"It makes sense." Mrs. Sakai nodded, "The children entered the art exhibition openly and honestly based on their own ability."
The blond aunt curled her lips and hummed: "It's upright and fair. It’s an innocent matter, but it wouldn’t be good if some shameless colleagues said that you had an inside job and exerted too much influence on the organizing committee.”
“Yes, that’s right. "Uncle Sakai nodded immediately, and the fat on his chin trembled, and he echoed his wife like a chicken pecking at rice, "Some people are always jealous of our children because they don't live up to expectations. , Don’t let others talk nonsense.”
Sakai Kazunari’s small eyes turned around twice.
"Besides - if the painting unfolds to the back, we really have to dig into the inside and exert influence on the organizing committee."
The fat uncle thought very cleverly.
Energy should be used where it counts.
At the beginning of the event, it would be bad to let others chew on his ability to use his connections to put pressure on the organizing committee...especially on such inconsequential matters as Booth No. 1 and Booth No. 2.
After all.
If there is a disagreement when the organizing committee comes to discuss opinions, and at the critical moment of whether to be selected or not, the "balance" of the award is swinging up and down. Is Sakai Kazunari really going to shyly stroll over, find an opportunity when no one is around, sneak up on him, and use his connections to put pressure on the organizing committee?
It is inconvenient to be under the spotlight.
Low-key.
Be low-key.
When no one is paying attention, Gulu Gulu rolls in. Don’t be too ostentatious.
Mrs. Sakai looked at her husband.
The uncle looked at his wife's face and asked tentatively: "Honey, am I doing well?"
The blond aunt smiled.
She leaned down, kissed Kazunari Sakai gently on the face, and raised her head. "You're doing well. My Byron is the best. Regarding the art exhibition of Shengzi and Gu Weijing, I need you to continue to work hard."
Uncle Sakai immediately shook with pleasure.
As the waves rolled, he rolled to one side smoothly.
"In that case, wifey, you go upstairs and tidy up first. I just happen to go take a shower. The movie won't enter until ten o'clock in the evening. Look at the time. We still have time to have a candlelight dinner. By the way, Let’s discuss the children’s painting exhibition. I know a shop that sells roasted birds, which would be very suitable...”
The uncle was only halfway through.
Before he had time to stand up from the ground, he was held down by the blond aunt again.
"It's good if you perform well. You must complete the aerobics today. It's two different things." Mrs. Sakai sneered, and she instantly understood the other person's thoughts. "I think a walk to the cinema is a good time to discuss things."
Uncle Sakai's expression turned bitter.
"Be good, this is for your own good." After suppressing her husband who wanted to run away, the blond aunt kissed him on the forehead again.
"Come on, when you finish practicing, let's take a shower together."
She then opened the door and let in the personal trainer waiting outside.
……
The other side of the phone.
Director Tonks hung up the phone and did not continue the review work immediately.
He was sitting on the boss's chair with his legs crossed, sipping the black tea in the cup while still staring at the work on the laser projection screen.
Tonks was lost in thought for a long time.
He always wanted to see something from this painting.
In addition to the rendering and shaping of the atmosphere, there are also other things, such as... He was surprised to find that at this Biennale, the organizing committee received more works that included fusion elements than expected. A lot more.
It’s not surprising.
Oil paintings at Asian art exhibitions often incorporate Asian characteristics. European art exhibitions feature European characteristics. If it were an art festival held in a place like South Africa or Nairobi, Kenya, it would also be integrated with the characteristics of many native African tribes and clans.
The works at the Singapore Biennale were chosen by the judges. It is natural for everyone to create a creative style that combines Asian and European characteristics.
"It's just that there are a lot of smart painters this year."
Tonks thought about this.
"The level is also very good."
For those who engage in fusion artistic creation and are not bad at it, the "Good Luck Orphanage Under the Sun" is one of them. , the impressionistic painting method on "Girl Reading Poetry to Cats" can also be included in this category in a broad sense.
And there is——
Tonks pondered for a moment.
He opened the laptop on the side and selected the "Specially Invited Expert" column in the electronic painting category of submitted works.
