Kazunari Sakai said with a smile: "If I'm not mistaken, the last time in Japan to gather the Yokohama Triennale, the artistic director of the Lion City Biennale and the curator of the Venice Biennale, is still Nanjo's senior, and suddenly twenty years have passed." Mr. Nanjo was really brilliant back then. ”

"Yes, Ying Qing has been hanging a big photo of Nanjo-san on the main enrollment business of the Department of Aesthetics and Art History for many years, which makes their young masters proud."

Hearing this, Yutian Li also sighed with mixed feelings.

Okei Juku is the best private university to go to in Japan, and probably the richest school to go.

The academic status is slightly lower than that of the University of Tokyo, and the social status of the students will be higher, and the students who can go to the universities and universities of the Yingqing School are usually either rich or expensive, a bit similar to the status combination of EtonHouse in the United Kingdom + Harvard in the United States to change to Japanese society, and are jokingly called "Young Master" and "Yingqing Gang" on the Internet.

Ying Qing mainly cattle in the field of political science, mass production of senators and high-ranking civil officials.

The art department generally thinks that talents who can't get into the three schools of the Academy of Fine Arts will retreat to the next best choice.

But that was before Nanjo Shisei.

The news of being the first curator in Japan to be so internationally recognized is as good as hearing about who has won the Nobel Prize.

There are more than 20 Nobel Prize winners in Toei, and Nanjo Shisheng's status is a lone seedling.

Even Yingkei Yijuku, who has served him for many years, raised his eyebrows and exhaled.

"Ying Qing is the prime minister, and Tama is the master. If Ying Qing even has a master, what else do we need our professional art academy to do? ”

Professor Yuda finally couldn't help it.

He said tentatively, "What if Professor Sakai is willing to give the exhibition to Tama?" The school should approve a lot of funds, and it is estimated that it will not be difficult to come up with two or three hundred million yen for sponsorship, so it will be placed in the Tama Museum of Art......"

It's rare for a school to hold an exhibition for a professor.

But after reaching the level of Professor Sakai, many of the conventional rules are no longer shackles, and the budget for any media design exhibition is in the million-dollar range. Tama is no longer as wealthy as Okei, as long as Sakai Issei dares to ask for it, the school will dare to give Sakai Issunari the full amount of the exhibition.

It's hard to say who takes advantage of whom.

"Oh, this is not necessarily who I want to give it to, I will give it to whomever I want, I signed it exclusively, it depends on the meaning of the gallery. It should be unlikely that the exhibition will be held in the name of the school. ”

Uncle Sakai scratched his head embarrassedly.

"Well, who's for sure? At least the two of us can take the time to have a good chat as individuals and make an appointment? I know a good yakitori shop. Wait for next month? Preliminary talks, but the fastest can have an accurate answer, no matter how next year. I've been negotiating a contract extension with the gallery recently, and I'm going to Singapore for the second half of the year. ”

"Okay, okay, it's always good to talk." Professor Yuda nodded happily.

He noticed Sakai Issei's schedule, remembered what he said when he stopped him, and raised an eyebrow: "Professor Sakai is going to the Lion City to be a judge?" ”

Kazunari Sakai has already mentioned the Singapore Art Fair several times.

Listen to the strings and know the elegance.

It shouldn't be too small to be worthy of Professor Sakai's opening.

"Oh, I thought, but I have juniors who want to participate in the exhibition, and I heard that the competition is quite fierce this year, and I don't know if I can be shortlisted." He scratched his chin.

I see, this is it.

I heard Professor Sakai say that.

Yutian Li also breathed a sigh of relief.

He was indeed a little afraid that Sakai Issei would have some difficult heavenly requests.

If it is just a matter of juniors participating in the art exhibition, no matter how fierce the competition is, for Professor Yutian, there will be a lot of room for manipulation.

"It's Miss Katsuko's business. If necessary, I can also go to the jury and put my name on it. ”

"However, as you know, the jury is primarily responsible for judging the awards. In the audition before the opening of the exhibition, there may not be much to say, and there is limited room to play. ”

"It's okay, let me think about it...... Professor Sakai, I suggest you consider going to the head of the Ogata department in Musashino, he and I have been friends for many years, and I remember that Professor Ogata should be on the list of members of the organizing committee-"

After contact at that time.

