Fringe artists in the entertainment industry

Chapter 141 139. When the west is not bright, the east is bright

In the dark and silent hotel room, Chen Li'an threw off his shoes, threw his T-shirt on the sofa, and walked to the air conditioner to enjoy the cold air.

This is simply a life-saving fairy spirit!

On the big bed behind Chen Li'an, Bai Qing opened his eyes and looked at Chen Li'an, whose figure was blurry in the darkness, and reached out to turn on the wall lamp beside the bed.

The warm yellow light illuminated the room instantly. Under the soft light, Bai Chang held his head on his hands and looked at Chen Li'an's generous back. He felt that his muscles had become much fuller after not seeing him for more than a month.

"Did I disturb you?" Chen Li'an turned his head and glanced at Bai Qing and asked.

Bai Qing hummed and said, "You came back and made such a big noise, didn't you just want to wake me up?"

Chen Li'an turned around and smiled, wiped the sweat from his neck and said, "The weather is too hot, I have to take a shower, I will definitely wake you up."

"Okay, let's go wash it." Bo Qing yawned, stood up the pillow and leaned on it, picked up the book on the bedside and started reading.

Chen Li'an glanced at the cover of the book and couldn't help but smacked his lips. No wonder he felt something was wrong with this girl. Emotions can only be found in books.

"Notes on Love" is a novel written by the British writer Alain de Botton. It contains many philosophical thoughts on the different stages of love. It is a very interesting book.

People will grow up. After Bai Qing escapes from poverty, he will naturally think more about life and life. This is a good thing.

Chen Li'an glanced at Bai Qing, who was reading a book seriously, then turned to go to the bathroom to take a shower.

What is the essence of love? Can it be written in a book? Chen Li'an doesn't think that love can be answered in a book. If it could, then he would have already understood what love is.

The sound of rushing water in the bathroom kept coming, accompanied by Chen Li'an's inarticulate humming. Bai Qing put down the book in his hand and listened for a while. He found that he couldn't hear clearly at all, so he picked up the book and continued reading.

Bai Qing found it very interesting when she read the book's speculation on the fatalism of love. She originally thought that her encounter with Chen Li'an was destined, but after reading the dialectics of the author's various mathematical thinking in the book, she suddenly felt that she and Chen Li'an were destined to meet each other. The encounter may have been by chance.

Bai Qing closed the book and looked at Chen Li'an's blurry figure on the frosted glass of the bathroom. He stared at it quietly for a long time. Finally, he couldn't help laughing, shook his head, and said to himself: "Isn't chance also fate?"

Bai Qing, who seemed to have the answer in his mind, threw the book into the trash can, sat up and gathered his hair, got up and poured two glasses of wine.

At this time, Chen Li'an came out wearing a nightgown and wiping his hair. He looked at the wine glass in Bai Qing's hand, reached for it, took a sip and said, "Why don't you continue reading?"

"That book is not interesting." Bo Qing shook his head, drank the wine in the glass in one gulp, and then shook his hair slightly. The hair that was originally gathered together fell apart instantly, and Chen Li'an was immediately attracted by a different style. Put down the wine glass in his hand.

"Want to dance?" Chen Li'an smiled and stretched out his hand, looking at Bai Qing and asked.

Bai Qing put his hand in Chen Li'an's palm and said with a smile, "I'm extremely happy."

Although the dance without music was not perfect, the two still danced happily. However, Bo Qing was a little clumsy and would always step on Chen Li'an's feet, then lose her center of gravity and fall into his arms.

Early the next morning, Chen Li'an got up from the soft big bed, stepped on the clean floor with his bare feet, looked at the sun outside the window, stretched out comfortably, then washed briefly, changed into clothes and went out.

There was an artist's party today, and Chen Li'an also received an invitation. He and Bai Qing were originally invited, but Bai Qing seemed to hate the person hosting the party and refused.

The banquet was hosted by the curator Claire. This time the curator Claire had an interesting approach, that is, countries that did not support the third world were not welcome to participate in the Venice Biennale.

In his words, their concept of art is strictly limited to the West, and any institution, art exhibition or museum that falsely tolerates third world ‘artists’ is completing the last piece of the puzzle of misinterpreted colonialism.

However, this art exhibition still has many artists from third world countries participating, such as Chen Li'an.

This is a very traditional and conservative art critic. He even wrote a book the year before last. The opening chapter pointed out some strange phenomena in the art circle, and these strange phenomena were exactly what Chen Li'an had experienced in Paris and China.

Claire made a few points, and Chen Li'an was very impressed. First, Western contemporary art thought is essentially ethnocentrism with Western superiority as its core; second, Western contemporary art is full of various invisible speech controls and censorships. Many of them All contemporary artists were once tools of political propaganda; third, artists should create based on the individuality and diversity of national culture and should not become processors of the so-called international style; and finally, there is one point: art and artists We should be full of respect for tradition and return to our origins.

This is a man with a clear understanding. Chen Li'an quite agrees with some of his remarks, but he is just curious about why he is so interested in his works and invites himself to the party.

According to his philosophy, he should belong to the group he denounced, linked to business and politics. The only thing similar to his philosophy is that he respects tradition and respects the diversity and individuality of national culture.

