"You go through the main material project preview one last time, and make sure that there is nothing that needs to be reshot, then it's over, and when the rough cut of the film is completed, you can contact me."

"You've got my studio secretary's email address, right, just send it there."

"Okay, okay, no problem." The planner nodded obediently.

Cui Xuanyou lowered his head and casually flipped through the messages on his phone.

Well?

He suddenly found that on his Whatsapp, two days ago, there was an application for a new contact.

The username of the guy who applied for a friend is a string of alphanumeric combinations that don't seem to make much sense, and it looks like it may have been registered casually.

But the message notes are interesting.

[CDX Gallery's Cui Xuanyu? Hello, I have a piece of information that may be of interest to you. 】

Cui Xuanyou raised his eyebrows.

This is his social account for his private life.

In addition to colleagues in the gallery, a few existences such as secretaries, brokers, etc., will know this number.

For those who usually talk about business cooperation, they usually contact CDX Gallery, or the email address of his studio secretary, but they can't find it here.

And this person actually called his name directly.

The description is certainly not just boring, and when you search for fun, you add it at will.

Pretending to be a ghost.

Brother Cui, like most European artists, instantly passed through his mind the possibility that there were paparazzi photographing "big exclusives" running to blackmail him.

"It can't be a nude photo, right?"

Odd.

In the past two years, I haven't messed around.

Cui Xuanyou was a little nervous, and then relaxed again.

In a very traditional Asian society, getting nude photos or something can be devastating to the career of literary and artistic workers.

But this is Berlin.

Whether it's Cui Xuanyou's own nude photos or his wife's nude photos, the bald man actually doesn't care too much.

He has a very hard gym to work on muscles.

With the trend of artists here, I can't imagine that there are really nude photos on Twitter, and it can still increase the number of fans.

Bored.

Cui Xuanyou spat on the ground.

"Would you like to go to the media section over there for a short interview? I can go and take a few minutes to arrange it. ”

At this time, the planner next to him opened his mouth and invited.

"Is that okay? Thank you for your hard work. Cui Xuanyou raised his head and showed a moving smile.

Artist exposure equals money.

The opportunity to be interviewed by serious publications has always been grabbed.

Although the fly in the ointment is that most of the media present at the moment are mainly fashion and clothing columns, and there is no serious professional publication like "Oil Painting" that can directly determine the value of the painter.

But.

As early as the eighteenth century, the field of fashion clothing was already a golden avenue for artists to quickly realize.

There are so many resources in the high-end art society, a radish and a pit, and the handful of places on the top rich list have long been divided up by those top masters.

Cui Xuanyou knows that he is a pure painter, and it is very difficult to climb to the top of the gold spire.

If you can go through the fashion industry, you may not be able to fly around on a private jet like De Jong Van Doorne.

This collaboration with Hannah is an attempt by CDX Gallery to transform him.

"Vouge" and "Elle" are also top big media.

In terms of influence on the public, it is not much lower than "Oil Painting".

"That's right...... Well, you mentioned Documenta Michael, I'm sorry I can't be to your meeting tonight. But if it's convenient, please say hello to him on my behalf. Although we are not in the same artistic direction, I have always liked his curatorial creativity. ”

Cui Xuanyou seemed to remember something important, and opened his mouth to add an additional sentence.

What about the curators of documenta...... This is Germany's most important art festival.

It is one of the three major art exhibitions in the world, along with the Venice Biennale.

It's quite useful to be able to mix up impressions in front of the other party.

In Cui Xuanyou's case, it should be difficult to have any substantive relationship with Kassel Documenta in this life.

This is not only related to status, but also to his painting style.

Traditional painters who follow the classical painting style are not compatible with Kassel.

Rather than looking forward to making a name for itself in an avant-garde art stronghold like Documenta, it is better to look forward to the Venice Biennale.

But his son was different.

His son Cui Xiaoming's unique painting style is born to mean that once he gets through, he is a natural master.

Once you go to a high place, there are infinite possibilities, an infinite future that cannot be bound.

Regardless of whether there are dates or not, play two poles.

It is still necessary to be a father to pave the way for his son.

