Almighty painter

Chapter 412 Unstoppable

Gagosian waited on the podium for a few seconds before the boiling discussion in the audience subsided.

Red skin, thick neck.

He stood on the podium in front of the venue of the New Art Center, as if he were a statue made of red copper, and his whole appearance reflected the luster of the camera flashes under the stage.

Larry Gao Zhuxuan is a second-generation New York immigrant who is half Central Asian and half Eastern European. This makes his facial features vaguely resemble the public impression of a simple and honest man from the prairie who rides a horse and whips his whip.

But it's a simple fact.

Any businessman who can start from scratch by standing on the small balcony of the apartment next to the brothel in New York's red light district, selling an illustrated poster of the lowest level of contempt for fifty cents, and eventually sell it for billions of dollars.

They will not be simple, honest and simple people.

Compared to the three-square-meter balcony where he started his business.

It has been passed down from Gu Tongxiang's family that the calligraphy and painting shops are as luxurious and magnificent as the entire Louvre.

And fifty years later.

When Gu Tongxiang looked back on Gu Weijing's life, he was proud of his achievements in increasing his net worth from 15 US dollars to 500 US dollars, sending his son to study abroad, and renovating the family's old house. Moreover, the old man had indeed become a When the luckier ones stand out in the surrounding environment.

A contemporary of Gagosian.

He has transformed into one of the top leaders of the world's art trend.

In simpler words.

He is really too stupid.

For example, the fat classical oil painter Kazunari Sakai, the meticulous master Tang Ning, and the illustration giant Jane Arnold... When the public media introduces these artistic figures to readers, they often add some prefixes and nicknames to highlight their achievements. .

However, here at Gagosian, no prefix is ​​needed.

Gagosian is Gagosian.

He is like Sir Brown, the Irene family, or Picasso, Leonardo da Vinci, these names are the same.

When everyone hears this name, they should immediately realize that the other person is the owner of Gagosian Gallery——

The world's number one gallerist.

Therefore, the first sentence he spoke on stage caused a chain reaction like a wave in the entire annual meeting.

Sir Brown's honorific title is "The Pope of Art".

Gagosian was dubbed the "Art Czar" because of his extremely tough approach and close relationship with Russia's super-rich.

Take a look at the entire venue.

If there is anyone whose financial resources are close to those of the Elena family, and whose status and influence are close to those of Sir Brown.

Then it’s just Gagosian.

He is also the only person in the room who is qualified and has sufficient reasons to choose to side with Anna and be dissatisfied with the reform of "Oil Painting" magazine.

Because what Sir Brown did was always what Gagosian desperately wanted to accomplish by relying on his powerful influence.

There can only be one Ho Nam in Causeway Bay.

There can only be one emperor in the art world.

Gagosian dominates the commercial competition in the art market, doubling the global art transaction volume, and has spent more than ten years unifying the market.

Whether the reunification will be successful or not will be put aside for now.

The contestants were fighting to the death in the market, and at the critical moment when smashed banknotes were flying everywhere, the referee with a whistle in his mouth suddenly warmed up and left the game himself.

What kind of trouble is this!

Can we still have fun?

Coach, coach, I want to report it, FUCK, someone is trying to do something shady, please call the police!

If top gallerists like Gagosian feel happy, then that's a ghost.

It is normal to make some weird and sarcastic remarks on the stage. Even if you jump on your feet and start scolding directly, it may not be impossible to do it.

Elliot held the dog in his arms, prepared peanuts and melon seeds, and looked forward to watching the movie in the audience.

Although it does not help alleviate the pressure on the young lady within the magazine, just watching this "Battle of the Two Emperors" drama can imagine Sir Brown's embarrassing mood.

The secretary felt that her damaged skin due to being upset and lacking sleep in the past two days had become much brighter and moisturized!

As a result, this is it?

And the great Larry Gagosian didn't even fight, he just knelt down and waved the white flag.

The Tsar is not that good either.

Elliot clenched his fists tightly, wishing he could use August's oily fur as a big towel, bury his face in it and cry.

Before the other party came on stage, Bai was cheering him on in his heart for a long time.

"No no no no……"

Elliot realized something was wrong.

She suddenly understood.

Since Sir Brown can privately contact important artists who want to sign contracts, how could he forget to include these super galleries in his territory.

The other party's ambition is greater than they imagined.

Sir Brown is not only integrating the inside of Oil Painting magazine... he wants to integrate the entire global art market!

Those who follow me will prosper, and those who go against me will perish.

Something must have happened during the recent period when Miss Irina was expelled from the board of directors that she was unaware of.

