the chief curator grinning cheesily with ‘important’ people isn’t convincing and the cost is so effing high that one wonders who the f*** can afford to send any kind of work to these places. BEWARE…or as they say in the Asterix books: CAVEAT EMPTOR.
-
Anonymous
I received the same today. I’ve been goggling them and there are reports of paintings not being returned. Beware.
-
Anonymous
My husband is an artist. I work with him taking care of communication, finding galleries, art fairs, biennales etc. He was also contacted by Heinz Playner. It’s a vanity Gallery and nothing more. They do not actually have a stand at the Art Basel Fair, nor at the Cannes Film festival, nor at the Carousel du Louvre. They expose in hôtel conférence rooms nearby, while these events are happening .
-
-
-
Anonymous
I too, have received at least 4 initiations in the last 4 weeks. The price is way too high and there is no visible human contact on the email.
-
Anonymous
I have been Googling him also after receiving an email…check this out…https://www.artavita.com/artists/12826-milo – look at the description below the first painting – it explains how Heinz kept 3 of his paintings…
-
Anonymous
Yep… It looks like a, “pay to play’ gallery or exhibition. For the lst 15 years I’ve been making a living selling my paintings at over 400 show and fairs. I participated in the Florence Biennale
in 2007. No one sold ANYTHING ! IT WAS MORE OF AN ARTIST CONVENTION. The promoters made $. The artists were like tools. I have it on my resume , International Art Show , and it was a nice and expensive vacation. DS -
-
Anonymous
I also get their invitation. The website doesn’t show any addresses, there are no links to the artists work, the curator presents no curriculum and no names of staff.
-
Anonymous
Recently I received the same email… I dont know anything about it, but it seems doesnt have a curatorial work, but, if you have money to pay you are there… If its a good chance? I dont know, I didn’t go ahead with this dubious proposal…
-
Anonymous
I used to get those mails on a regular basis. Very expensive + you have to pay almost a year in advance. Plus the arts that I saw on their portfolios and pictures looked quite amateurish. It looks to me that anyone who can afford to pay in order to call himself an “artists” can go there. Money talks and….walks. Doesn’t look like anyone curates, as long as you can pay…
-
Anonymous
I have also received the same email from Paks with the same offer. They send me one every year. I have not her participated as it’s expensive. I noticed their Instagram page @paksgallery does not highlight any sales or much engagement and work of low quality like Faeries and pixies.
Anonymous
THanks for these helpful responses. It’s disappointing, but I’m glad to know.