"Sign him"
Hanks received the call suddenly at almost four o'clock in the morning yesterday.
Business management courses tell us that the larger a company is, the more bloated it will be and the slower its operating efficiency will be.
Muse Gallery is not a giant trust group with hundreds of thousands of employees, but it is also considered a multinational private company with asset valuations of more than a few hundred million euros conservatively.
The entire company's operating system is like a complex gear set.
Hunter agents like Hanks are directly led by the administrative manager of the Asia region. Above the administrative manager, there is also the senior administrative director of the gallery headquarters in Regensburg.
The director is responsible to the big boss Mas III.
Such as the kind of big contract proposed by Mrs. Sakai yesterday that is not within Hanks's scope of authority.
Hanks needs to convey his opinions to the manager,
The manager will then convey them to the headquarters.
The administrative manager of the headquarters briefly reviewed it. Because in addition to the profit sharing, Mrs. Sakai’s proposal also included requirements for personal exhibitions and the publication of special albums, so comprehensive communication was required with the operations department and the exhibition department.
If necessary, you need to request legal intervention.
And because it involves great artists like Lin Tao and Professor Sakai.
So after the entire gallery senior management has discussed an appropriate opinion, it will eventually need to be presented to Mas III himself, who will make the critical decision in person.
If we had to do all this quickly, it would take a week and a half.
As the gallery is busy with major exhibitions, it would be great to receive accurate feedback within ten days.
Representing major artists is inherently a very tedious and meticulous job.
No matter before signing the contract or after signing the contract, everything must be done rigorously, so as to reduce possible frictions and disputes in the future and take away all the benefits that the gallery can take away.
Gu Weijing himself is not a great artist, but the connections behind him allow him to enjoy the treatment of a great artist.
Hanks’ original plan was to wander along the Yangon River in the past few days, visit the Shwedagon Pagoda, and have fun.
By the way, he hoped to see if he could have a relationship with Mrs. Sakai and leave a personal phone number to establish some connections. It would be a worthwhile trip.
So when he received a call from the gallery in the early hours of the morning, Hanks was shocked.
Not just shocked.
The moment Hanks discovered that not only was the gallery dark and the instructions were given in the middle of the night, but the person who called him was actually the big boss Mas III himself.
Hanks’ face turned green.
He is the head of one of the largest galleries in the world
Hanks also uses his last name to toast champagne to the boss at the annual gallery meeting. Cup of greetings, people gave a general greeting to a large number of people on the rostrum.Nod and forget it.
For events such as family dinners held at Christmas, collateral relatives like him would not be invited at all.
Hanks even vaguely remembered that Mas III bought a small winery in the south of France. At this season of the year, Mas III should spend his vacation in the lavender fields that are about to open in southern France.
Staying up late making work calls while on vacation, do you work so hard as a boss?
"Sign him"
The majestic voice of Mas III came from the far end Come and wake up the surprised and overwhelmed agent, "Hanks, right? If you can't sign him, I will be very disappointed, so don't take the trust."
"tf ”
Mashi is a big family.
The sugar tycoon in the first half of the 20th century and the founder of the Ma Shi Gallery, Ma Shi I, set up a family trust fund when he passed away, so that future generations can receive money according to the distance of their bloodline. , and use the trust money to go to college, see a doctor and so on.
The Ma Shi family has long ceased to operate in the industrial field, but the trust has remained. People like Hanks can also get one or two thousand euros from it every month.
It is very troublesome for the company to fire someone, and it has to give various compensations. However, deactivating the trust is the right of parents of the generation of Limashi III stipulated in the bank contract.
These collateral relatives can park their cars for whomever they want.
"Sign him, and the gallery's outstanding employees and bonuses this year will be yours. I also invite you to attend this year's Christmas dinner."
Ma Shi III is indeed a capitalist, I was deeply impressed by the idea of using a whip and a carrot to drive a donkey to grind hard, so I casually promised benefits.
