According to the plan, this photography exhibition will only be open for one day, and many buyers with intention to purchase will be invited to visit on that day.
But even Mr Abbott didn't expect so many people to buy.
At six o'clock in the afternoon that day, all but the most common works in the hall were sold. A total of 105 works were on display, and only 24 were left, which sold for 2.2 million euros.
Quite a few, for Abbott.
But the price of photos is inherently lower than that of oil paintings, and the time it takes to complete a piece of work is incomparable, so it is pretty good to be able to sell more than two million yuan in one day.
The expensive ones haven't been sold yet.
It is not yet known to whom the Buddha's light belongs.
Because the one-day art exhibition was expected to be extended, it would have to wait until three days later to end with the Arles prize opening ceremony. However, most of the works were sold by this time, and the next two days were open to the public as normal.
Chen Xing wasn't that concerned and took time to go there for two hours every day, or even just took Hedwig around for a trip.
There is a place called Avignon just over 30 kilometers away from Arles. It has also been a popular tourist attraction in southern France recently because the annual Avignon Theater Festival is being held here.
The two places are so close that it only takes more than half an hour to drive there. All tourists who come to South France will basically drive to Arles to participate in the photography festival if they come to Avignon, or come to Avignon from Arles. Theater Festival in Vignon.
The drama festival and photography festival were held almost at the same time, but it was also Chen Xing’s first time here.
On the highway in France, a Ford Mustang passed quickly.
This is Abbott's car.
It seems that only Paris in this country has traffic jams. Outside of Paris, the roads in the city are very smooth.
It is very friendly to novices, and Chen Xing wants to try his skills.
In the car, Hedwig crossed her arms and lowered her head, not knowing what she was thinking. Chen Xing looked outside from her window, pointed at the land outside the car window and said, "If we had come two months earlier, there would have been a lavender field here. "
Hedwig glanced outside.
"It's so big here."
"Of course it's big. Southern France is also known as the land of lavender. If they dare to call themselves this, they are definitely not far behind. If we have time next year, we can come earlier. I also want to see what the sea of flowers looks like. You come and be a model for me.”
Hedwig is very beautiful, but her usual temperament cannot support such beauty.
But posing depends on the skill of the photographer. Chen Xing considers himself a good portrait photographer.
"good!"
Hedwig readily agreed without any hesitation... It would be so romantic to see flowers with Chen Xing, no fool would do it!
But I don’t know if Chen Xing really thought that way or just said it casually, because Chen Xing immediately went to ask the person driving the car about the Avignon Theater Festival. Hedwig didn't have Chen Xing's ability to see through people's hearts, so she could only remember this incident.
"Is the drama festival also an annual event? Have you been there?" Chen Xing asked.
"Of course I've been there. There are just as many tourists as Arles now."
The young man driving the car is also from the exhibition department of the gallery. Chen Xing has been in contact with them more in the past two days, and no one wants to talk about work matters now. On the contrary, they talked about the Avignon Theater Festival from the time they drove until they got off the car.
The Avignon Theater Festival has a longer history than the Arles Photography Festival, which was only started in 1970, so it has only been forty years. But the theater festival has been held for 70 years.
The entire theater festival is divided into two parts: in and off.
Among them, IN, as the official leading unit, brings together the best works in the theater industry every year. In addition to theater groups, there are also some music, dance and other artistic display platforms. In the past, even movies participated.
Off is "Officiel", which means that when the theater festival is held, due to limited space, some theater troupes and artists will perform in other venues in the city, and these performances are called "off".
Doesn’t Chen Xing have several Yue opera works in this photo exhibition? The introduction includes an introduction to the Yue opera performance held in Cannes this month. This is off.
We arrived without a few words of conversation.
The guy who was driving stopped the car on the side of the road, turned around and said to Chen Xing: "Look, I said we'll be there in half an hour. Chen, Hedwig, you go play, just give me a call when you leave." ”
His car was parked in the old town of Avignon, and the sunshine in southern France was bright and bright in the midsummer. The station is opposite the city gate, and through the city gate is the Avenue de la République, the main street of the old city. This street is as straight as a modern commercial street. Walking straight ahead is the most famous attraction in Avignon, the Papal Palace.