The Singapore Biennale still gave Riya Yuda an invitation to be the deputy director of international art.

can be regarded as deliberately taking care of his face.

It was Yutian Li who felt that it was not interesting to give someone someone a hand, so he pushed it away.

The two universities, Musashino and Tama, were historically split from the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts, and the head of Musashino's Ogata Department was a professional art historian and art critic.

His own work is not directly related to the curatorial field, so he does not worry and unhappiness others.

Yutian remembers that the other party should be an expert of the overseas organizing committee, and he is a very talkative person.

"—Of course, there is another option. I also have some personal contact with this year's curator, Mika Tonks, and I can introduce you if you feel the need. ”

Yuda Riya thought for a moment, thinking that his speech just now sounded like he was about to push Uncle Sakai out, and immediately showed his own value.

"Katsuko is a well-known art child star in Asia, even if she is younger, but the art exhibition is always eager for good enough fresh blood. I think it shouldn't be difficult for her to get a position as a guest painter as long as she shows some personal style. He hinted.

The highest-end art circle is so big, there are more than 10 or 20 people in Japan and 3 or 400 people in the world.

It is true that Riya Yuda and Curator Tonks are mainly in competition, and it is true that they have a certain amount of personal communication.

While everyone looked at the bayonet of the chief planner of the Venice Biennale, it was also common for people to have personal contacts in private.

Everyone looks up at various international conferences and all kinds of art exhibitions, and no one knows anyone.

Too much to say.

A place for a specially invited painter, Yutian Li also went to sell his face, as long as he paid the capital, how could he sell it back.

"Thank you, thank you, but don't, don't, don't need you to go to the exhibition for Katsuko, it's too troublesome. Do whatever you want, do what you want. Children have their own fate, and it is not good to pull out the seedlings and help them grow. ”

Kazunari Sakai smiled and waved his hand.

It's okay to say hello to a familiar face, but it's not beautiful if it's too deliberate.

Yutian Li can also sell his face and sell back the place of the invited painter, and Uncle Sakai will definitely be able to sell it by selling meat.

Uncle Sakai thought that the age of his daughter Katsuko Sakai and Gu Weijing was very eye-catching even if it was an ordinary year, and the competition was so fierce this year.

How many media spotlights are on it!

It is inevitable to go through the channel of the special invited painter to participate in the competition, and be chewed and gossiped by everyone.

If you can rely on your own real skills to get in, don't rely on favors.

Even if you use favors, you should use it in the most critical stage to add a fierce fire.

It's still in the stage of hot pot, so it's good to knock on the rubbing drum in advance.

Conversely.

Will it be because of this greeting that the hesitant senior Yutian decided to go to the Singapore Biennale jury to hang his name, and even took the initiative to say a few words to his old friend Director Ogata.

Uncle Sakai can't manage it, and he can't manage it.

"Who made Katsuko's father such a good, so famous, and such a charismatic great artist?"

People desperately want to sell favors, and Sakai Issei is also helpless.

He deliberately talked about it with Yutian's seniors when he was working out, instead of a café or even a private visit, except that the weight loss camp didn't let him go out and eat seafood.

It's because there's nothing unpleasant about the conversation.

"Professor Sakai, ...... you?"

Riki Yuda also stared at Uncle Sakai for several seconds.

After confirming that the smile on the face of this chubby guy was very honest and sincere, I guessed that it was not a fake prevarication to show him.

Then he asked curiously.

"That's right, Senior Yutian, there is a child who has painted a good picture and wants to participate in this year's Singapore Art Exhibition, you can take a look, I want to listen to the advice of a professional curator like you, find fault with him, and point out the problem."

Uncle Sakai took his phone out of his pocket and pointed to the sofa in the rest area.

"Is it okay to take up a little bit of your gym time? I think you should have a lot of say in this way of drawing. ”

Professional painters don't have to be generalists, and it can even be said that most of them only need to study one or two subdivisions of painting.

In the contemporary era of the highly branched art industry.

Similar to the field of science, it is difficult to find such omniscient philosophers as Aristotle and Ptolemy, from art to astronomy, from geometry to chemistry.

Practice has proved that such cattle people are often turned out of textbooks and nailed to the pillar of shame at every turn.

Painter field.

It's not easy to play with oil painting and watercolor at the same time.

Most painters have only one or two representative painting methods.

Art critics are different from curators, they don't need to practice painting, but they need to know most of them and have a macro idea of the entire art system.