"cdx Gallery——Charles Li (49 years old)"
"cdx Gallery——Zhang Lihua (53 years old)"
"Whitestone Gallery—— Almihenzardi (46 years old)"
"..."
He ranked the dozen specially invited painters by age, and among the youngest painters, he chose one of them.
"Cui Xiaoming, 28 years old, has not yet signed a contract with a gallery or art agent, but it is said that many super galleries and painting giants, including Larry Gagosian, have expressed interest in him. Interest and attention. Maybe he will reach the top in one step."
Tonks looked at Cui Xiaoming's personal information sheet and thought about the rumors and gossip in the industry that he had heard about, and the face of this young man. One corresponds to the other.
He was also deeply impressed by Cui Xiaoming, the specially invited painter.
Participating in an international biennale is a big deal.
Specially invited painterThey often have the best booths and the best resources. This also means that their requirements for themselves are completely different from ordinary painters.
Young painters will be satisfied if they can be shortlisted at the Biennale, be gilded, and soy sauce.
When they came, they didn’t even think about such fantastic things as being able to jump over the dragon gate, fly up instantly, and increase their worth ten or twenty times.
You can swim in the Hualong Pond at the Biennale, take a dip, soak up the fairy spirit, and take photos with great painters. Originally, a painting sold for 3,000 US dollars, but with this After qualifying for the exhibition, it can be sold for US$5,500 or even US$7,500.
Even if it is successful.
This is a more realistic ideal.
How many people can ride the wind and transform into dragons at one Biennale?
You can’t transform into a dragon, just be a shrimp and a crab general. Even if you are just a gatekeeper on the international stage, when you return to your own small pond, you are also a bully who can make all the changes.
Specially invited painters are different.
They are already bullies. They definitely did not come to the Biennale to be used as background props for young painters to take photos with.
Every time Hirst participates in the Venice Biennale, he spends tens of millions of pounds on materials and venue costs, and takes five to ten years to prepare.
So as long as ordinary painters can get tickets to the Venice Biennale, they will take off happily.
But for a specially invited painter like Hirst, with his reputation, his status, and his resources.
Even if it is only measured by the amount of money he needs to spend to participate in an art exhibition with such great enthusiasm.
No matter how much coverage it gets or how much attention it attracts.
As long as you don’t win the Golden Lion Award, your overall net worth will be pushed up a level.
Don’t say it’s a loss or a loss.
At least this result is absolutely unsatisfactory.
Critics are not satisfied, Hirst's fans and supporters are not satisfied, and he himself may be the most dissatisfied.
I am number one in the world.
The world’s No. 1 loses the art competition.
Then uncle, don’t I become the experience package for others to gain gold coins by stepping on top?
Perhaps none of the specially invited painters who appeared on Tonks’s list had Hirst’s worth and status, but there were also some from big galleries who could often be found in various international biennales and art fairs. Well-known artists appearing at the conference.
The intrinsic properties are similar.
For them, there are only three things that really matter.
Winning, winning, winning.
These people have artistic resources and marketing teams that ordinary contestants cannot match.
So they don’t want to lose, and even can’t afford to lose.
On the road of art, good opportunities may appear only a few times in a person's life.
Slip away this time.
No one knows whether there will be a next time.
Well-known large galleries will never lack quotas to participate in the Biennale through special invitation channels, but internal competition pressure is also greater.
They also always have outstanding painters several times the number of places.
This time the gallery pushed you, but you got nothing, not a single leaf.
In the next session, this opportunity may no longer be yours, and the gallery will give up on you.
The resources in the art world are so tight, and I was abandoned by a large gallery once, which puts a "seal of failure" on my butt.
It is even more difficult for them to wait for a second chance.
When Uncle Sakai was young, he was almost eliminated by Ota Art Gallery. There he cried and prepared to burn charcoal to commit suicide, but was slapped hard by the angry blond aunt.
So these specially invited painters have made their decision to participate in a certain exhibition very early.
They have generally been sharpening their skills to prepare for this Biennale for a year or even several years.
It was only a month or two ago that Cui Xiaoming temporarily contacted Tonks through an intermediary and expressed his wish to participate in the exhibition through special invitation channels.
Except for special cases like Detective Cat.
Normally speaking, it is rare for specially invited painters to make such a hasty decision to participate in an exhibition.
