A few years ago, there was a saying naturally formed by the people: if you don't go to Beijing, you don't know that you are an official; I don't know if I don't know my car when I don't go to Guangzhou; If you don't go to Shenzhen, you don't know that you have little money; I don't know if I don't know I'm cowardly when I don't go There are a few more sentences in the future, so I won't go into them here.
Why did you choose an old paragraph that was popular a few years ago, just because of a feeling after participating in the Guardian Art Exhibition, and I don't agree with one of the sentences. The phrase "I don't know if I don't have less money when I don't go to Shenzhen" is small, and I participated in the preview of Guardian Auction House to really appreciate the true meaning of teaching "I have less money". A work of art with a price of several million is like selling cabbage in a vegetable market.
To participate in the preview of Guardian Auction House, there is no preferential ticket, no senior ticket, all 60 yuan. Its bullishness and extravagance can be seen.
In fact, what touched me the most was that while I was concentrating on admiring and photographing the exhibits, I suddenly heard a quarrel, which was extremely unexpected on such an elegant occasion.
If you look closely, a rich man in his 70s is arguing with the exhibitors. The reason is that in a jade booth with a minimum of 2 million yuan, one is determined to buy it, and the other is resolutely not to sell it. The person who bought said: You make an offer, I don't make a counteroffer, and now there are things that can't be bought with money; The other said that this is the treasure of our town store, and it will not be sold for any amount of money.
Listening to this quarrel, it instantly subverted my three views. It turns out that rich people are so arrogant: if you dare to make a price, I dare to buy, if you don't make a price, I will force you to buy. I took a closer look at the people around me, and everyone had a lot of aura, and the more sky-high the artwork, the more crowded the booth became.
There are very few people like me who are purely for viewing and taking pictures. I used a cheap camera to take pictures of millions or tens of millions of works of art, and I felt inferiority, a sense of guilt for tarnishing the artwork, and the more I took pictures, the more I felt nothing, and the more I wanted to leave this rich man's club as soon as possible.
The photos below are artworks from the Guardian exhibition.
August 2, 2024
Grass in Begu Zhai