The reason why Bai Qing hates Claire and is unwilling to participate is because of Claire's artistic reflection.

The domestic art trend is exactly the opposite of Claire's. The domestic art circle has deified Western contemporary art, and only in China can these artistic ideas be deified. This made Bai Qing, who has received domestic education for so many years, a little disgusted for a while. .

What I hate is not that I think Claire was wrong, but that he exposed the truth nakedly.

This was also the reason why Chen Li'an had been busy attending various salons and seminars in Venice, while Bai Qing went shopping by himself.

This is actually normal. Chen Li'an has known these things from the beginning. This phenomenon is not only evident in the field of art, but also in all fields.

However, the greatest impact is still in the cultural field. The superiority of cultural export and ideology has subtly undermined the local culture of the third world.

Do you know that the dog and the male were created in this way?

Why do people feel that the moon outside is rounder in the 1980s and 1990s? Even more than 20 years later, when the country has become stronger, some people still feel that the moon outside is rounder. This is all due to the destructive destruction and the replacement of the roots of foreign culture. It took root and sprouted.

If he could talk about these issues all day and night, Chen Li'an would not be too lazy to think about it. He would not naively think that he could do any cultural export, and he would not think that he could do cultural export by just making a few TV series and movies.

There are too many things involved here, which cannot be changed by the film and television industry, unless you are an artist, writer, politician, thinker, sociologist, psychologist, etc., and you also have a large-scale media company under your name As well as spending endless amounts of money, in the end, there are many young men and women in the Western world who will help you charge into the battle and dig out the roots and graves.

Oh. I almost forgot, you must have the support of a strong country to have even the slightest possibility.

In fact, there is the simplest way to do it, which is to invent a time shuttle and return to Da Qin to present the elixir and world map to His Majesty.

Chen Li'an asked himself that it was impossible to do this. All he could do was to be an artist, nothing more, and do what he could within his own abilities.

Ordinary artist Chen Li'an doesn't have that much sense of mission. It's good to be an ordinary person. Why do you have to think so much when you come to a gathering with a group of artists?

Chen Li'an came to the gathering place, where he also met an acquaintance who was not an acquaintance, that is, Liu Zhangming, whom he met on the plane before, and another painter from China, Zhang Xiaogang.

Chen Li'an has seen the painting Zhang Xiaogang participated in this exhibition. It is a huge oil painting, Bloodline: Big Family No. 2. The auction price of this painting later reached more than 40 million. It is a very excellent work.

When they saw Chen Li'an arriving, they said hello and asked curiously: "Where is your partner?"

"She was confused and was trying to find a way to heal her wounds." Chen Li'an shrugged his shoulders and said with a smile.

Liu Zhangming smiled and said, "Then you should help her. Women always get into trouble."

Chen Li'an curled his lips and said, "Men prefer drilling."

"Haha, you're right." Liu Zhangming smiled and then introduced Chen Li'an: "This is Zhang Xiaogang, a very good painter."

Chen Li'an smiled, nodded, looked at Zhang Xiaogang and said, "I like your blood family very much. You explain Chinese family relationships very well."

"No, your work is also very good, very reflective, and very innovative." Zhang Xiaogang replied with a smile.

After Chen Li'an smiled and chatted with Zhang Xiaogang for a few words about their respective works, he remembered Liu Zhangming next to him, turned to look at him and asked, "Have you been in Italy and not returned to China?"

Liu Zhangming held the wine glass and explained: "No, I came here specifically for Christie's summer auction. Xiaogang's works will be included in the auction."

Chen Li'an glanced at Zhang Xiaogang beside him and nodded, then said with a smile: "I hope your work can get a good price."

"Will your works also participate in the summer auction this time?" Liu Zhangming asked proactively.

"Yes." Chen Li'an said bluntly: "But the buyer has already made a reservation."

There is nothing to hide about this kind of thing, and the rules in the art world are transparent to wealthy people.

Hearing Chen Li'an's words, Liu Zhangming was not surprised. He just nodded silently and said after a while: "I hope I can become your scheduled buyer if I have the opportunity in the future."

"Then I should thank you for your recognition." Chen Li'an raised his glass and clinked it with Liu Zhangming. After drinking, he looked at Claire, the organizer of the party in the distance, and said to Liu Zhangming and Zhang Xiaogang: "Maybe we should go talk to the owner here. Just a few words."

"certainly!"

"good."

It’s interesting to chat with Clay. He is a very traditional artist, and Chen Li’an often speaks out words that are very inspiring.

"Chen, your works are innovative. Although the patterns and forms are too fancy, you combine several different things very well. The most important thing is that the perspective you focus on is very interesting, and it has a very interesting perspective on people's social cognition and personal Ideological cognition has a very unique interpretation." After Claire finished speaking, she took a sip of wine and said, "Maybe you should pay more attention to your own art. It is not good to blindly innovate. Although it caters to the mainstream and the market, But the essential pursuit of art is lost.”

Chen Li'an was silent for a while and nodded slowly. The very beginning of the birth of art was for the continuation of the nation, whether it was text or murals.

The nationality, individuality and diversity of art. You should really add more national elements to your works. Only by having your own foundation can you bloom more beautiful flowers on this fertile soil.

I don’t dare to write too much in this chapter, so let’s leave it at that.