"Come on."
Just when Hanks was wondering whether he should be happy or worried, the administrative director called.
Then comes the operations director and exhibition planner.
After that there is the company’s legal director.
Hanks didn’t know why.
He just knows.
This evening,
all the senior managers of Ma Shi Gallery were staying up late and working overtime for a contract for an art amateur.
Mars III did not hang up the line and was always connected during the conference call. Occasionally he would express opinions and give instructions on some specific terms.
What everyone on the conference call found baffling was that Mas III was not always fighting for the interests of his gallery.
Many times he asked his team to make greater concessions and share more benefits and benefits with Gu Weijing.
Especially when the big boss finally said the welfare conditions that he could agree to.
Even the operations director and exhibition planner, two old men who have worked for Ma Shi Gallery for more than 30 years, are a little confused.
An unknown artistic amateur.
Even if you teach SakaiLin Tao, the second disciple of Cao Xuan, has a close relationship, but in the final analysis, he is just a newcomer.
Mashi Gallery is not a great painter that has no rankings.
Is this really necessary?
The conference call had just ended when the sky was dark.
Hanks simply stopped sleeping. After washing his face, he got a taxi and went straight to Gu's calligraphy and painting shop.
"I would like to ask, how did you do it."
Hanks was let into the room by Gu Weijing, and when he sat down on the sofa, he still Couldn't help but say.
"What are you referring to?"
"With all due respect, Mr. Mas III personally called and dealt with the situation of a newly signed amateur artist overnight. I have been working for so many years and still First time we met." Hanks yawned while leaning against a cup, and sprinkled toilet water on his neck and arms as if for free.
Gu Weijing did not answer. He turned his back to the window and looked at the Yangon River in the morning, leaving Hanks with a back full of rising sunlight.
He is not pretending to be mysterious or deep.
Gu Weijing really didn’t know that the big boss of Ma Shi Gallery was so interested in him.
He could guess that this should be the handiwork of Mr. Cao Xuan, but he didn’t know any more about the specific details than Hanks did.
Gu Weijing took out his mobile phone from his pocket.
Lao Yang’s reply not long ago contained only a few words, “Mr. Cao understands, ok.” I have already written it all down, and I have obtained the authorization from Mr. Mas III. We can sign the contract at any time as long as you are willing.”
Hanks couldn’t get the answer from Gu Weijing. He put away his curiosity and opened the password briefcase at hand.
“Wait a moment, I have sent a message to Mrs. Cruz, she will be here in a moment.”
“The five-year contract includes a display at the booth of the 2024 Swiss Spring Art Fair. Place your own works"
Mrs. Sakai stared at the paper contract in front of her with suspicious eyes, looking up and down, trying to see the trap under the honey cake.
This is the sun rising from the west
When Mrs. Sakai put forward the conditions yesterday, she knew that according to the habits of large galleries, it would not be so easy to agree directly.
Both parties will definitely have to test and pull each other for a while.
Mrs. Sakai raised such high conditions to give Ma Shi Gallery room to bargain.
What kind of personal art exhibition, publishing a special album?
These conditions are for negotiation.
If the negotiation is good, they will get an advantage. If the negotiation is not good, Gu Weijing will not suffer anyway.
If he is capable enough, he can get these exposure resources by himself even if they are not specified in the contract.
If you can’t hold up the wall with mud, even if you canEven if the face-to-face meeting agreed in Tongli arrives, the gallery can just go through with it.
If we can negotiate the main points, we have achieved the psychological goal of satisfying Mrs. Sakai.
The gift she gave this boy was enough to last him a long time.
But what is going on?
Mrs. Sakai looked at the signature and authorization seal of Mashi Gallery below.
If this was a scene from a Japanese comic book, a whole row of question marks would have appeared on her head.
Not only were every condition she set yesterday met without any discount, the gallery even took the initiative to adjust the contract period from the seven years she proposed to five years.
