Fringe artists in the entertainment industry

Chapter 168 166. Artists with their own traffic

In the quiet courtyard, Chen Li'an, who had just eaten a soft meal, put away the phone and entered the house. He saw that Beauty Chen had finished taking a bath and was waiting for him.

However, Chen Li'an feels that he has been in the sage time recently. He only has physical respect for Chen Meiren in sexy pajamas, but psychologically he has no troubles.

Chen Meiren put one hand under the pillow, touched the special little umbrella, and curled her fingers at Chen Li'an.

"What, I'm not sleepy yet. I want to read the script of Red River Valley. Although I don't invest in it, the script is really good." Chen Li'an made an excuse and said.

Chen Meiren frowned, looked at Chen Li'an and said: "When can I not read the script? And there is no investment. I don't know if it can be filmed."

"Do you have no feelings for me anymore?" Chen Meiren immediately sat up and looked at Chen Li'an and asked, her little face bulging with anger, like a kitten about to get angry.

Chen Li'an quickly walked over to comfort him and proved himself with his actual actions. Chen Li'an pinched Mei Chen's chin, put one hand around her waist, and said softly: "How come I don't have feelings for you? If you don't believe me, just touch her."

Beauty Chen gently grabbed it with her little hand, then looked at Chen Li'an with charming eyes and said, "I have prepared a surprise for you. Please take a closer look at my clothes."

Chen Li'an glanced down and saw it through the white translucent pajamas. He glanced down again, and his mouth suddenly felt dry.

through! Why is it still true? Ahem, there is too little fabric, and the lace skirt cannot even cover her thighs. The looming feeling and the illumination of the light make it extra sexy.

Chen Li'an immediately broke away from time, picked up Beauty Chen and said, "I think it will look better if I go to the bathroom and take a shower to get wet."

"Where do you get all these weird ideas?" Chen Meiren hooked her arms around Chen Li'an's neck, breathed softly into his ear and said softly, "But I like you like this best."

Who doesn't like the temptation of a wet body? It's the highest level of sexiness.

However, you must pay attention to the water temperature when taking a bath in early autumn, otherwise it is easy to catch a cold. After coming out of the bathroom more than an hour later, Chen Meiren felt a little dizzy, her face was red, and her limbs were weak and a little sore.

Chen Li'an touched Mei Chen's forehead and breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that she had no fever.

Chen Meiren hugged Chen Li'an like a stove, rubbed her arms in his arms and said, "Don't move, it feels so comfortable to hold you. Just sleep in this position."

"Well, but could you please let go of your hands first? I can't sleep like this." Chen Li'an looked down and said helplessly.

"No, it's so warm. Cover your hands with me. You have to hold on! I'll keep you warm later."

"I, you, are you serious about keeping warm?"

"Yes! But you have to keep it up first."

In the dark bedroom, Chen Li'an closed his eyes and sighed quietly.

Early the next morning, Chen Li'an looked at Mei Chen who was still sleeping, quietly loosened her fingers, and then got up carefully.

After simply tidying up, Chen Li'an was ready to leave, but before leaving, he couldn't help but gently scratched Mei Chen's nose. She had too many bad sleeping habits!

Chen Li'an also wants to go to Bai Qing's place for a soft breakfast. It's really hard for a man to have money.

At a quarter past seven, Chen Li'an arrived at Bai Qing's house with breakfast in hand. After knocking on the door for a while, Bai Qing came to open the door full of resentment.

"Why are you here so early!" Bo Qing yawned and wanted to kick Chen Li'an out.

Chen Li'an shook the breakfast in his hand and said, "Aren't I afraid that you won't have breakfast? You don't know a good heart."

"I don't want to eat. I want to continue sleeping. You can sleep with me for a while." Bo Qing didn't even look at the breakfast, and pulled Chen Li'an towards the bedroom.

It seemed that he still couldn't eat breakfast and could only eat soft rice. Chen Li'an followed Bai Qing to the bedroom, transformed into a pillow that could not move, speak or breathe loudly, and allowed Bai Qing to hold him with his hands and feet and sleep soundly.

It turned out that he was really sleeping with her. Chen Li'an looked at the ceiling. This was the first time he had done this kind of sleeping with her. He had to perform well and not let Sister Fu down.

But Chen Li'an didn't persist for a while and fell asleep himself. When he woke up, it was already past 12 noon.

Looking at the empty big bed, Chen Li'an was annoyed that his performance was not very good, how could he still sleep so soundly.

Chen Li'an went out to look around, and saw Bo Qing in the study, wearing a loose T-shirt, leaning on a chair, holding a carving knife in his hand and carving details on the already formed sculpture.

Standing at the door, Chen Li'an could only see that the sculpture was a bust of a man, but could not see his face, so he walked around and took a look, and was surprised to find that it was himself.

"How is it? Does it look like it?" Bo Qing put down the carving knife in his hand, wiped his palm casually on the rag, took a half step back, took a look and said: "I can't always carve your eyes well, they have no charm. .”

Chen Li'an looked carefully at the sculpture that was almost identical to his own, then looked at the somewhat hollow eyes and said, "It would be better if the eye sockets were deeper."

Upon hearing this, Bo Qing came over and looked at Chen Li'an and then at the sculpture. Then he picked up the carving knife and gently scratched the sculpture's eye sockets a few times.

The originally somewhat hollow look in his eyes immediately became much deeper. Bai Qing was a little surprised by this change. He excitedly pulled Chen Li'an and asked, "What else do you think needs to be changed?"

Chen Li'an looked at it for a while and said: "The overall proportions seem to be a little wrong. It will probably be very troublesome if you want to adjust them."

"There is indeed one thing. I haven't touched this for two or three years, and my hands are raw." After Bai Qing stared at his work for a while, he directly grabbed a carving knife and inserted it into the chin of the sculpture. Cut off a big piece.

