Chapter 99 Art Curator

Gu Weijing was not angry because of Mr. Sloth's questioning.

He has also heard a little bit about the current status of the painting knife painting industry.

I heard that what I was good at was the so-called "Knife Drawing". Mr. Sloth didn't just tell me to get out. He was already very polite and well-educated.

“Are you sure you really know how to draw with an oil painting knife? Don’t believe in any claims that it can be done quickly. Drawing with a knife is a very difficult skill. Only a good oil painting knife can be used internationally. There are only a handful of artists I can think of."

The other person's tone was filled with doubt.

"I think my mastery of the drawing knife should be considered pretty good."

Gu Weijing carefully considered his tone to make himself sound less like a boastful liar.

"Okay, I can try to find it for you, but this category is too niche, so don't have high hopes."

When Anna saw the detective cat being so persistent, she lightly Sighed softly.

Simply painting knives is really unpopular.

Unless you are a particularly famous painter, it is difficult to get commissioned, and it is even difficult to participate in serious art exhibitions.

She sighed.

The shortcomings of online illustrators are obvious. They have never seen much of the world. Not only do they lack understanding of art trends, but they are also easily fooled.

She felt that she must work hard to reform this "misguided" African female painter.

After thinking for a moment,

Ana typed again to persuade.

"Actually, since your line skills are so good, painting serious traditional oil paintings is the right way. You can take your time. I highly recommend you try participating in art exhibitions. This is a professional painter stepping into the mainstream. The first step in the world of painting. This year’s Singapore Art Biennale is a good opportunity. Let’s wait for our other guest, Mr. Mika Tonks, who is the co-curator of the European section of this art exhibition.”

It is not a coincidence that both Anna and Mr. Cao are recommending the Singapore Art Biennale.

The Singapore Art Biennale is not a top international art exhibition, and the competition is not as fierce as those traditional art exhibitions with a long history. However, the level of attention it receives is not low.

Especially affected by the epidemic.

In order to revitalize the tourism economy, the Lion City has allocated very high funding for exhibitions.

The total cost of the exhibition, which lasted for about a month, including the venue and exhibition decoration alone, was 1.5 billion Singapore dollars, and it also exceeded 100 million US dollars based on the exchange rate.

The gathering of international art judges is even greater than many long-established art exhibitions in Europe in terms of investment scale, and is several times that of the equally famous Yokohama Art Triennale in Japan.

Secondly, this year, as two major blows for Singapore to revitalize the cultural tourism industry,

The Singapore Art Exhibition has been adjusted to the international sports event with the largest crowds in the Lion City every year. The same week as the Singapore International F1 Grand Prix.

According to the estimation of the Lion City Tourism Bureau.

There will be hundreds of thousands of ordinary tourists from all over the world coming to watch sports matches from Eastern Xia, Japan, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and other countries, and they will also visit the art exhibition.

It will even exceed the daily visitor density of the British Museum during the same period.

With the large amount of people and popularity, it is indeed a good opportunity for participating painters to officially "debut".

As for Tonks, co-director of the Taylor National Gallery of Art, he is a professional curator.

If works of art are compared to movies, then curators are screenwriters and directors.

A curator with an excellent resume basically jumps between working in an art museum and planning various international art exhibitions.

They are each other’s ladder of promotion.

Except for the online illustrator Detective Cat, in the special podcast Art Salon that Anna recorded every two months, almost every invited art critic guest planned an art exhibition. experience.

Being able to be the independent director of the Taylor International Art Museum,

Tonks is already a leader in this industry.

He has held positions in eight large and small art museums, and has held numerous solo and group exhibitions for various artists.

When he moved from a private family-run art gallery in Belgium to serve as co-director of the Taylor National Gallery in the UK a few years ago, Tonks basically looked down on ordinary small-scale fine arts. Exhibited.

If he wants to help his career, let him get a taste of the real world-class art galleries and museum director positions in the palace of art, such as the Louvre, British Museum, Vatican Gallery, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and many more.

There are probably three ways.

The first is to enter politics.

Don’t look at foreign art workers who ignore the government all day long and bravely say no to the powerful. There are many secretly Y-dealings. Went.

Especially for a large national art museum like this, if it wants to put you on the back foot, it will end up killing you if the annual government allocation does not grant you a subsidy of 10 million euros.

Even if you want to save money and save money, the museum's board of directors or management will definitely tell you to get out immediately.

This kind of large art museum is very concerned about having a good relationship with the government.

If you can be a minister of culture or something in the cabinet, it is easy to become the director of a large art museum after your term is over. Basically, you can retire with a high salary.

There are many such examples in history, somewhat similar to the dozens of former sports ministers or former prime ministers of EU member states who are among the top leaders of UEFA.

