After many years outside of the London art buzz, I flew to London for the Frieze art fair, with intention to re engage in that old city of mine and make it into a working base again.
Before making the trip , I took a live coaching session with Marina Kurikhina. I trough that I could benefit from her expertise and opinions, from the other side of the art spectrum that of a dealer/gallerist/ curator and as of recently artist coach, to give me some advice on how best to use my limited time there.
The way the coaching for artists works is very simple, you arrange a time and date to meet up using live video trough the internet, and than you have a two hour session. Before your session Marina sends you a few questions to familiarize herself with your situation. And than you meet up and discuss. These sessions can be recorded and re played later which is useful .
Before our time together Marina sent me a few questions by email in order to familiarize herself with my situation and goals. During the session we aired many inter-connected topics. What I found useful , was the fact Marina made me focus on what I needed to realize, not in a vague way which I had planned, but rather to dig deeper and understand what is important for me to achieve, and work out flatt how to do it with a plan, rather than leaving it all to my intuition and being unprepared.
Probably the most important result of my coaching session, is the fact Marina with her eagles eye view on my practice, from the position of a professional who has worked with art and artists, pointed out an integral element of my practice I had disregarded for years, and give it the attention I need to. I have for years worked with performance, performance precedes every painting I produce, and yet I had neither documented this element nor valued it despite the fact I can not make paintings without it. It is easy to get immersed in ones art and not see the whole picture- there are so many elements we must think about, art practice, art development art production, livelihood form selling art, marketing of art. Essentially for years I had miss represented my self, my work , and I feel compromising all my project with this bad, devaluating attitude of my live per formative process, which is actually amazing and the very crux and reason why I make art .
Marina provided me with tons of useful tips and solutions, making little bridges between things I plan and their realization in an easy and factual way.
Its actually pretty awesome to be able to arrange a meeting like this with a professional whose opinion and taste one can trust, especially when you are an artist living outside the art world buzz places, and you do not have people who can advise you, or whose opinion you value, in your vicinity. This way not matter where you are- good advice is available on how to prep your work, presentation, practice, and be ready for the international scene even if you live in the provinces, or at the sea side as I do.
Before making the trip , I took a live coaching session with Marina Kurikhina. I trough that I could benefit from her expertise and opinions, from the other side of the art spectrum that of a dealer/gallerist/ curator and as of recently artist coach, to give me some advice on how best to use my limited time there.
The way the coaching for artists works is very simple, you arrange a time and date to meet up using live video trough the internet, and than you have a two hour session. Before your session Marina sends you a few questions to familiarize herself with your situation. And than you meet up and discuss. These sessions can be recorded and re played later which is useful .
Before our time together Marina sent me a few questions by email in order to familiarize herself with my situation and goals. During the session we aired many inter-connected topics. What I found useful , was the fact Marina made me focus on what I needed to realize, not in a vague way which I had planned, but rather to dig deeper and understand what is important for me to achieve, and work out flatt how to do it with a plan, rather than leaving it all to my intuition and being unprepared.
Probably the most important result of my coaching session, is the fact Marina with her eagles eye view on my practice, from the position of a professional who has worked with art and artists, pointed out an integral element of my practice I had disregarded for years, and give it the attention I need to. I have for years worked with performance, performance precedes every painting I produce, and yet I had neither documented this element nor valued it despite the fact I can not make paintings without it. It is easy to get immersed in ones art and not see the whole picture- there are so many elements we must think about, art practice, art development art production, livelihood form selling art, marketing of art. Essentially for years I had miss represented my self, my work , and I feel compromising all my project with this bad, devaluating attitude of my live per formative process, which is actually amazing and the very crux and reason why I make art .
Marina provided me with tons of useful tips and solutions, making little bridges between things I plan and their realization in an easy and factual way.
Its actually pretty awesome to be able to arrange a meeting like this with a professional whose opinion and taste one can trust, especially when you are an artist living outside the art world buzz places, and you do not have people who can advise you, or whose opinion you value, in your vicinity. This way not matter where you are- good advice is available on how to prep your work, presentation, practice, and be ready for the international scene even if you live in the provinces, or at the sea side as I do.
Sunčica Kuzmanić (Perišin-Tomljanović)
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