Look at Gagosian smiling on the podium.

That's not how a loser who surrenders without a fight should behave when he raises the white flag and surrenders.

The two parties must have reached a private agreement on the exchange of interests.

Not important anymore.

None of this matters now.

No matter what Sir Brown paid.

The moment Gagosian stood on the stage and announced that his gallery had joined the future plans of "Oil Painting", he had already won.

Big win, special win.

Suddenly, it was like going back in time in the Western art market.

Four or five hundred years ago, the era when someone could rule the entire art field with personal supreme authority has returned again.

This time.

It is no longer the white-robed His Majesty in the Papal Palace Castle on the shores of the sparkling Rhône Lake, but this old man in a suit and tie in the Nouveau Art Center.

He is already the most powerful man in arts media.

About to become the most powerful person in the entire art field.

Sir Brown would become richer and more famous than any major artist.

Because he can easily destroy or boost any artist's reputation and high-end business contracts, just like God, he can do anything he wants.

And they have nothing to lose.

Sir Brown has become the god of art.

Who can stop God?

The noise and discussion not only stayed at the annual meeting, but also spread to all parts of the world with camera lenses and optical fibers traveling at a speed of 30 kilometers per second.

There was an explosion of exponential growth across the internet.

Gu Weijing stopped rubbing his fingers on the skin of the cat's squinted melon. Awang's squinted eyes opened a slit, looking at the owner who frowned slightly in confusion. Meow?

Gu Weijing shook his head gently.

His sensitivity to the industry and his ability to capture industry risks are far from enough to figure out the joints with just one sentence from Gagosian.

He just relied on his instinctive intuition and felt uneasy about the matter.

The entire "Oil Painting" magazine was not impressed by his "Detective Cat" vest.

A hostile relationship had already arisen, but the sales of "The Little Prince" were too hot, so they had to ask Sir Brown and others to suppress the matter and deal with it coldly.

Gagosian Gallery and Oil Painting have reached a higher level of in-depth cooperation.

Based on his personal interests, it should not be something worthy of being happy about.

The comment area of ​​TIKTOK's live broadcast also exploded at this time.

Hundreds of discussions are refreshed in a matter of seconds.

If the IPAD's chip decoding capability were not powerful enough for mobile platforms, it would even become laggy because the number of comments would increase too much.

"Is Larry Gagosian surrendering to Oil Painting? It's so disappointing. This is not his character."

"Sir Brown is already invincible. What if you don't surrender? After solving the problem of Elena, I declare that the art world has officially entered the era of Sir Brown."

"This is the Pope of Art."

"Do you want to explain what the '2023 New Era Muse Project' actually represents and why you are having such a lively discussion. Please help me, boss."

"..."

Gu Weijing stared at the tablet screen without saying a word.

Gagosian on the podium reached down and suppressed the discussion and noise around him, then raised his head, looked away from the speech notes, and cleared his throat.

"Cough cough."

"This is big news. I know many people have questions to ask. I have too much content and details of cooperation to share. Believe me, I also want to say it. But, Chairman Brown is sitting down right now. .”

"Since from now on, many of us gallery owners may have to look at his eyes to make a living, you know..."

Gagosian pouted.

"I don't dare to steal Chairman Brown's limelight and dominate the show here."

There was also a burst of knowing chuckles from the audience.

Sir Brown shrugged and smiled bitterly at the camera, seeming to disagree with Gagosian's statement but helpless.

"So, if you have any questions, just wait until you ask Chairman Brown. He will be today's prom queen, the most beautiful person in this venue. I just happen to be honored to be the first one here. Announced to become part of the future territory of "Oil Painting", but it will never be the last one."

"Now, please allow me to humbly ask everyone to temporarily take five minutes away from curiosity about the big plan of "Oil Painting" and listen to me talk about the value of artists in the primary and secondary markets from the perspective of the rise and fall of the American gallery industry..."

Gagosian's statement is very humorous.

On any other occasion, it would be a very rewarding and rare opportunity to listen to the opinions and analysis of industry trends from a big boss who has risen from the bottom to the top of society.

but now.

No matter how good he speaks, no one is listening.

Even if he is as awesome as Gagosian, today he has the misfortune of becoming the reading companion who accompanies the prince to study, or the short-legged bespectacled girl who steps in before the prom queen appears.

The focus of attention both on and off the court has long since shifted away from things other than his speeches.

The live online discussion intensified.

"What is this guy talking about? Get down quickly. Who cares, who wants to hear this. I'm just waiting for Sir Brown to come on stage."

