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âDonât try to push it.â Swiss artist Not Vital, best known for his sculptures and architectonic installations worldwide, shares his advice with emerging artists.
When Not Vital started selling his art as a young artist in New York City, the most memorable advice he got was a practical one from his father, who was not an artist: âI remember, very early on, someone came to the studio to buy a drawing. And then I put up like lots of drawings for this person to choose from. And then my father said: âYou should not have more than five drawings.â Because how can someone choose from more than five works?â Vital says and continues: âDonât try to push it. Even though, if youâre hungry, donât say that youâre hungry or donât say that you need to pay rent. No. Because otherwise, out of sympathy, itâs not going to happen.â
Still, Not Vital recognises that he and his peersâ circumstances in New York in the 1970s and 1980s are different: âWe were maybe in an easier situation than now. Because now there are more artists and everyone wants to succeed immediately,â Vital explains and elaborates: âTake your time and not just immediately try to be successful. That either comes, or it doesnât come.â
Not Vital (b. 1948) is a Swiss artist who works in diverse media across installations, paintings, drawings, and sculptures, typically integrating architecture. Vital divides his time between the U.S., Niger, Italy, China and Switzerland, and his art is centred on personal impressions and experiences from around the world. This somewhat anthropological approach is also reflected in how his career is structured into sections, e.g., glass blowers in Murano or paper artists in Bhutan. Vitalâs work has been featured in the 49th Venice Biennale in Italy (2001), and he has held significant exhibitions at prominent venues such as the Kunsthalle Bielefeld in Germany (2005), The Arts Club of Chicago in the U.S. (2006), Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, China (2011), the Museo dâarte di Mendrisio in Switzerland (2014-15) and Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London (2021).
Roxanne Bagheshirin LĂŚrkesen interviewed Not Vital at his studio in Sent, Switzerland, in August 2021.
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Produced and edited by: Roxanne Bagheshirin LĂŚrkesen
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Artists are amongst the most brave. We deal daily with self assessment, failure, sharing our most inner world and also hoping we get paid for it..we are vulnerable yet brave. .
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It's hard to put into words what makes a "successful" career. You can tell he feels a little out of touch. He remembers the New York art scene, for pete's sake. Times are so different now, but just like then the basic idea holds true, which is long careers only come with time working on your craft. Many artists that are successful today because they went viral or blew up at Art Basel or some blue chip gallery won't be around at his age. Because it takes that much time to build a well established career. And to try and reverse engineer that success in a short time frame is a big waste of energy. Not only that, but your work will only reflect the desperation of trying to "make it". The same happens in other artistic careers: writers, musicians, actors, they all struggle after finding early fame and trying to keep it. Play the long game.
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Never let them see you bleed. It's the law of the herd as the weak fall to prey. As artists, we can't put guilt on a buyer or obligation to buy. People want positive interactions, memories and to invest in winners not whiners. Make art because you enjoy doing it without any expectation of buyers. The poor me attitude will not take you far creatively speaking nor with collectors, it's a weak mind set and isn't attractive. Just because you make art doesn't mean you will derive an income from it nor that you are entitled too. This wounded animal victim hood attitude doesn't go far in circles of successful people. That is the weak one I am referring to. Welcome to the jungle.
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10 tips I'd have gave to my join self
1. Have a day job that pays your bills and puts the pressure out of your art
2. Have a sketch book where you can practice without worrying if your art it's perfect or not
3. Experiment with different styles and mediums you don't really know what you like at this stage.
4. Don't be slave of one style just because you sold something, you are still learning.
5. Balance between doing and learning.
6. Use references, stop believing you can reinvent art.
7. Go to musiums and watch old paintings, your will get inspired even when you don't think so.
8. Keep your old paintings, you probably hate them but someone else may find them cool.
9. Go out side, meet some people and collaborate with them, this is not a solo race, your success depends on others as well.
10. Take some breaks from painting for a couple of weeks, once you come back you'll see things with another perspective.
Extra tip. Help others, you don't have to tell them all your secrets but you can teach them one things or two. You may be surprised who end up helping along the way.
My girlfriend bought a painting and once she met the artist she said she'll never buy from her anymore. So remember to be nice and friendly.
