The Pentium Era - South to North

On July 10, 2016, the Shanghai Power Station of Art will hold "Impressions of Paris - Camille Pissarro Painting Exhibition". This is a Sino-French joint exhibition, including 42 works from Paris. The Louvre and Pompidou Cultural and Art Center, seven works of Pissarro, come from Zhang Chen’s “Riverside Oil Painting Gallery”.

April to June 2016 is the "Spring of Cultural Exchanges between China and France". Although this exhibition is already in July, it is still one of the activities of the "Spring of Cultural Exchanges between China and France". The reason why the exhibition is It was not placed in June, but in July, because July 10th is a special day.

July 10 is the birth day of Pissarro. Pissarro was born on July 10, 1830, on the island of St. Thomas in the Antilles. He died in Paris in 1903.

It is said that one of the conditions why France is willing to allow such a large number of Pissarro's original paintings to leave France and go to the East is that the seven original Pissarro paintings from the "Riverside Oil Painting Gallery" can also appear in this exhibition. Combined with these Pissarro works from Paris.

Pissarro was a master of French Impressionism and the only painter who participated in all eight exhibitions of Impressionism. It can be said that it was because of Pissarro that Impressionism was finally truly established. He was also a figure who connected the past and the future in modern art.

Two of the three masters of Post-Impressionism, Van Gogh, Gauguin and Cézanne, Gauguin told reporters more than once before Pissarro was alive and wrote in an article, "Pissarro is my teacher". Three years after Pissarro's death, Cezanne, the "father of modern painting", respectfully signed "Paul Cézanne, student of Pissarro" in the catalog of his exhibited works.

In order to promote this exhibition, the leaders of Shanghai Power Station of Art made a special trip to Hangzhou to discuss with Zhang Chen and Zhao Xin.

The predecessor of the Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art is the Shanghai Art Museum on Nanjing West Road. The Shanghai Art Museum on Nanjing West Road can be said to be the art temple in Zhang Chen’s heart. When he was still an artist at the Yongcheng Wu Opera Troupe, at that time, There is no direct train from Yongcheng to Shanghai. Zhang Chen needs to take a long-distance bus for a day from Yongcheng to Hangcheng, and from Hangcheng to Shanghai.

Zhang Chen had been to the Shanghai Art Museum at that time and had seen the Rodin Sculpture Exhibition and the "French Barbizon School Painting Exhibition". It can be said that this was the first time Zhang Chen saw the original works of world-class masters. Zhang Chen still clearly remembers the first time he saw Corot's oil painting. Standing there, his whole body was trembling. The shock was unforgettable.

In 2012, the Shanghai Art Museum on Nanjing West Road moved to the Urban Future Museum in the World Expo Park on the bank of the Huangpu River, and was renamed the Shanghai Contemporary Art Museum. The original site here was the Nanshi Power Plant, and Zhang Chen and his "riverside" "Oil Painting Gallery" is located in the former Genshan Power Plant in Hangcheng. It can be said that they have similar approaches but similar results.

Today, the original power generation workshop of the Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art, with its highest cantilevered 45-meter-high factory building and 165-meter-high power plant chimney, is both a city landmark in Shanghai and a special exhibition space.

When Zhang Chen arrived here for the first time, he lamented that it was a pity that the large chimney of Genshan Power Plant had been demolished due to safety reasons for surrounding buildings.

The Power Station of Art in Shanghai is the venue for the Shanghai Biennale and other major art exhibitions, and is also a cooperative venue for their "Riverside Oil Painting Gallery". Whether it was the original Shanghai Art Museum on Nanjing West Road or now, Zhang Chen didn't know I have visited here many times and I am very familiar with several leaders of the museum.

They asked the "Riverside Oil Painting Gallery" to support it, and Zhang Chen certainly agreed. After the exhibition ends in Shanghai, it will go back to Paris and be held at the Pompidou Culture and Art Center on November 13, the day Pissarro died. This is also one of the conditions for the center to hold the same exhibition, and the seven original Pissarro paintings from the "Riverside Oil Painting Gallery" will also go to Paris.

At noon on the 9th, Zhang Chen and Zhao Xin drove to Shanghai. They went directly to the Museum of Contemporary Art. They first went to see the arrangement of the exhibition, and then went to the Kempinski Hotel Lujiazui to stay. In the evening, they were going to attend the Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art. A dinner jointly organized with the Cultural Office of the French Consulate General in Shanghai.

It was already around two o'clock in the afternoon when Zhang Chen entered the room. He had just fallen down on the bed and was about to take a rest when his cell phone rang. It was Xiaoli.

As soon as the phone call came through, Xiaoli said anxiously: "Mr. Zhang, something happened."

"What's the matter?" Zhang Chen asked.

Xiaoli's voice stammered because she was nervous, and she said:

"Today, Mr. Zhang, at noon today, there was a customer. After eating the Chinese food we provided, everyone who attended had diarrhea. Now they have been sent to the Provincial Tongde Hospital. It is initially suspected to be food poisoning."

Zhang Chen's heart skipped a beat and he asked anxiously, "How are you doing now?"

"They are all still being checked in the hospital. The specific situation is not clear yet. I sent someone to wait at the hospital. Mr. Zhang, people from the CDC have arrived at our place and are blocking the entire processing workshop. All our orders at night, they, they They all asked us to cancel temporarily. When can we start again? We have to wait for the inspection, no, no, we have to wait for the results of the investigation to come out."

