It's not a traditional, American-style party, it's a bit of a Chinese symposium — before the convention begins, Cheberry starts asking for opinions, selecting people, and the people who are selected from the different divisions of the art industry will give speeches at the conference. Different topics, different cuts, and then other people will comment, or their own opinions.

The entire annual meeting lasts about three to four hours, after all, old people like Gaspé and Gerhard can't hold it up for too long.

Then there will be about two or three hours in the previous part of the discussion, and there is about an hour left, and everyone can communicate freely and connect with feelings.

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Lin Haven and Dimon sat down at a round table.

"Well done. ”

"......" Although Lin Haven understands that foreigners like to say "good-job", he is still very confused when he comes to such a beginningless sentence: "Mr. Gao Guxuan——"

"Call me Larry. ”

"Yes, Mr. Gagoxuan. ”

Damon held back a smile, he just introduced to Lin Haven, the head of the world's No. 1 gallery group - Larry Gagosian, can be said to be a well-known figure in the art world, there is such a saying that the artists selected by Gagosian Gallery are successful artists. Similarly, the authority and honor of an artist who can be selected for an exhibition at Gagosian Gallery is almost equivalent to that of an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which is the world's top museum.

As you can imagine, this gallery is very powerful.

But Gagosian doesn't accept novices, in other words, half-famous, or already well-known painters are the ones they want to work with, such as Adrian Gottlieb.

His brokerage contract was signed at Gagosian, and it's hard to argue that his success has nothing to do with that.

When his "Gaia" was sold for 850,000 euros, Gagosian intended to sign Lin Haven, but in the end, Lin Haven politely refused and signed Changshuo's Bloom Gallery - this is a matter of autonomy, although Gagosian is more bullish, but there will also be more restrictions, and Lin Haven has no intention of being subject to that restriction.

Of course, that contact was far from the level of Larry, and was just the act of a sub-gallery manager.

The two of them were dealing with each other for the first time today.

"Haha, okay, whatever you want, I just want to be approachable, and if you like to call Mr. Gagosian, no problem. ”

"Okay, Larry. ”

“......”

Larry's face froze.

Dimon almost couldn't hold back, he really wanted to laugh. Larry has obviously not fully adjusted, two days ago, Lin Haven was a Chinese painter with an auction record of 12.5 million euros or more than 100 million yuan, quite a bull, but he has not yet taken a plane to the sky. Today, however, Lin Haven is already the top contemporary artist who has fetched $80 million – at least at market price.

Larry's attitude of looking at the juniors, you are doing well, you are doing well, you can do it, it can be said that it is out of place.

But Lin Haven's temper is not modest.

The result is - no embarrassment, no embarrassment.

"Larry, Lin, don't bother with the title, you should have gotten to know each other a long time ago. Dimon still came forward to reconcile, Sotheby's and Gagosian cooperation, of course, is also very close, and just now he and Lin Haven have concluded a tacit understanding. There was a commotion on both sides, and he didn't want to see it.

"The door of Gagosian was always open, but unfortunately Mr. Lin never saw it. Larry spread his hands, expressing helplessness.

Lin Haven smiled: "I'm blind." ”

“......”

"Poof. Dimon finally couldn't hold back: "Mr. Lin is too humorous, Larry, you will get used to it." ”

Larry didn't know if he would get used to it, but he felt that Lin Haven was too presumptuous, and seemed to think that he could do whatever he wanted because he became the world's highest auction record holder.

"Oh, what does Larry have to say?"

"Hehe," Larry shook his wine glass, "here is almost seventy or eighty percent of the elite in the entire industry, artists like you." Dimon, the auction company, me, the gallery, there are critics, the media, the professors, the owners of art funds, and, of course, many top private collectors. All of these people make up the profession and determine the success and failure of an artist, and the great artists who are unattainable in the eyes of outsiders are often only slightly famous when they first come here. ”

The meaning is too obvious.

You can create a great artist here, and you can destroy an artist – no matter what the price is, there's nothing to be proud of here.

Lin Haven nodded clearly: "So their garbage paintings like Jackson Pollock were praised here? You are really admirable, the garbage recycling work is so good and successful." ”

+200 for the wicked from Larry Gagosian in New York.

"Oh, Jeff Koons is speaking, quiet. Dimon didn't expect that if he didn't pay attention, the smell of gunpowder would be so strong, and he felt that Lin Haven was too prickly. Although Larry's posture is a little higher, he doesn't need to compete so much, a little stupid, regardless of whether he cooperates with Gagosian or not, at least Gagosian is very resourceful, even for an artist of Lin Haven's level, it has a great effect. Lin Haven didn't take this opportunity to play a trick with Larry, and he actually offended people the first time they met.

It's a bone itch.

Jeff Koons was one of the speakers at this year's conference, and as a big commercial artist, he was one of the most successful products of the conference.

The speech began with a personal artistic point of view, and of course Jeff did not shy away from mentioning the elements of market, price, and business, which is what many guests really wanted to hear, and the audience stopped talking and applause rang out from time to time.

“...... This year we have found a new indication, and I will not shy away from saying that Mr. Lin Haven is also present today, and as a true believer in classical academicism, Mr. Lin has created a new school of source classicism with unimaginable talent and ability, which is a good thing. In the past 30 years, art has long blurred the so-called mainstream genres. If hundreds of years ago it was the mainstream of classical academics, and since more than a hundred years ago, it was the mainstream of abstract expressionism, then since thirty years ago, there is only one general term, and that is contemporary art......