Chen Li'an's eyelids jumped when he saw it, and he subconsciously touched his chin.

"Look again, is it much better?" Bai Qing asked after smoothing the missing piece with his fingers.

Chen Li'an touched his chin and said seriously and responsibly: "It's perfect, just like looking in the mirror."

Bai Qing glanced at Chen Li'an, threw the carving knife in his hand on the table, sat on the chair and asked, "Why do you want so much money? Where is your money?"

"For investment." Chen Li'an didn't explain it clearly.

"Okay, I'll go to the bank and transfer it to you later." Bo Qing didn't care, and then asked: "What happened when you told me about the signing last time? What are you going to say to Ji Fa?"

Chen Li'an held a piece of clay in his hand and held it casually. He thought for a moment and then said: "Ji Fa mainly deals in art transactions. If I want to hold an exhibition, she can't help much. Managers and curators The difference is still huge.”

"Of course the main reason is that Ji Fa is not interested in installation art and performance art, and he does not make money."

Bo Qing nodded. Not to mention Ji Fa, she was not very interested in performance art and installation art. However, considering the current artistic atmosphere and business environment in China, installation art has just sprouted, and many artists are still at home. Doing installation art.

Performance art is something that people are even more vigilant about. If they go out of their way even a little bit, they will be arrested, locked up for a few days and given an ideological education.

Ideological education is very interesting. If you provide ideological education to artists, the final result will only make them feel unfree, and the effect of education will not be achieved at all.

This is real. In the past few years, there have been many performance arts that have been arrested and educated in Beijing. No one understands this art form.

"So this is why you want to sign a contract with that Cheng Shufen?" Bai Qing paused and asked seriously: "But isn't she a celebrity agent? She has nothing to do with installation art or performance art."

Chen Li'an smiled and said: "Looking at it individually, it's really irrelevant, but her company has a lot of curatorial experience in Asia and even around the world. They are also looking for new attempts. The combination of entertainment agency and art is very suitable for installation art." develop.

Installation art itself has commercial attributes and is the interaction between people and public space. There are not many large shopping malls in China now, so it is not suitable for installation art at all. Even if you want to create a public art space alone, the domestic business environment is not suitable. "

Chen Li'an sighed and said, "If it weren't for the current economic development in China, I wouldn't want to tie myself up by signing a contract. It would be difficult for installation art itself to live without developed brokerage conditions."

Installation art has become very popular abroad, but it is still in its infancy in China. The current focus in China is on economic development, and it has not yet reached the point of combining economy and art.

Even the 798 Art Center in Beijing will have to wait a few years to be established before people will notice the commercial value of public art spaces. If Chen Li'an wants to play installation art in China now, besides having fun with a group of people at home on a small scale, basically No chance of success.

It doesn’t matter if he’s enjoying himself, the main reason is that there isn’t that much space in China for Chen Li’an to engage in installation art, so he can’t buy a house just for making one work.

Based on Chen Li'an's strong desire to create, how many houses would he have to buy?

It will be much better in commercially developed areas. There are a large number of public art spaces in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Seoul, New York and other places. Even if the conditions are worse, large shopping malls will still have demand for installation art.

However, these are just Chen Li'an's own thoughts. He has not told Cheng Shufen that if the final development plan given by Cheng Shufen is biased towards actors and artists, then Chen Li'an will not sign the contract.

If on the contrary, even if Cheng Shufen's plan is not perfect and does not meet Chen Li'an's expectations, as long as it is more inclined to artistic development, Chen Li'an will choose to sign a contract with her. The details can be discussed, but if the general direction is wrong, then there will be no fun.

Even Chen Li'an himself has thought about how to combine celebrities and art. If a star has enough fame and fans, then the installation art he creates will naturally have commercial value, and there is no need to worry about profitability.

There will even be more cooperation with some shopping malls. Which one is more likely to be welcomed by shopping malls: a celebrity installation art or an installation art that is not famous among ordinary people?

To put it bluntly, it means bringing your own traffic!

After Chen Li'an and Bo Qing chatted for more than half an hour, Bo Qing also understood Chen Li'an's plan and felt that this was indeed a good entry point. Art also needs business to survive.

But Bai Qing suddenly thought of something interesting and quickly found his new mobile phone to make a call.

"Hey, Master Li, you've just started working now, right? There's no need to do anything now. When I notify you, I will pay you the wages as normal."

After Bai Qing took the phone to explain, he looked at Chen Li'an and said, "I think it's best for others to see your stuff before you sign the contract. Our studio is your first art space!"

Chen Li'an guessed it when he heard Bai Qing's call, and said with a smile: "This is best, but it's not possible now. You can lend me the money first. I'm in a hurry."

Bo Qing, who was in high spirits, rolled his eyes when he heard Chen Li'an's words and said, "Ruin the atmosphere! If you can't afford the money, you can open a decoration company in the future and play with your installation art while making money to pay me back!"

"No, you're still afraid that I won't be able to pay for one million. The painting I painted for you is now more than that, right?" Chen Li'an rolled his eyes at Bo Qing angrily.

Bai Qing snorted softly and said: "You gave it to me. You borrowed the money yourself, unless you are willing to pledge yourself to it!"

"Stingy woman." Chen Li'an snorted, then thought of the decoration company that Bai Qing just mentioned, and suddenly thought of an idea, and said to Bai Qing: "You said that if I build a public art space in every city, then Can I make money by selling some arts and crafts, coffee, clothes, etc.?"

"Don't ask me if you don't know. I'm not interested in money."

"Then I won't pay you back."

"Okay, just use it as a dowry."

"I'll pay you back next year!"

"roll!"

(Chapter One.)