"It seems that you guys really want to sign Xiao Gu after staying up all night to come up with the contract."
Mrs. Sakai glanced at the person sitting there with a strange glance from the corner of her eye, almost dozing off from exhaustion. Hanks asked, pretending to be nonchalant.
"100% sincerity, 120% patience, only to provide the best service to the artists represented by Mashi."
The blond manager drooped his head. I kept drinking half a dozen bottles of Nescafé coffee bought from the hotel front desk, fighting my sleepiness with caffeine and the urge to urinate, and casually recited a slogan from the gallery.
Looking at his confused look, Mrs. Sakai understood that the other party might also be confused.
"I saw in the contract that you decided to take Gu Weijing to participate in next year's art fair," Mrs. Sakai asked curiously.
"Well, the gallery has rented a booth, and we can promise to give Mr. Gu a quota of no less than three works for the exhibition."
Hanks held out three fingers. .
Art fair is the abbreviation of international art fair.
Since Queen Victoria held the high-profile World Industrial Exhibition in the Crystal Palace in 1851, art fairs modeled on the World Expo were born.
Nowadays, art fairs are not held every four or five years like the World Expo and the Olympics. Instead, dozens of art fairs are held every year in major countries and developed cities around the world.
If a painter wants to be famous,
except for things like opening a special personal art exhibition, which has a very high threshold.
The channels for public-facing painters are nothing more than participating in biennales with a very large flow of people or participating in art fairs where works can be sold at high prices.
There is no distinction between the two, and many things are similar. During the exhibition period, a large number of art masters and wealthy collectors will visit.
If we have to say the difference,
The former is more like an artistic competition, while the latter is more of a purely commercial sales exhibition.
Moutai won the gold medal at the XX World Expo and has been selling well overseas ever since. The story of how many bottles were sold has been spread to this day.
Art fairs are similar occasions.
Because the business atmosphere is heavier, all the participating galleries on this big stage are forI have to pay a lot of money to sell paintings, so the cost of selling paintings at art fairs is very high.
To participate in the Biennale, just register directly.
As long as you can pass the audition of the organizing committee, you can participate in the exhibition even with no money and paintings.
There is no audition in the art fair, everyone can participate, and if you participate, you will basically be able to sell the paintings. It is common for small painters to see the average price of their works double or triple after participating.
Everything is wonderful, except that booths cost money.
Naked and clear price tag.
It costs a lot of money, a lot of money.
The Ota Art Gallery where Professor Kazunari Sakai works participated in the San Diego Art Fair in the United States the year before last, which is one of the more popular art fairs in the world.
Several major galleries in North America participate almost every year.
At that time, Daejeon Art Gallery received an offer of US$600,000 for a week’s rent for a small booth that could not accommodate several artists’ works.
The shops a little further to the center cost 801 million US dollars, and that doubled further in. The large booth in the center was even auctioned by direct bidding.
No less than 3.5 million US dollars per week, equivalent to thousands of dollars spent every minute the paintings on the stand are in front of the audience during the exhibition.
How many art students have been painting all their lives but still cannot sell a work worth a thousand dollars
High-end art is a crazy money-burning game from beginning to end.
The ridiculously expensive participation costs of art fairs have almost prevented scattered independent painters from participating in the exhibitions.
Large-scale art fairs often only have booths allocated to the national teams of various sovereign countries, as well as various large galleries or those who want to fight in the art fair, a magical place where money is everywhere. Officially rented booths for small and medium-sized galleries.
Every artist who can be brought to an art fair by a gallery is the heart of the gallery owner.
They are the gallery’s most important high-quality assets.
Nonsense,
In the past, the little painters made money by creating some works by unknown little painters, but the gallery couldn’t even collect the booth fees and lost money. dropped.
"The booth of the 2024 Swiss Summer Art Fair. The Spring Art Fair here refers to the Basel Swiss Art Fair."
Mrs. Sakai couldn't help but want to confirm.