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I think it's very important to understand what he says that the skill of the artist is secondary to his skill as a self promoter and marketer. If your only skill is art, you should expect that you won't be successful at selling art, and so you won't become embittered by the thwarted expectation of success. That's just how it is in an imperfect world, there is no reason to lament it. At least God gave you the freedom to create art in this world, and that gift is not dependent on anyone else!
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It's funny he says show less, less options is better. Human brain can handle about 5 to 9 choices, if we are presented w more we tend to space out and not choose anything. It makes sense. The rest is bs lol
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Just take you time and develop without worrying about success too early is excellent advice, but very difficult for young artists coming out of school. The art world is obsessed with finding the next, new, young, art star, it loves novelty, so there is the psychological pressure that a lot of young artists coming out of MFAs have that make them feel like they need to grab every opportunity they have while theyâre still in the network of their peers, visible to potential galleries at their thesis show etc. and thus, theyâre pushed into the art world trying to carve out a space for themselves in an ever growing and highly populated environment. Some students feel that if they drop out of the loop, they lose touch with the art world and the art world forgets very quickly, especially when youâre young and unestablished, itâs not an easy situation.
Being in the art world, having gallery representation, can be difficult to navigate if you have not gotten to the point where youâve made a lot of mistakes and found what you actually want to do, because galleries donât like indecisive artists who are continually changing up their work, cause it makes them hard to market. But you need time to develop after grad school, to work through all those voices and view points thrown at you, to find what you want to say and do, and they takes time, time which many young artists donât think they have. Some young artists probably donât even realize the necessity to spend time developing after school, which sometimes becomes a rude awakening when it hits them that theyâre not really making the work they want to make, but they may realize this when theyâve established themselves as doing a certain kind of work, and itâs then much more difficult to abandon this artistic identity to start from scratch and make lots of mistakes when in the position where youâre known for a certain thing and galleries and museums have promoted you in a certain way.
I wish I took at least 2-4 years after grad school to tear my practice down, and really scrutinize what I want out of this stuff, what my priorities truly are, and allow myself to be vulnerable in private and make a lot of mistakes to find what I want. Itâs the scarier thing to do, but the smarter thing to do in the long run. Young people are scared to miss opportunities, but what even scarier is getting to the middle of your career, having a decent amount of public visibility, and realizing that you never truly defined what you wanted your artistic practice to be, but just rode on the momentum of the tail end of grad school and the theories and practices that were ingrained into you by your teachers and advisors.
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True advice
Take time to succeed
Not go for immediate success
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Great advice about playing the long game and realizing less is more. I get the overall message đđž Thanks for sharing.
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Thank you for always uploading such wonderful and interesting videos !
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Life is a biography.Thank you for sharing a little light to it. For those that didn't get the point: Real Artist Change lives. They get the message across. He's doing his part, I'm doing my part by helping a mental disability program. What about you? Uplifting others is the Key of enjoying your work even more. This is what Artist must discover in themselves.
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He's right, I've got a full time job, side hustles and my unfinished art works. Still can't pay my rent on my own. Thanks dad!
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It's great to hear from Not. I knew him from the early 80's in NYC and remember a beautiful show he did on Bway around Mercer street on the top floor of the building. I wish I could remember the name of the gallery. Not is wonderful and so prolific....
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I'm only 19 but the one thing I learnt while pursuing art is that there is no place for artists in this world.. I haven't given up still
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Sooo, this is 4.5 min of a man rambling. He had absolutely nothing to say but holy hell he loves the sound of his own voice
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so good! so true! Take your time to develope yourself and dont give up!
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This guy's mindset is actually quite helpful and freeing. Most people will think this advice is not good advice, but they would be wrong. Stop caring about money. Money corrupts. Money is artificial. If you only create for the purpose of creating, you will succeed. If you create for the purpose of making money, you will most definitely not succeed.
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To be a successful artist you need a patron. My friends who are successful artists usually have successful parents or parents in law. They are going to help fund your early work and introduce you to wealthy or influential people that are going to buy your work. But yeah, showing how you struggle doesn't make a good impression on potential buyers.
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Thank you so much!
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2 years ago
Watch our full-length video with Not Vital in which he shows his sculpture park, his foundation and his castle! https://youtu.be/-KAxEmX3a2Y
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