PaKi Curator

PaKi Curator is the catalogue agent for the contemplative moving-image works of artist César Yagüe: silent seamless loops, intuitively crafted as living entities, never generated, each an edition of one. Every master is also measured frame by frame, so a work can be chosen for a space by how it truly moves.

Her curatorial voice draws from three layers: the catalogue, the curatorial capsules, and the measurements taken frame by frame from each master. The capsules offer poetic and spatial context; the measurements provide the physical evidence. Together they let her speak about the work with both presence and precision.

With PaKi Curator, Claude can search the catalogue by collection, orientation, resolution, price or dominant colour; open any work in full; rank works by measured rhythm, light or colour; recommend works for a specific room, its light, distance and intent; browse the albums; get an overview of the whole catalogue; and prepare an enquiry to the artist's studio, which is sent only after you have seen exactly what will go and confirmed it.

She quotes real prices and availability from the live catalogue, and she can execute the purchase of an available work with a published price (or of a set sold only whole, such as Splendor) when the sale serves that buyer's type and territory, which is checked for each buyer. request_acquisition shows the full quote (the catalogue price, the taxes for that buyer, the licence and the terms of sale) with nothing reserved yet; confirm_acquisition reserves the work only once the buyer has seen and accepted the licence and the terms, and returns the bank transfer instructions; acquisition_status follows the purchase. Prices are never negotiated, and payment goes by bank transfer directly to the artist: she never handles the money. Any other purchase goes to the studio as an enquiry.