The Pentium Era - South to North

Zhang Chen’s first phone call was to Lao Ju, who is now a world-renowned artist. When Zhang Chen called him, Lao Ju was not in Shanghai, but in Paris. He was attending the Pompidou Culture and Art Conference At the invitation of the Center, "Liberty Leading the People" was produced and exhibited.

The exhibition will last for two months from July 27th to September 27th, and will then begin a global tour.

One hundred and eighty-six years ago, on July 27, the "July Revolution" broke out in Paris. The citizens of Paris revolted and overthrew the Bourbon dynasty. From July 27 to 29, 1830, The citizens of Paris fought against the royalists and finally occupied the palace. Charles X fled to England. These three days were known in history as the "Three Glorious Days."

The Louvre, 1.4 kilometers away from the Pompidou Center for Culture and Art, displays Delacroix's famous oil painting "Liberty Leading the People", which depicts the most critical battle of the July Revolution, the street fighting in Paris. Scenes.

In the smoke, Clara Lessing, a young woman wearing a Phrygian skullcap, raised her right hand high, holding a red, white and blue tricolor flag, the tricolor flag Fluttering in the wind, her left hand held an infantry gun with a bayonet. With this posture, she led the Paris citizens behind her to attack the royalist barricades.

The tricolor flag is now the national flag of France, and the image of Clara Lessing has become the French Statue of Liberty, deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

To the left of Clara Lessing is the Parisian boy Allaire brandishing a cavalry pistol.

Different from Delacroix's romantic painting style, Lao Ju's installation exhibition uses an objective and calm attitude to show the panoramic view of Paris during the July Revolution. If careful viewers look carefully, they can see Among the thousands of porcelain dolls, you can find Clara Lessing and the young Allaire, but they are just one of the many Paris citizens and are not particularly outstanding.

The fact is that there is not much information about Clara Lessing now. After the July Revolution, no one knew about Clara Lessing’s experience. This woman, the symbol of the Statue of Liberty, became freer after the July Revolution. , or even less free, and no one knows that whether it is Clara Lessing or Alaire, they have long been annihilated in time.

History is the narration of the victors, and it will always show its splendor and eye-catchingness in frozen pictures, but this is not the real history. The real history needs to be restored in the dimensions of time and space.

What Lao Ju does is this restoration work.

There is a seven-hour time difference between Paris and Beijing. When he received Zhang Chen’s call, Lao Ju was still in bed and hadn’t gotten up. The cell phone on the bedside table rang. He reached for it and looked at it. He saw that it was Zhang Chen’s phone number. Lao Ju He sat up on the bed.

"Mr. Zhang, have you arrived in Paris?"

Lao Ju asked. The reason why he asked this was because when the exhibition was about to be launched, Lao Ju invited Zhang Chen to attend the opening ceremony. Unfortunately, it was Zhang Chen's busiest time at that time, so he did not go there and promised to go there when he had time. .

In fact, being busy is just one reason. The bigger reason is that Zhang Chen really hates going abroad. The more than ten hours of air travel will make him feel uncomfortable.

Zhang Chen said no, I am still in Hangzhou.

"Then what are your orders, Mr. Zhang?" Lao Ju asked.

"I dare not give you orders. You are already a knight of the French Order of Arts and Letters. How dare I give you orders?"

Zhang Chen and Lao Ju said that there is such an event, which is a charity performance and charity sale to help poor farmers. I would like to ask if you can participate.

"What did you do?" Lao Ju asked.

"Absolutely. My son is doing this and needs my support." Zhang Chen said with a smile, "I'm going to take out two paintings from the art gallery and participate in the charity sale."

"Oh, Mr. Zhang." Lao Ju thought for a moment and said to Zhang Chen, "How about I donate "The Battle of Feishui"?"

Zhang Chen was startled and shouted quickly: "How can this be done? It's too expensive! Just donate a few of the dolls."

"The Battle of Feishui" is Lao Ju's first large-scale work. Zhang Chen saw it in Lao Ju's studio in Shanghai, and helped him complete it, and held its first exhibition at the "Riverside Oil Painting Gallery". From here, with the help of Zhang Chen, Lao Ju went to the United States to exhibit his works, which caused a sensation and began to spread around the world.

Precisely because "The Battle of Feishui" is Lao Ju's first set of works, Lao Ju himself treasures it very much. Many collectors have paid high prices to collect this set of works, but Lao Ju has not sold it.

Lao Ju smiled on the phone and said: "It is a whole and cannot be divided. If it were anyone else, I would definitely not be able to part with it. You, Mr. Zhang, didn't you just say oh, this set of works would not have been completed without your support. I don’t know where to display it after it’s finished. Mr. Zhang, the stuff is still in Shanghai. I’ll ask my assistant in Shanghai to contact you immediately to see how to send it there.”

Zhang Chen said yes, thank you very much, Lao Ju.

"I want to thank Nong, but I never had the chance." Lao Ju said.

Putting down the phone, Zhang Chen and Zhang Xiangbei Wu Huan said, "Okay, this charity sale is over. Do you know what the starting price can be for Lao Ju's set of "The Battle of Feishui"?"

Zhang Xiangbei and Wu Huan both shook their heads, how could they know this.

"More than fifteen hundred US dollars." Zhang Chen said.

Wu Huan shouted: "That's 10,000 yuan."

Zhang Chen burst into laughter: "Ten thousand yuan? Ten thousand yuan is not enough to transport it from Shanghai to Hangzhou for freight and insurance. I mean ten thousand, more than fifteen million US dollars."