In this way, among the hundreds of submitted works, there are different painting methods, different painting schools, and different themes, and who draws well and who does not.

Only then can you tell who to lick, who to scold, and what kind of submission to give awards.

Until now.

In fact, even critics and curators have a tendency to gradually subdivide, but at present, most of the world's famous curators are from Asia, Europe and Africa to Latin America, and they can do colonial fusion art from Asia, Europe and Africa, and they can do it with a wide range of knowledge.

Kazunari Sakai had been studying his phone in the gym for a while, and he felt that he didn't need to think about it here.

Why bother!

A lot of resources are obviously dangling around him.

Japanese universities are highly hierarchical.

The professors are in a detached position, with luxurious restaurants, dedicated parking spaces.

Even the large gymnasium and the heated swimming pool below are purpose-built for the highest level of faculty and staff.

It is only available to staff at the level of tenured professors, department chairs and members of the Board of Trustees.

Not only are the equipment first-class, but the general private lessons, supplements, protein powders, and vitamin energy drinks are all free of charge.

As long as he grabbed a suitable strong man to be a coolie, wouldn't it?

A good hunter always appears as a prey, and Yuda Riki, who secretly coveted Professor Sakai's body, didn't know that he drove his beloved BMW on time tonight before stopping at the gym door.

He's already been targeted by Sakai Kazunari and is ready to work.

"Of course, hehe, it's my honor to be able to look at our Tama mascot-level great artist."

Professor Yuda thought that the child in the other party's mouth was referring to his daughter Katsuko Sakai, so naturally there was no reason not to agree, and replied humorously.

"Actually, if you want to be famous at this year's Lion City Art Exhibition, I can personally give you a piece of advice, and that is Impressionism."

Riya Yuda said casually as he walked: "I talked to the Singapore side a few years ago when I was still planning for the exhibition, and their cultural department attached great importance to local characteristics...... Eastern Xia, Malay, Indian, mixed populations. The country is too small and too close to Malaysia, so there is a strong demand that the exhibition represent the aesthetic soul of Singapore. ”

"Impressionist painting is not difficult, and at the moment of its birth, it was the product of the convergence of Asian and European art philosophies. Don't look at this as a nineteenth-century painting method, it looks ancient, but if you have to count the painters who can rely on the art industry to make a living today, to be honest, it may be the largest number of avant-garde artists, because the threshold is the lowest. But, if it's not good, it's the most hungry. Impressionist painters have the most stable jobs, and if you count the middle-class painters in Europe and the United States, Impressionism is still a unique existence. ”

Riki Yuda smacked his lips and said, "I've always told my students that after graduating from Tama in the future, I want to be a painter and not starve to death." Going in both directions is the easiest. One is to paint the kind of realistic portraits of entrepreneurs hanging in the living room, which is the most convenient to find customers, and the other is to paint impressionist landscapes, which are the most accepted by the audience. ”

"Listen to me, draw impressionism, if you can, try to integrate some ukiyo-e, Yamato-painted lines into it, it's very interesting, and it's easy to win awards. Mr. Sakai, if this were an ordinary person, I wouldn't be willing to tell him. ”

He expressed his insights.

What kind of painting is easy to win awards, Professor Yuda is a professional.

"If I have a child to exhibit, I'll let her draw like that."

"Makes sense. However, Yuda's predecessors, this is not Katsuko's work, and ...... "Sakai Kazunari smiled evilly, "Maybe the painting method of this painting is more oriental and ancient." ”

"More Eastern? Older? ”

Yutian Li was also stunned for a moment.

He sat on the sofa and took the mobile phone handed over by Kazunari Sakai, and then he was even more stunned.

"Lang Shining?"

These three characters are Yutian Li, and they are also spoken directly in Chinese.

Tama has a long-term cooperation project with Dongxia, and he has been a long-term visiting scholar at the Central Academy of Arts and Crafts, the predecessor of Kiyomi, many years ago.

is a character at the level of Dongxiatong, and he can also write calligraphy.

There is a specialization in the art industry.

That's why Sakai felt that it was more professional for Gu Weijing's works to be read by Professor Yutian than his own opinions.

"The way of painting at the beginning of the 18th century, Mr. Sakai, you are right, it is indeed more traditional and more oriental." Professor Yuda licked his lips.

(End of chapter)