In the evaluation report of Oil Painting Magazine, Art Basel was listed as the art fair with the most outstanding growth rate in the number of visitors and total transaction price after 2015.
Four art fairs are held every year in spring, summer, autumn and winter at the Victoria Harbor of Xiangjiang in Dongxia, Basel City, the Swiss headquarters, Miami Beach in the United States and the banks of the Seine in Paris, making it convenient for Europe, Dongxia and the United States. These markets have the largest number of collectors and wealthy people in the world.
The scale and volume are not lower than the San Diego Art Fair that Datian Art Gallery participated in.
“Oh, of course, except BarcelonaWhat else does Art Fair refer to?" Hanks asked in a confused tone.
"In that case, please write the accurate name of the Art Fair on the contract. If it is convenient, be sure to write down the booth location for more than three works by Yu Gu Weijing. ”
Mrs. Sakai was afraid that the other party would organize a pheasant show with a similar name and make up for it.
Halfway through the words,
she herself felt that it was unnecessary.
Li Gui pretends to be Li Kui’s rubbish and cheap art fair, which is also seen in the industry.
But participating in this kind of exhibition will bring shame to Mas Gallery.
" Okay, no problem, I will change this in a while and print it out again. I will indicate that Mr. Gu will be given quotas for at least three works of art to be exhibited. ”
Hanks is not willing to get entangled in such trivial matters.
In the early morning conference call, he was given full authority to sign the contract.
This kind of There is no need to consult the superiors for minor matters.
The big boss, Ma Shi III, looks eager to fly over from South France directly on the phone. What kind of villain is he, a wage earner?
< p>The benefit saved for the gallery does not fall into Hanks' pocket."Do you have any other questions, Mrs. Cruz?" Hanks yawned again. Let Mrs. Sakai knead it into a cute shape.
"I have no problem with it. It is indeed very sincere." ”
Mrs. Sakai thought she had nothing to say.
She was too sincere.
Today is a school day, and Sakai Katsuko did not follow Come on, the blond aunt glanced at Gu Weijing, who was sitting quietly reading the contract.
"This guy is so good."
Mrs. Sakai kept humming in her heart. /p>
I am afraid that my son-in-law will have a hard time, and I am also afraid that my son-in-law will drive a Land Rover.
This description is not appropriate, but it fits Mrs. Sakai’s complicated mood at this time.
She came to be a middleman to negotiate the contract for Gu Weijing. The more favorable the conditions, the better. But when the conditions were so generous, Mrs. Sakai was a little bit sour.
It was the first time that her husband had been raped by Ota Art Gallery. It has been a long time since I joined the art fair, and my eldest daughter Katsuko Sakai was running around on the ground.
It was also because there was not enough space in the booth.
One work was removed, and only a 30-foot oil painting was placed in the corner of the booth rented by Datian Art Gallery.
The oil painting was bought by a wealthy Lebanese businessman for 270,000 pounds. Gone.
That year’s art fair was also the first time in Mr. Sakai’s life that the price of his work exceeded 300,000 US dollars. Since then, the average price of his works has entered a stage of rapid growth.
< p>This precious opportunity, which was obtained after so many years of hard work, was given to Ma Shi Gallery as soon as Gu Weijing signed the contract.Mrs. Sakai recalled the hard work she and her husband had gone through.
p>SuddenlyLife is so fucking unfair.
"The sales target is US$200,000. If you are lucky, you can get it at an art fair." Mrs. Sakai pouted.
“This is a direct recommendation to enter the ranks of international artists.”
The reason why she originally set the figure of 200,000 US dollars was because the cumulative sales exceeded 200,000 US dollars, which is usually He will be considered by the art circle as a painter with a certain international reputation.
He is just a very low-end international painter.
The age of taking care as your classic rule.
The gallery can sell him a work for 200,000 dollars. Even if he makes no money at all, he will not get a penny, and it is not a loss at all to gain this reputation.