Xiaoli stammered, and Zhang Chen felt that his scalp was going to explode.

Food poisoning is what all catering companies fear most.

"Food and Drink" has been online for more than two months, and the response has been very good. They have successively opened more than a dozen cities, and now the number of branches has reached 46. More cities will be opened in the future. The location of the processing workshop has been confirmed, and personnel recruitment and training have begun.

The entire "Eating Men and Women" project has been going very smoothly, so smoothly that even Zhang Chen himself felt that it was too smooth.

He didn't expect that his second entrepreneurial venture would be so simple compared to the first one, and it would produce results immediately. Therefore, Zhang Chen was still a little doubtful and felt a little uneasy in his heart.

Zhang Chen is like this. When something goes too smoothly, he will feel that he does not deserve it. He will feel that something bad is slowly growing in a place that he does not know about, and eventually something will happen. what is the problem.

Thinking about it carefully, it turned out that the fashion show was a great success. Then something happened to Xiao Zhao, and Zhang Chen subconsciously became suspicious of everything around him.

Then, all their stores were very successful, but not long after, one by one had to disappear, including the factory in Xiasha. Such a behemoth must also disappear. This made Zhang Chen always feel that good things will never happen. If it goes on for too long, you won’t deserve or even deserve any good things.

In fact, it was not from that time, or even earlier, that the Chinatown project was stillborn, and the Wanghailou project was obviously over. That project could be said to have made him an instant success, and the future looked bright, but then……

Zhang Chen sighed, and Xiaoli continued on the other end of the phone:

"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told us that if there is a problem with our ingredients this time, according to regulations, they must notify the health supervision and CDC in all cities where we have branches to conduct a major inspection on us."

That would be the end of it, Zhang Chen thought to himself. If there was such a business closure inspection due to food poisoning, other competitors would not have to squeeze them out. This alone would be enough to make them lose customers and give them a fatal blow to the "food and beverage man". one strike.

After the great success of "Diet Men and Women", similar companies have appeared in some places. However, in terms of scale and customer reputation, they have not yet been able to have an impact on "Diet Men and Women". But if they are If there is a problem with the ingredients, they have defeated themselves.

"Also, Mr. Zhang..." Xiaoli murmured.

"What else?" Zhang Chen asked.

"Our ingredients are all imported from 'Zhai Xianshui', and quarantine personnel have also gone to 'Zhai Xianshui' to take samples, because no customers from 'Zhai Xianshui' have been poisoned, and the scope involved is too wide. , and did not let them stop. The quarantine personnel believed that there was a high probability that there was a problem with our processing links, so Beibei and the others escaped. If they stopped..."

When Xiaoli said this, she did not continue, and there was no need for her to continue. Zhang Chen also understood that if that happened, it would affect not one of their companies, but both of them.

Zhang Chen shook his head and patted his forehead with his hand, trying his best to calm himself down. He asked Xiaoli:

"How many orders did we receive in total at noon today in Hangzhou?"

Xiaoli said: "Today is Saturday, so there are many orders at noon, and I have received 132 orders."

"Do other customers have similar situations?" Zhang Chen asked.

"not yet."

Zhang Chen breathed a sigh of relief. He thought that if they received 132 orders at noon, they would have only one source of ingredients, which was "Zhai Xian Delivery", and their processing workshop also operated according to a unified operating procedure. With the same ingredients and processes as the original ones, it’s impossible for this company’s problem to only occur.

Zhang Chen felt that the possibility of a problem in their processing was not very high.

When they first designed the entire process, they had a premonition of this possibility and took precautions. Therefore, all ingredients were sealed and signed when leaving their processing workshop, and there was a possibility of problems in the transportation process. Sex is not big either.

If there is really a problem, Zhang Chen feels that there is only one possibility, and that is that there is a problem with the seasonings. Only the cooking seasonings brought to the scene are different for each house.

And if there is a problem with the seasoning, it is not their problem, but the seasoning manufacturer's problem. They will not be the only ones to have product quality problems with the same batch of products, and they will not be affected, but others. It's just that they haven't been discovered, or if they have been discovered, they haven't been contacted yet.

Zhang Chen and Xiao Li said: "You cooperate with the CDC's inspection, and by the way, let Zhang Xiangbei and the others also cooperate and try to investigate this matter clearly as soon as possible. Whether it is our fault or not, the shorter the process, the better." , strive to control the impact to the minimum range, of course, if it is our fault, we must accept whatever punishment we deserve."

"Okay, Mr. Zhang, I understand. Huijuan is here. She is very familiar with the people at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She is accompanying them to watch and retrieve the surveillance video of our processing workshop, especially the entire process of this order."

Xiao Li said and Zhang Chen nodded. Unexpectedly, their monitoring system could not only reassure customers, but could also be used for evidence collection in the event of an accident. Even if they died, they could die clearly.

"Mr. Zhang, I have to go down. I still have to fill out forms and sign. They are looking for me. If there is any new situation, I will call you again." Xiaoli said.

Zhang Chen said okay, go ahead and remember to actively cooperate.

After hanging up the phone, Zhang Chen could no longer fall asleep. He stood up and walked to the window, looking outside. In Shanghai in July, the sky was blue, but Zhang Chen's heart was uncertain.

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