Ilya Maksimov, read an interview with a popular curator here on the site, he throws sent a portfolio of artists without looking. So, what you write it, has absolutely no value. Can not write anything at all.

There was a manual for collectors, типо those who collect bronze deer and antique painting that can be resold. Of course it is no contemporary art is not necessary.

Posav, why? there was a modern gallery owner, an actual art ..

Actual!? Maybe I did not carefully read. Then, типо, which has already entered history, Kosolapov, Komar and Melamid?? Otherwise, why throw sent portfolio without looking at the basket.

There are only three ways to interest-gallery
1. You are willing to pay a lot of money to exhibit in this gallery. Prices izvestny.Dobavte approximately 50%and the gallery will look at you are interested.
2. Your show in this gallery will attract a lot of spectators and media attention. You should be able to. By painting is irrelevant. This is called the PR advantages, or PR, the simple way.
Do not know how PR item deleted.
3. You can guarantee the gallery that your pictures will be snapping up like hot cakes, which will give Gallery a lot of money in the short term.
To do this you must be a history of sales here and there, at auction, major exhibitions, the Internet.

That's all.

For starters, you can search gallery that agrees to put a couple of works that leave the gallery itself.
That I had in mind as a beginner to make a solo exhibition.
And those who called, they themselves invited to the exhibition galleries for free. But once again, delivery, pick up - this is your expenses.
Buying a room is not worth it, it could devastate the purse of the artist.

In response to "There are only three ways to interest gallery ....."

This is not so. Gallery Gallery strife.
 If you would be such a "history of sales, then you have actually be able to choose the gallery themselves.
 Probably not all look work. But look, and even meet, and even agree to cooperate, if the artist's gallery is suitable (for work). What, of course, does not mean that everything goes like clockwork. Artists are very many and very many good and more convenient geographically and legally.
 I am convinced that the need to offer or something unique, but in line with the direction in which the gallery works, or exactly the opposite - very high quality and market-tested product. But anyway - it is a nice case, especially at first.

Marta, yes, adjust to the gallery, or find a gallery that deals with precisely the same painting as you do - is an option, but a slow, painful and, in fact, lead to nowhere, nowhere. Well, they sell two of your work, or take away two from you that neither cold nor hot. That you not promoted as an artist. There are 100 people of the same.
T e do not understand why do it? If for the sake of money, it is better to trade shoes and run in a thread place.

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Posav, al you think that money is not exposed. Even as exhibited. All CHA is for money. I saw the exhibition, called, "Well, I wanted to (my dad, husband, wife, etc.) and now pay-put!" And this is normal. Gallery - is a business.

Do not confuse the entertaining game of "Ya-artist! and the real art business.

Spasibo, ochen 'horoshii sovet. Vy pravy, neobhodim simbioz galerei i hudoznika, bez etogo nachinaiutsia metaniia.

V plane oplaty vy toze pravy. Rabota professionala dolzna byt 'oplachena.

I sovershenno zamechatel'no zametili - time is more valuable than money.

Mozno pol zizni provesti v bespoleznyh iskaniiah.

Good day! Finally I found a forum where you can read interesting views and arguments of artists and art dealers.
Yes, questions and answers a lot of promotion, there is something to think about ...
And what to do when a legacy is not an artist but a few?
I have a legacy of my grandmother and two grandfathers. Grandmother - Konopatskaya Galina - schedule, studied at the Institute of Fine Arts. Surikov in the graphical department. Her husband - Avgustovich Alexei Ivanovich - studied there too, but the scenic department. They have a very difficult there was destiny, Avgustovich was in captivity, and after the war had gone with his family in Dagestan, where he remained alive. Another one of my grandfather - Vasily Kolesnikov - self-taught, a native of Kizlyar. In Dagestan, a well-known and recognized artists but for his altars, few of them knew that I was very upset, because I believe that the artistic merit, not only within the republic.
All three are no longer alive, but the legacy remains.
In addition, parents and my two sisters also artists, so it is difficult not to get confused where to start ...
Previously, I was pulling, I knew that when something'll do it, but I felt that the time has not come. Then he moved to live in Moscow, and where a year ago, it dawned on me that it was time to take up this matter, and where to begin I do not know.
Auction stories has neither any, in the gallery while I was also not addressed. You can certainly start to try and this and that, but I want to build a precise plan for promotion, I know that in Moscow it is very difficult not to get burned by this I ask your advice as I do and what you think of my family works.
This site:
www.mastirka.ru
Thank you in advance for your answers!