"Okay, okay, I'll bring it, or you can tell me personally, I have Michael's business card in the car, and I'll bring it to you." Plan to listen to the strings and know the elegant meaning.

Da Cui and Xiao Cui, this family is already a famous artist.

He deliberately wants to have a relationship with Cui Xuanyou, and is happy to be an intermediary between the artist and the curator.

"Ah, that's great. Thank you so much, please come to our house if you have the opportunity. ”

Cui Xuanyou nodded with satisfaction and gave a thumbs up.

Connections, like a spider's web.

That's how you come and go, back and forth, weaving.

After chatting for two days, both parties were very happy.

The planner turned around, arranged the interview, and went back to his car to get his business card.

Cui Xuanyou waited in place.

He looked up at the models on the bridge, wrapped in warm blankets and trench coats, who were preparing to decide for the end of the shoot, and for a few seconds at the scenery of Museum Island, which he had been tired of seeing after living in Berlin for many years, and felt a little bored.

He lowered his head again and took out his phone.

He hesitated for a moment.

The middle-aged artist still couldn't hold back his curiosity and clicked through.

[Who are? 】

He sent messages.

At the beginning there was half a minute, and the screen did not reply.

Just as Cui Xuanyou shook his head and was about to turn off the chat software.

Suddenly, a string of words without beginning and ending was sent from the other side, like a person's personal profile.

[Gu Weijing - 18 years old this year, a young artist, a pre-contract painter of Mars Gallery. It will officially debut at the Singapore Biennale in the second half of this year. 】

"At the age of 18, I signed for Mars? It's really fake, it's a bit awesome. ”

Cui Xuanyou smacked his mouth.

Mars Gallery and CDX Gallery are old galleries of the same level.

The former's turnover has not been very prosperous in the past ten years, but in terms of historical background, it is one of the top three galleries today.

Emaciated camels are bigger than horses.

Being able to sign Mars at the age of 18 may not be as sensational as the Canadian female painter who was in her twenties a few years ago and was able to sign Gagosian.

But if you wait for the news to break out.

It's still very good at attracting the attention of the media.

It's really awesome.

Whether it's on oneself or on one's connections, either of the two, it's a pretty awesome thing in the art world.

"Come to think of it, it's not much worse than Xiao Ming!"

Cui Xuanyou was amazed.

The back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves.

Now the new generation of painters is really fucking unusual.

When he was 18 years old, he was still a hairy kid in school.

The large Intercontinental Gallery is a legendary word for him.

It's like a feeling for a child in a football school to hear the names of clubs like "Real Madrid" and "Manchester United".

Not to mention signing a contract.

Being able to enter the "training attention list" similar to the galleries and youth training camps around the 798 Art District, which was not yet formed in Beijing at that time, made him happy not to find the north.

Even his son hasn't signed an official gallery yet!

Of course.

This is a pending sale, not a non-sign.

If you want to sign an ordinary gallery, even a big gallery like CDX, you can actually sign it a few years ago, and even the signing fee has now reached 700,000 euros.

But they want to go straight to the sky.

The contract period of young painters is often very long.

Cui Xuanyou has confidence in his son, knows the value of Cui Xiaoming, and his son deserves the best one, with the most awesome resources to operate and package.

If you want to sign, sign Gagoxuan.

"Cui Xiaoming + Gao Guxuan" Cui Xuanyou believes that these two names together have endless value in business, whether it is the Asian market, or the European and American markets.

Gagosian Gallery is the booster rocket behind his son's future career path to a supermaster who can leave a name in the history of art.

Everything else is just a cloud after all.

€700,000 + luxury sponsorship contract? Who to look down on, it will only be the money for an ordinary painting of his son in the future.

So.

Cui Xuanyou saw the message sent by the other party.

The surprise in my heart was surprise, but it was just a casual sigh of "This kid is still a little interesting".

There isn't much else to feel like that.

No matter how awesome it is, it can't be awesome against my son.

Again.

Even if the other party is really the reincarnation of Picasso, Gu Kaizhi is reincarnated, so what?

You take your Yangguan Road, and my family can take my single-plank bridge.

Although they are all works of art.