Tonks did not hesitate much and agreed to allocate a booth to him.
Time is tight and time is tight.
His works are not tacky at all.
"Specially invited artist: Cui Xiaoming"
"Title of work: threebodiesofthebuddha (New·Three-Body Buddha)"
Tonks pressed Enter.
An unforgettable piece of work appeared on the laptop screen.
There is no size difference between different submitted works in the electronic album.
However, according to the mark on the work information table next to it, the height of this painting even exceeds Tonks' height.
It is not a huge oil painting like a dome painting.
But it can also be said that the size is amazing.
It is hard to imagine that if the other party really decided to participate in the exhibition recently, that is to say-the young artist actually spent just over a month to create the painting. Such works.
Do not consider the time spent thinking about composition and brewing inspiration in advance.
Just painting.
To be able to paint such a large oil painting in more than a month requires the creator to have absolute confidence in his proficiency with the brush.
Require the other person to fully understand what kind of painting they want every time they write.
There is no time for hesitation and repeated revisions.
"ShouldIt should be said that he is worthy of being a young painter who even Gagosian publicly expressed his concern for? ”
Tonks smacked her lips.
This kind of person has found himself, not to mention that he is still in the preparation period for the exhibition. Even if the exhibition is about to open tomorrow, today’s painting Put it in front of him.
He would have squeezed out a booth.
This work is worth it regardless of Gagosian's name. The extra attention brought by them.
Cui Xiaoming’s parents are not simple either. They are incomparable to Sakai Kazunari, but they are both well-known figures in the circle.
Tonks was still willing to show favors for a little effort.
Tonks looked at "Three Body Buddha" on the computer screen, then turned her head to look at "Good Luck in the Sun" on the projector. Orphanage".
He just watched and watched until the black tea cup in his hand gradually became cold.
Tonks understood that he was looking at Miss Sakai on the projector. My boyfriend’s works have been amazing for so long, and I want to see something.
It’s not just the magical atmosphere-shaping ability.
A sense of familiarity.
The exhibition painting is not the only one that allows curator Tonks to find a sense of familiarity similar to "Lucky Orphanage in the Sun". "Girl Reading Poems for Cats"
There is also this painting "Three Body Buddha" by Cui Xiaoming
"Girl Reading Poems for Cats" is just a painting technique.
And this "Three Body Buddha"... is similar in concept.
Gu Weijing. The work lacks the artistic imagination and aesthetic and philosophical interest of Cui Xiaoming's "Three Body Buddha".
Cui Xiaoming's works are also not as good as Gu Weijing's "Better in the Sun". "The Orphanage", that kind of outstanding atmosphere-shaping ability.
But Tonks just felt that the "creative concepts" of the two works were somewhat similar.
If not. Gu Weijing adjusted the composition.
The two paintings should be more similar.
Tonks has never seen Gu Weijing use the same oblique triangle composition method to depict the Virgin. The practice work with the statue in the center of the picture is not as clever as Lao Yang's.
Lao Yang's skills are just right.
And he is twisting and turning. Regarding the ghost realm of the human heart, Lao Yang does have a keen sense of smell like a reincarnated Chihuahua.
So Tonks couldn't understand the twists and turns. .
He simply felt that the two paintings were somewhat similar in nature, and also a little... in a tit-for-tat manner.
This could only be attributed to Tang Ke. Si has been a curator in the industry for half his life. After reviewing 18,000 different works, he has accumulated a little bit of artistic "sixth sense" with his massive experience.
"One is a young man whom Kazunari Sakai asked me to take special care of, and the other is a young rising star painter named by Larry Gagosian."
"One has a beautiful concept, and the other has a strong aura. ”
After a long silence.
Tonks covered the computer screen and drank the black tea in her hand.
He patted the armrest of the chair and sighed softly.
“It’s really a battle between dragons and tigers.”
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The time difference with Japan is two and a half hours.
When the fat seal finally escaped from the iceberg stuck in its belly and ascended to the sky, Mrs. Sakai took Uncle Sakai, who was gasping for breath with his tongue hanging out, for a walk like a dog and went out to watch a night movie.
It was just after midnight in Yangon.
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