"Render to God what is God's, and to Caesar what is Caesar's. This statement does not work in the field of art. The Tsar had to kneel before the Pope."

"What do you mean? Why can't I understand it?"

"How come there are still people who don't know about the struggle between the Elena family and the management of "Oil Painting"? Bro, your home just got access to the Internet?"

"I don't care, I don't care, I'm just here to see the pretty girl. Which side is she on? Where do I stand? Hug her!"

"Stop getting mad here!"

"..."

Time passed by minute by minute.

The spotlight was locked on the podium covered with red carpet. One by one, important dignitaries came on the stage to applause and bowed down to the applause.

Figures swayed and applause surged.

When the new art center that occupies the heart of the city of Gleze was built, it was criticized as an "alien egg" by those who didn't like it because of its weird sci-fi exterior design.

Perhaps even the designers would not have thought that it would one day become the artistic heart of the entire Europe, and even the artistic heart of the entire Western world.

It attracts the attention of all art practitioners.

this day.

A reporter from the New Yorker in the media area in the audience wrote in a poetic way in a news flash sent to the headquarters - [The humid air blows through the early morning in Glez City, sitting high on the sacred mountain of Olympus. The muse of China casts a ray of moonlight towards the heart of Central Europe. The colorful butterfly flying into the new era is hatching in the abdominal cavity of the alien insect, swaying in front of my eyes and preparing to emerge from the cocoon. Heading towards the next century. 】

[We missed the wave of Romanticism and Impressionism. I have never seen Van Gogh or Picasso face to face. But at this moment, everyone around me has never felt so clearly that a new era of art is coming. 】

Even Gu Weijing, who was in an "art desert", began to smell the flavor of the sea before the big wave was coming from the speeches of the big guys.

No one cares what Gagosian said in his speech anymore.

But his prophecy was “I am honored to be the first to announce here that I will become a part of the future territory of “Oil Painting”, but I will never be the last.”

In the next three and a half hours, it was fulfilled repeatedly.

Lisson Gallery, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, Perrotin Gallery, CDX Gallery, London female painter Cecily Brown whose single-item auction record can still beat Tangning, Spanish national treasure experimental painter Miquel Barcelo, Hamburg Artists Association Vice Chairman Albert Oehlen...

At least two-thirds of the invited guests at the annual meeting announced that they would join the "Muse New Era" project launched by "Oil Painting".

At the beginning.

The comment section is still counting the number of artists and gallery representatives who have announced themselves as collaborators on oil paintings.

Soon, people even felt numb.

It was surprising only when a handful of guests took to the podium without declaring themselves part of the Muse Project.

"How many are there already?" someone asked in the comment area.

"Including the founder of CDX on the stage, there are currently six intercontinental galleries and eight top artists who have been included in the development map of "Oil Painting"." You Jiujun reported.

"This European Art Annual Conference should simply be renamed 'Oil Painting Magazine Signing Press Conference'. Apart from this content, there is nothing else. Does the organizing committee allow them to use the stage to perform like this?"

"If it can arouse such a wide response, no matter what "Oil Painting" wants to do, it can already be regarded as a collective trend in the entire European art industry. What reason does the organizing committee have to block it?" A netizen explained: "However, I guess , with so many art leaders joining, the so-called Muse Project should not be too strict, and more like a loose industry alliance like a gallerist association. Otherwise, it would be too scary. .”

"It's too scary now. I read online before that the oil painting team was in contact with many big artists. At that time, I thought it would be like Saudi Arabia trying to sign one or two stars like Neymar and Mbappe. Draining traffic and exposing handwriting. When Gagosian just came on stage, I discovered that I was wrong. It turned out that Oil Painting magazine was so big that it bought the entire Real Madrid." Someone exclaimed, "Looking at it now, I find that I still underestimated Oil Painting. It’s so scary, they didn’t just buy Real Madrid, they also bought Barcelona, ​​Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal and AC Milan.”

"This is not about forming a Galactico to win the Champions League. "Oil Painting" is about creating a European Super League by yourself and playing with yourself! Artists who cannot join this small circle will only lose their exposure and attention. , a dead end, this is the end of everyone who is not in the same boat as Sir Brown." Other netizens understood what the other party was saying.

"It's a pity that no one will stand up and stop their ambitions like the British Prime Minister announced legislation to stop the European Super League." Someone sighed quietly in the comment area.

In the lens at this time.

An old fox as deep as Sir Brown couldn't help but look at the scene where the world's heroes fell in love with me, and couldn't help but show a proud smile on his lips.

He suddenly froze.

Because he found that Anna beside him was also smiling.

(End of this chapter)