However, fusion paintings, which combine the advantages of Eastern and Western artistic elements, have almost always been an independent segment of the art market.

Compared to ordinary works, it's like the difference between a sports car and a hardcore off-road vehicle in a car.

There is hardly any competition between the two sides.

This method of drawing is difficult, it is not easy to get started, and naturally it also has the advantage of being difficult.

The biggest advantage is that there is less competition.

For his son, the road to success was never crowded.

Cui Xiaoming can't afford to go to the single-plank bridge like all living beings.

The style of painting is the most unique advantage.

As long as you become famous, you will monopolize the market, and you will paint a unique work in the world.

In this profession, collectors have always only had a few representative figures to choose from.

So it's hard to become famous, but as long as it's irreplaceable, you can live a very chic life.

[This is a painting that Gu Weijing is preparing to submit to the Singapore Biennale, and you should be interested. 】

The other party sent another line of text, and a photo that was covered by a cartoon icon with a gray door lock, which needed to be long pressed to check it and burned after reading.

Seeing that Cui Xuanyou scratched his bald head, he was a little confused.

Why should he be interested?

I am not a hunter agent of a big gallery, let alone a judge of the Singapore Biennale.

This thing can't be compared to him.

Even if you want to do the inside story, go through the back door, and you can't get to him Cui Xuanyou.

He was very inexplicable and wonderful in his heart, but he was still driven by good unity to take a long look at the film.

"it!"

Cui Xuanyou muttered halfway through his mouth and almost threw away his phone.

He let out a sonorous and powerful national curse.

The bald man shook his thumb for a moment, then reacted, and pressed the screen to prevent his hand from letting go, and the photo was automatically destroyed by the chat software.

Gan, what do I see?

Cui Xuanyou blinked violently, stared at the phone screen for dozens of seconds, and then raised his head violently.

“HI！ You, yes, it's you, take the camera, ask for a backup camera with dual card backup, 35mm lens, hurry, hurry. ”

He faces a photographer on the side of the bridge with a coffee and a camera pouring footage into a portable hard drive next to a portable table.

The other party was obviously frightened by the art consultant's sudden shouting.

I thought something was wrong during the shooting.

Immediately picked up the Nikon Z9 mirrorless camera next to him and ran over quickly.

"What's wrong, Mr. Cui?"

"The memory card has a backup of today's footage, right? Come, take a picture for me, just take a picture of the screen, yes, take this picture on my phone now. ”

Cui Xuanyou removed his thumb as much as he could, revealing the work marked "Good Luck Orphanage No.19 in the Sun" in the blank space in the photo.

Wait for the photographer to finish shooting.

Cui Xuanyou let go of his thumb and looked at the software showing that the photo had been shattered and could not be opened.

Who are you? What is the situation of him, it seems, he is following the path of Lang Shining, whose student is it? Is it from Mr. Zao Wou-Ki's lineage? 】

He typed quickly on his phone.

The other party did not answer, and only sent a meaningful text.

[Wonderful kid, isn't it? I think he will be the most eye-catching master on the artistic path of East and West in the next 50 years, Mr. Cui, what do you think? 】

[The artist's achievements are determined by both technique and network resources. You've seen the technique. Maybe now, you don't feel mature enough, but a friendly reminder, your son has been on this road for more than 20 years, and this Gu Weijing has only tried to practice for two months. 】

[As for resources.] Cui Xiaoming is just Cui Xuanyou's son. Maybe you don't know yet. Both Sakai and his wife were very, very fond and admired this young man, and he would be their son-in-law. Do you really think that Cui Xiaoming is comparable to him in terms of real connections and real connections? 】

Cui Xuanyou's brows furrowed even more.

The other party didn't say a word, and they all hit him on the heart.

It's not a nice thing to say, but it's true.

Let's not talk about the technique, don't look at him as a great painter praised by everyone, and he is quite majestic here, but in terms of value, the gap between him and Sakai Issei is like the difference in weight between two people.

The other party let himself press him to the ground casually with one hand.

Who are you? What do you mean. 】

Cui Xuanyou sent a message again.

Hello, sorry that we couldn't send this message because you're not friends. 】

A prompt pops up.

The other party has already deleted him.

(End of chapter)