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%.
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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 .
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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.
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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…
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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 -
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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
I received the same today. I’ve been goggling them and there are reports of paintings not being returned. Beware.