During the drama festival, people come and go on this street, and leaflets for various dramas are hung on the walls of the houses.
Instead of sticking them up directly, many flyers are tied up with a rope. Each of these flyers has its own color, but the size is the same. It doesn't look too messy and is very suitable for taking pictures.
The sound of music is everywhere.
Those street performers were sitting in the middle of the street, with some piano cases placed around them to collect money. The speakers might have been turned up to the maximum, but you could clearly hear what they were singing from a long distance away.
Fortunately, the quality of the speakers is also very good, and the sound coming out is not as cheap as advertised by shopping malls. Otherwise, regardless of whether there is a profession like urban management here, tourists passing by would probably be unable to help but kick over his piano case containing money. .
With so many people, Hedwig Club was afraid of committing an offence, so they pressed closely against Chen Xing. But I was also observing the surrounding buildings.
Those who study art must go out and walk more often.
Hedwig rarely travels, and the things she draws are either scenes in her dreams or what she saw on the computer.
The architecture in Arles and Avignon is very distinctive, completely different from Paris, and of course it is even more different from the architecture in the United States. In her opinion, American architecture is not beautiful at all. There are high-rise buildings everywhere, Chen Xing said The Iron Jungle is very vivid.
"Their windows are all so small, and some of them are painted on. They are really beautiful. Is it a custom?" Hedwig said in Chen Xing's ear.
It made his ears itch.
He also took a look and said: "The buildings here are all like this, not customs. If you want to understand, you have to start with ancient Rome..."
Chen Xing had written books and checked information, so he happened to know the question Hedwig asked.
"There was a tax in ancient Rome called the window tax. They stipulated that all homeowners with windows that opened outwards had to pay this tax. This weird rule gradually spread to France, and people naturally reduced the number of windows when building houses. Some families don’t even repair their windows, but they paint them for aesthetic reasons.”
Hedwig hummed.
"Is there really such a rule?"
"It must be true. The French government also stipulates that the wider the windows, the higher the taxes. So even if they open the windows, they will make them narrow and long. This is how the current French windows come about. It is not for beauty, but To avoid taxes."
Chen Xing lost himself in Hedwig's adoring eyes.
Men usually do homework just to show off in front of beautiful women.
The old city is not large, and is just enough to be covered by the intact five-kilometer city wall. A short walk along this street will lead to the Gothic palace they saw before.
The name of this place is the Papal Palace. It is indeed the place where the previous popes lived.
People who know some Western religious history may have heard the name Prisoner of Avignon. Chen Xing does not know the specific details. He only knows that a war broke out between the French royal family and the Holy See, forcing the seven popes to be in prison after that. Live here.
Then Avignon, a small town, became more and more important.
It has become a famous tourist city now.
However, there is nothing interesting inside. Chen Xing thinks that the castles in the Loire Valley are more beautiful than this one, and some of those castles are inhabited by European nobles. The sanitary conditions and aesthetics inside are better than the Papal Palace.
Tickets for adults 13 are... not expensive.
France’s consumption is quite high, but the ticket revenue for tourist attractions is always cheap. If you are a student, you can also visit the Papal Palace for free.
Chen Xing was used to it and found it uninteresting, but Hedwig was very happy.
“I really want to draw here!”
"it's here?"
"No, it's downstairs, on the street where we just came."
She does not paint classical paintings. Hedwig's current painting method is biased toward modern oil paintings, and she does not usually use it to simulate such ancient palaces. But he is good-looking. Just like Chen Xing likes to take pictures with a camera whenever he goes to a place, a painter likes to record it with a brush.
The biggest difference between artists and ordinary people is that they can release their inner emotions in their own way. Therefore, singers, dancers, sculptors, photographers, and painters can all be collectively called artists.
"Then let's paint...but not today, it's too hot."
Arles is the famous city of sunshine in France. It’s only a few dozen kilometers away. Of course, it’s still hot.