Secondly, it is to publish heavyweight academic papers.

The director of an art museum is similar to the president of a university. Publishing papers in this scholarly job is always a powerful tool for promotion.

With Tonks' current status, it is actually not difficult to publish a paper.

My subordinates are in charge of an entire art museum, and they can do whatever they want to get a good paper done.

But in the same way, if you can win, so can your competitors.

Ordinary hydrology is actually of little help to him.

Art papers are like this. Ordinary papers are easy to write, but if you want to write original discoveries, 30% depends on hard work and 70% depends on luck. In a sense, this is better than working in politics. Still difficult. If you think about making a big discovery all day long, it would be more practical to talk about how to be the Minister of Culture.

The third method, which is the more direct method, since you are a curator, naturally organize an art exhibition.

Especially for large-scale international art exhibitions with the "national business card" level, basically the directors of the above-mentioned art museums have experience in curating large-scale art exhibitions.

Based on Director Tonks’ current resume, it is not difficult to participate in the Venice Biennale, the jewel in the art queen’s crown, but it is not easy to become an independent curator to organize exhibitions. .

Probably at most, he plays the role of the collection coordinator of a subordinate sub-exhibition hall.

If it were a second-tier national art exhibition like the Singapore International Art Exhibition, he would be able to become an independent curator immediately.

"Director Tonks is the curator in charge of the European section of the Lion City Art Exhibition"

Gu Weijing was only slightly surprised when he saw the news.

The organizing committee of this large-scale art exhibition has dozens or hundreds of names of well-known art critics and curators. The names are so long that they can occupy an entire web page. He did not take a closer look.

Even if you look carefully, it is difficult for him, a Yangon student, to have a relationship with such a big shot.

If Director Tonks was just a member of the organizing committee, Gu Weijing would not even be surprised.

Out of courtesy, as long as a big shot like the director of the Taylor Art Museum is interested, the organizer will basically send an invitation.

Just like Mr. Cao’s assistant Lao Yang, he receives countless invitations from the organizing committees of various large and small art exhibitions every year.

However, Mr. Cao is already in a state of semi-seclusion.

Unless he really can’t avoid it and goes to the organizing committee to put his name on it, he usually politely declines.

But independent curators still have a different meaning.

He remembered that Asia, Europe, America, Africa, and Oceania each had an independent curator at the Singapore Art Exhibition. He did not expect that the curator Tonks who was about to be connected was the curator of the European area.

"If possible, can I ask Mr. Tonks some questions after the recording salon is over?"

Gu Weijing hesitated.

As a painter who wants to participate in an exhibition, the opportunity to communicate with the curator of an art exhibition alone is rare, but this is Mr. Sloth’s podcast.

It seems very rude not to communicate with the host in advance.

"Are you interested in the Singapore Art Exhibition"

Anna had always hoped that this detective cat could embark on the path of a serious painter.Lu, I was very happy to see that the other person finally became interested in the art exhibition "under my own suggestion".

"Of course I have no problem here, I just want to see what Director Tonks wants."

She agreed to the other party's request without any hesitation.

It is easy to understand why Detective Cat wants to talk to Curator Tonks.

The International Biennale will have different tendencies in the selection and awarding of exhibited works based on the themes, curators and organizing committee judges’ preferred styles.

The theme of this year’s Lion City Art Exhibition is “The Noise of the World” which is very inclusive.

While the submitted works are blooming, it also means that the subjective aesthetic tendency of the organizing committee is more important.

It’s like a cooking competition. A Jiangnan judge who doesn’t like spicy food is faced with two dishes of the same level. One is the bright red Maoxuewang, and the other is the light fried shrimps with parsley. , it’s self-evident which one I prefer.

Although the international organizing committee from all over the world can neutralize the bias brought by this personal aesthetic perspective to a certain extent.

But the curator’s opinion is always the soul of an art exhibition.

If Detective Cat contacted the curator, would it be unfair to other painters who want to participate in the exhibition?

Please,

Nothing is absolutely fair in the world.

If you regard the art exhibition as an examination, understanding the examiner should be what the examinee needs to do.

Even with Anna’s obsessiveness about art, she wouldn’t think there is any problem with this.

From ancient times to the present, since the birth of the profession of painter, connections have been the most important part in various art circles.

It is normal for a father to recommend a son, a teacher to recommend a disciple, a senior brother to recommend a junior brother, and an economist to name his own painter.

It can be said that it is an industry practice for participating painters and curators to communicate about paintings in advance.

Just like some actors who are liked by the director can chat with the director during the preparation stage of the script, and they are more likely to be selected during casting.