"Mr. Gu, do you have any additional needs? The terms you proposed have been added to the back of the contract. If it is anonymous, we will not interfere with your online illustration creation, nor will we require Any rights."
Hanks scratched his hair. "Actually, there is no need for this. Mas Gallery also has the intention to develop into virtual blockchain art. If you are willing to cooperate with us, we also have a lot of potential. Good resources and platform."
Gu Weijing flipped through the contract and added the corresponding terms according to his own opinions.
There is no obscure legal terminology, and a lot of it is simple and concise vernacular.
Simple and direct, nothing fancy.
Mr. Sloth told him in the email that the more vague and empty-headed the professional terms are, the more room there will be for debate in court.
Ma Shi Gallery completely added Gu Weijing’s request to the contract without modification, and they probably didn’t want to tamper with it.
"Gu Weijing, it is not easy for you to draw illustrations anonymously. The Murakami Takashi and Kas I know, they are both geniuses who can market themselves crazily in front of the media."
Mrs. Sakai also saw these terms appearing in the contract.
She finally couldn't help her desire to troll people again, and mocked a little bit: "Just by painting, without a suitable opportunity and stage to show myself, I painted the woman in Mr. Haibo's video." The level of a painter is not to sell cheap paintings for ten dollars a piece online."
"I want to paint serious art with Katsuko supporting each other. When I become famous and have money, I will have plenty of time to do it. ”
She and Mr. Cao have the same view. They believe that children have nothing to do and are just playing for fun.
Gu Weijing did not explain, but just smiled at Mrs. Sakai.
"I have no problem anymore. I am very satisfied."
All my hopes have been reflected in the documents, and even far exceeded.
Gu Weijing has no reason to be dissatisfied with the content of this contract.
"You can sign this contract now, but Mr. Mas III thinks that maybe the two of us can play a little coin tossing game."
SaidHere,
Hanks suddenly wasn’t sleepy anymore.
He took out a one-euro coin from his pocket and pointed at the contract in front of Gu Weijing.
"This is side A."
Then he took out another document from the briefcase.
"This is side B." Hanks pushed it in front of Gu Weijing's eyes.
"Since you want to participate in the Singapore Art Exhibition, Mr. Mas III said that if you are confident enough, you can choose a more challenging gameplay. We will sign an agreement. If you can win the prize, Then we will implement contract a. If you can't win, we will implement contract b."
"Tsk, why did you suddenly become so generous? This is the trap."
Mrs. Sakai sneered.
It turns out that such good contract conditions are just fishing conditions.
Considering Gu Weijing’s current level of work, which is eye-catching but far from perfect.
Whether it will win or not,
it depends on whether Mashi Gallery is willing to use cost marketing
"What is a contract? A contract like a slave sale contract." We won't sign." Mrs. Sakai was unhappy.
"No, no, no, madam, we come here with full sincerity. All the terms in the two contracts are the same. Even if Mr. Gu fails to win the prize at the exhibition, we are still willing to We are still willing to take Mr. Gu to the Swiss Art Fair next year if we sign the contract with the conditions you proposed."
"Uh"
This did not bother Mrs. Sakai at all. Got it.
"It's just that we have to sign a contract for fifteen years. Ma Shi Gallery is really optimistic about you, and we hope to cooperate with you in a longer and stable manner."
Hanks Look directly into Gu Weijing's eyes.
"I know you are wondering why you didn't just sign contract A."
"If you are willing to bet, if you win, Mr. Mas III likes those who have courage." Young people. Winning the Masters category at the age of 18 should also make history.”
“For such an outstanding artistic talent, it is our honor to serve you, Mr. Mas III. An unimaginable gift."
With a mysterious smile, Hanks handed something as delicate as a Christmas card to Gu Weijing.
"To be honest, when I heard Mr. Mas III say what he was willing to give you yesterday, even my boss thought Mr. Mas was completely crazy." Please remember to collect, website The latest and fastest free reading without anti-theft