"No more painting, I want to see you take pictures."
"Okay, take out your camera and I'll teach you how to take pictures."
Chen Xing can also enjoy his addiction to Fujifilm simulation.
Although compared to ordinary major manufacturers like Nikon, Fujifilm and Canon, Fujifilm is a bit niche. But niches also have niche advantages. Fujifilm can stand out from a bunch of cameras with the feature of film simulation and become the standard for literary and artistic youths. That is their ability.
Chen Xing now likes to use Hedwig's camera to sweep the streets.
Even blind shooting has a humanistic and artistic feel.
Today, Chen Xing had the idea of accompanying Hedwig on a trip. He definitely couldn't just run around with his camera. He put his camera into his backpack and shared the same camera with Hedwig.
Two people are naturally very close to each other when viewing a small monitor.
Hedwig studied art, and Chen Xing didn't need to explain the composition. She could take good compositions as soon as she bought the camera. What Chen Xing is teaching him now is how to capture the shot.
Tourist attractions like Avignon have the best streets.
The streets are full of people taking pictures with cameras, and some girls who are handsomely dressed or very beautiful have been taken countless photos, and any random action they make in front of the camera is very photogenic.
But even so, when Hedwig saw the person in the camera facing over, she was so nervous that she couldn't control her hands, and the resulting picture was ruined.
This situation occurred several times in an hour, and the photos that were originally captured well became motion blur.
Coupled with the theatrical flyers of different colors on the house, it creates a highly saturated and blurry feeling.
Chen Xing joked: "Adjust the color a little, and this is Wong Kar-Wai's color."
"ah?"
"It's a director from China. His photography language is very similar to yours."
"I am a little scared."
Hedwig sighed and said weakly.
She hasn't reached the point of depression yet, but she definitely has social fears. When Chen Xing first moved here and played games with Brother Asan, he said that he hadn't heard a complete sentence from Hedwig in several months.
Chen Xing also gradually changed from her uh-oh to her current communication method.
Thinking of this, Chen Xing's tone softened and he said, "Don't worry, everyone is fine."
There's something exciting going on all the time in the streets of Avignon.
You can see teddy bears in doll clothes handing out flyers on a hot day at the corner, you can also see an old street performer in his 70s playing guitar and performing, and even a woman holding a cup of coffee and talking on the phone with a beaming face also has a story to tell. sex.
As long as you dare to hold a camera, the streets are full of things that can be photographed.
Chen Xing wrapped Hedwig's right hand with his right hand, helping her steady the camera, and said to the hippie old man singing: "Just shoot like this, don't be afraid."
"good."
Hedwig's hands were cold.
However, the tone was unexpectedly pleasant. Chen Xing looked back and found that Hedwig's face was a little red. Thinking of the two people's current actions, Chen Xing smiled... Of course he knew what Hedwig thought about him.
But now he doesn't know what he thinks.
After all, the two of them were so far apart, and he wouldn't live in France for a long time.
It’s okay to fall in love once.
But what to do next?
Chen Xing let out a breath, focused on the picture in the viewfinder, and took a picture when he looked over.
Then he gave the elderly street performer a friendly smile and said to Hedwig:
"It's that simple."
"Hey, boy!" the old man suddenly stopped singing and shouted. Hedwig was so frightened that he trembled, and Chen Xing also looked back curiously.
"Can you give me a photo?"
"Of course, no problem."
Chen Xing stepped forward and changed his contact information and asked, "A lot of people must have taken photos of you. Uncle, you are really handsome singing here."
"Yes, but I like you." He said,
If he had taken a camera just now, he would have taken an intimate photo of the two young people. Chen Xing's handsome appearance reminded him of when he was young.
"Haha, thank you."
When Chen Xing saw him, he actually understood a question that he had been thinking about for a long time.
What should a street performer do if he is too old and can no longer sing?
Now I find that there is something that I can't sing. The street performers are old, that is, the old street performers can still sing. The money in the piano case was more than that of the young singer before.