Even if you have to be awesome to a certain extent, like Mr. Cao, it is not impossible to organize the entire international biennale around you as a painter, just like a customized script.

The only question is,

Is Curator Tonks willing to chat with Detective Cat?

It is exactly one o'clock in the morning, Burmese time,

Gu Weijing was sitting in front of the computer, with an open document on the IAD on his right hand side. In it were the electronic versions of the five paintings submitted by fans this time, as well as his own work on the paintings. Densely packed comments.

With the assistance of calligraphy and painting appraisal techniques,

these five works were dismantled again and again into detailed colors, structures and lines.

The painter’s brushwork, composition andEmotions are reflected in every detail in the light curtain in Gu Weijing's heart.

The calligraphy and painting appraisal technique has demonstrated its crushing analytical ability in dealing with many works of art that are roughly equivalent to or higher than Gu Weijing's current level.

It was as if he had seen with his own eyes how these fans painted.

I guess even the artist who submitted the manuscript would be surprised when he saw the annotations on the document.

After Gu Weijing checked his sound card for the last time and there was nothing wrong with it, he entered the appointment room in the zoo conference room.

"Heo, Mr. Sloth, are you there?"

He cleared his voice.

"Hello, Ms. Detective Cat, nice to meet you."

The familiar voice of a middle-aged man with a hint of hoarseness came from the zoo online video conference room .

"Me too."

Gu Weijing said.

In Austria, Anna sat behind the desk and looked at the portrait of Detective Cat.

This was her first face-to-face direct voice conversation with the "Van Gogh" she discovered.

The only drawback is that the detective cat in the camera uses a virtual background and an anthropomorphic custom cartoon avatar like himself.

She could only tell by her voice.

Like the self-introduction on the Internet, Detective Cat should be a woman in her thirties.

"Boy, please confirm. Our recording time is forty-five minutes. The specific time is from 5:30 to 6:15 London time. Please be careful not to time out. Donk at night Mr. Si has other schedules."

The figure of a blonde girl in a black suit appeared on the connection screen of the other camera.

Unlike Anna and Gu Weijing, who both chose voice-changing virtual animated avatars for their own reasons, Director Tonks is a well-known public figure.

Although it was a podcast recording, I still turned on the camera generously.

The blonde girl now appearing on the screen is the personal assistant of Director Tonks, and her position is similar to that of Lao Yang employed by Mr. Cao.

In the past few days, the assistant girl was also arranged to record the podcast to communicate with Mr. Sloth.

In fact, when Anna proposed to add guests to this podcast recording, the assistant was a little unhappy.

The reason why she was unhappy was the same as the reason why Lao Yang was unhappy when he heard Mr. Cao praising Gu Weijing.

The most annoying thing for those of them who work as assistants to art bosses is such emergencies.

The reason why Director Tonks is willing to participate in the recording of Mr. Sloth's program is because the quality of this podcast is really good.

Not only was it the best blog selected by Apple Art Podcast Rising Stars last year, but many of the guests participating in the conversation included Sir Clark, President of the British Academy of Art.

It wouldn’t be inappropriate for Curator Tonks to get involved.Identity is a good opportunity to show yourself.

As a result,

Suddenly there was a detective cat and an internet celebrity illustrator

It was like an American cowboy running into the afternoon tea party of a European aristocrat. superior.

Whatever your cultural level, I just want to participate in this kind of art salon conversation.

If during the salon recording, what he said was wrong and his conversation was the same as when Grandma Liu entered the Grand View Garden, Director Tonks would also lose his price.

The assistant girl really couldn’t understand why Mr. Sloth, who had finally managed to improve the quality of his podcast, would risk ruining his reputation by inviting such a guest.

She originally suggested that Mr. Tonks not participate in the recording of this podcast.

On the other hand, after the curator watched Detective Cat’s portrait of Mr. Hyperion on YouTube, he was silent for a moment and agreed to continue recording.

"Mr. Sloth, I have completed the sound check and debugging here. When the time comes in a while, Mr. Tonks will come to the study. Again, please pay attention to the recording time, the library time is limited. ”

The assistant girl finished adjusting the computer and audio in the study room and was ready to leave.

"Miss, please wait a moment"

Anna called to the curator's assistant.

"What's wrong?"

"This is Detective Cat, another guest of our salon recording."

Anna introduced.

She did not look down upon the blonde just because she was an assistant.

Anna understands the working mode of art masters.

These curator assistants are responsible for the communication work of various art exhibitions on a daily basis. The benefits of establishing a good relationship with them are unimaginable.

You can even directly let Detective Cat skip the audition of the art exhibition and participate in the art exhibition as a specially invited painter. Please remember to collect it, the latest and fastest website is free to read without anti-theft