"Ah!" Zhang Xiangbei and Wu Huan were both startled. Only then did they realize how embarrassing Zhang Chen's phone call was.

Zhang Chen’s second call was to Xu Lijun. Xu Lijun is an oil painter that is very popular among collectors and auction houses in China. At Sotheby’s spring auction in Hong Kong this year, one of Xu Lijun’s oil paintings sold for 3,000 yuan. A high price of HKD 2.85 million.

Xu Lijun studied in the Suzhou Institute of Arts and Crafts as an undergraduate, and is an alumnus of Zhao Xin. He studied in the Oil Painting Department of the China Academy of Art as a graduate student, and is a classmate of Xiaoshu.

Xu Lijun's family is from a rural area in northern Jiangsu, and his family situation is relatively poor. From undergraduate to graduate school, he has always been the recipient of financial support from Zhang Chen and his "Riverside Oil Painting Gallery".

The phone rang more than a dozen times, but no one answered. Zhang Chen just put down his phone when his phone rang. When he looked, it was not Xu Lijun's number, but an unfamiliar number. Zhang Chen picked it up and it turned out to be Lao Ju's number. An assistant in Shanghai asked Zhang Chen how he transported "The Battle of Feishui" to Hangzhou.

In this set of works, in addition to the huge photos, there are also boxes of dolls, which are enough for a truck. Zhang Chen said to her, I will ask the boss of my Shanghai Logistics Base to contact you and ask him to Take someone to do the shipment yourself.

The other party said yes, then I'll wait for Mr. Zhang's call.

The call was hung up, and a new call came in immediately. This time it was Xu Lijun. As soon as the call came through, Xu Lijun was smiling on the other end. Zhang Chen was surprised and asked:

"Why are you laughing? It's ridiculous for me to call you?"

"No, no, Teacher Zhang, I just went to defecate and didn't hear the call."

Xu Lijun said that from the first day he met Zhang Chen, he called Zhang Chen Teacher Zhang and has been calling him Teacher Zhang until now.

Zhang Chen asked: "What do you enjoy about having a bowel movement?"

"I held it in for more than two hours and now I'm completely relaxed."

Xu Lijun said that Zhang Chen also laughed, knowing that he was addicted to painting and was reluctant to put down the brush in his hand.

Zhang Chen told Xu Lijun about the charity sale, and Zhang Chen asked:

"Can you give me a small thing to add to the fun? It could be a sketch or sketch, or something like that."

"No." Xu Lixing refused, and then said: "Teacher Zhang, I want to choose a piece of work and send it to you personally. You treat me to dinner."

"Of course there is no problem with eating, but there is really no need to get something too good." Zhang Chen said.

There was silence on the other end of the phone for a while, and then Xu Lixing said:

"Teacher Zhang, you also know that I come from the countryside. I have been doing farm work at home since I was a child. I don’t need others to tell me how hard it is for farmers. I watched the 'Zhai Xian Delivery' activity on the Internet. I have been there, and Xiaoshu also told me that I knew it was your master who was doing it.

"During the Qingming Festival, I accompanied my parents back to my hometown from Beijing to visit their graves. I also saw several needy families in the village and participated in this activity. Now my life is much better. Teacher Zhang, please let me do my part."

Zhang Chen said okay, thank you, Xu Lijun.

"Is it right that the charity bazaar will be broadcast live through the 'Zhaixianshui' website?" Xu Lijun asked.

Zhang Chen is right.

"There were a few collectors who came to me directly and said they wanted to buy my paintings. I asked them to join in and take photos online." Xu Lijun said, Zhang Chen said yes, that's great.

After hanging up the phone, Zhang Chen and Zhang Xiangbei and Wu Huan said, Okay, with their two works, this charity sale will be no surprise and will definitely cause a sensation.

"Zhang Xiangbei, I asked Zhao Xin to donate two paintings from the collection of the 'Riverside Oil Painting Gallery' in the name of your mother. If your mother knows that you are doing this, she will be very happy." Zhang Chen said, "Also, go and ask for it yourself from your uncle's place. These five paintings are enough. They can be sold at this charity sale and they won't be ugly."

The market price of Xiaoshu's oil paintings has now risen to over RMB 10 million. Zhang Xiangbei said, "Okay, if he doesn't give it to me, I'll grab one."

As a result, Xiaoshu not only gave me, but also gave me two paintings.

The news of the charity sale and the catalog of works were posted online. The charity sale has not even started yet, but it has already aroused enthusiastic responses on the Internet. Anyone who knows the business knows that this is a genuine and high-level charity sale, not the kind of show-off activity. For the charity sale, many collectors at home and abroad paid deposits and provided proof of funds.

Because it is an online auction, especially because they are afraid of rivals disrupting the auction, Zhang Xiangbei and the others require buyers to pay a deposit to participate in the auction, and must also provide proof of funds to prove that you are indeed capable of buying the auction. Any piece of work.

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Zhang Chen asked the "Riverside Oil Painting Gallery" to sign up, with the intention of taking a picture of Lao Ju's "Battle of Feishui". Lao Ju once proposed to give "The Battle of Feishui" to the "Riverside Oil Painting Gallery", but Zhang Chen did not accept it. Now, , Zhang Chen thought he could take a photo of it.

The first exhibition of "The Battle of Feishui" was on display at the "Riverside Oil Painting Gallery", which was very meaningful to Lao Ju. It was also very meaningful to Zhang Chen and the others at the "Riverside Oil Painting Gallery". It's written in their external promotional materials.

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