It's true that art knows no borders, and it's also true that art doesn't make money.

On the morning of the first day of the festival, hundreds of visitors and more than 20 foreigners came to visit, all of whom were full of praise for Chen Li'an's works.

Nearly 1,000 visits did not bring Chen Li'an any income.

It's free, but how can art talk about money.

Vulgar!

However, you still have to buy tickets to enter the National Art Museum of China, anyway, Chen Li'an doesn't have a penny, it costs money to open a film exhibition here, and you still want people to give you money?

Just think about it...

It doesn't matter if you don't have money, Chen Li'an doesn't care about that, this film festival has brought Chen Li'an great gains in other aspects, and it can't be measured by money.

After a morning of exhibition and a noon fermentation, the film festival ushered in the peak of visits at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.

It's just that most of the old people have already gone to rest, and the shock of the work is far less than in the morning.

In order to allow these old people to complete this film festival, Chen Li'an also spent a lot of money, including food, accommodation and salary.

For seven consecutive days, every morning with Chen Li'an to conduct a complete performance art.

Most of the people who came to visit in the afternoon were students from several universities, and they all came here knowing that the exhibition was still very good.

The young people who came and went in the exhibition hall were curious about this film festival mode and were amazed by each of Chen Li'an's works.

These young people have not yet formed their own complete artistic thoughts, and they do not want to accept the past or the future, and Chen Li'an's works have brought them strong thinking and inspiration.

The connection between art and space is strengthened at this moment, different from the installation experiments of the budding apartment art, and different from the confusion and mockery of playism and political pop.

It is completely different from the connection with the environment that Higashimura shows through physical expression and self-abuse.

The tension and opposition between art and reality completely disappear in Chen Li'an's work, which forms a strong contrast with the neoconservatism that is now faintly formed.

Compared with these young people, some artists who have experienced the 85 New Wave of Art have felt a strong impact on Chen Li'an's film festival.

Different from the playfulness that avoids reality and the ridicule of political pop, Chen Li'an's works closely link society and reality, and are more intuitive.

Behind the cynicism of the New Trend of the 90s, there is a secularized mentality, but this trend is completely invisible in Chen Li'an's works, and it is also different from the continuation and reflection of the 85 Art New Wave in those artists who returned from abroad.

Chen Li'an has embarked on a different path from others, a path that seems to be more acceptable to society.

After knowing that there will be a complete display of the works tomorrow morning, the people in the exhibition hall decided that they must come and see it again tomorrow!

Several foreign artists and art critics who have been wandering around the exhibition hall are eager to find Chen Li'an to chat with him, and even a few French artists want to invite Chen Li'an to exhibit abroad!

These artists in Europe really fell in love with Chen Li'an's art form, which made them see something completely different from Chinese artists.

It's just that they searched around and couldn't find where Chen Li'an was.

In one of the museum's lounge areas, Chen Li'an was chatting with several reporters.

With a few reporters from different art magazines, Chen Li'an couldn't remember what magazines were behind each of them.

World Art, Chinese Artists, Popular Photography, Fine Arts, Portrait Photography, etc.

Chen Li'an looked like a lamb surrounded by wolves, looking trembling.

"Is this film festival your reflection and vigilance on society?"

"Why do you want to focus on the elderly?"

"Are you trying to show that society is not paying enough attention to the elderly?"

"Are you criticizing the persecution and deception of people by barbaric business practices?"

"How did you come up with the idea of combining photography and installation... Well... Performance art is linked? ”

Chen Li'an took out a cigarette from his pocket and lit it, looking at the several reporters and critics in front of him, he was a little confused.

I seem to have taken the wrong path, and the impact of art magazines or works of art on society is not enough, so it would have been better if I had submitted articles to newspapers at that time.

Surrounded by cyan smoke, Chen Li'an pondered for a while, not talking about the artistry of his works, but calmly saying everything he saw in the process of creation.

"That day, I saw an uncle at Yongdingmen who was wrinkled and old, and his clothes were very old, not at all like he had the financial strength to buy health care products, but he still spent more than 60 yuan to buy a few boxes."

Chen Li'an paused for a moment, spit out a puff of cigarette, laughed self-deprecatingly, and continued: "I had a strong sense of justice at the time, and I ran over to ask that uncle to return the thing, which was a deceptive thing and had no effect at all. ”

"Do you know what that uncle said to me at that time?"

Several people opposite Chen Li'an glanced at each other, and then shook their heads at the same time.

Chen Li'an squinted his eyes at the gloomy sky outside the window and said, "Uncle scolded me for being nosy, saying that he knew that he was a liar. ”

"Isn't it a surprise?" Chen Li'an asked rhetorically, without giving a few people a chance to speak, and continued: "I was also surprised at the time, and asked him why he knew that he was a scammer and still bought it. ”

Speaking of this, Chen Li'an looked at them a little confused and a little sad and said, "Uncle said at the time... Say... He's willing to be deceived, or at least to make him look worthwhile..."

"Funny, right? There are also many elderly people who have their own reasons for being deceived, some want to settle the hearts of their families, and some are afraid of being disliked. ”

"Almost everyone has their own reasons, which are both unexpected and reasonable."

"Why do you think that's happening?"

After Chen Li'an finished the last sentence, he pressed the cigarette butt in his hand into the ashtray on the table, stood up, patted his hand, stretched out his waist and said: "Art is not really important, it is just a form, I hope you can pay attention to the story behind art." ”

After saying that, Chen Li'an left, leaving a group of people sitting there looking at the cigarettes on the table in a daze, and their evaluation of Chen Li'an was even higher, this is a very strange artist.

After several people glanced at each other, they got up and walked outside at the same time, to interview other people, to listen to the stories told by Chen Li'an, and to announce all this!

At the end of this exhibition, it will definitely shock the entire art world! You can't just be a witness, you have to be a promoter!

Society needs such art!

Zhang Guorong, who had been waiting not far away, saw Chen Li'an coming over, immediately took off his sunglasses and asked with a smile: "The interview is over?" ”

"Well, these interviews aren't interesting, and this exhibition is different from what I intended." Chen Li'an thought of the "reasons" one by one, and couldn't help sighing, there is no criticism and warning, just give those old people a chance to realize their self-worth at the end of their lives.

Zhang Guorong didn't quite understand Chen Li'an's thoughts, but he could see Chen Li'an's depression, so he patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't say it, I'm going to starve to death, invite me to eat!" ”

"Okay, how about shabu mutton?"

"Wow, no, I want to eat roast duck."

"Roast duck is too expensive, just shabu beef and mutton!"

"Then I have to call Gong Li and them!"

"Whatever you want."