Van Gogh Reborn! - Chapter 61
“Haaaah”
Bang Tae, who left work, sighed for a long time.
He decided to be Ko Hun’s manager as his heart led him, but to do so, he had to give up his stable job as a senior curator at the WH Art Museum.
There were too many things he had built up at work to take on new challenges, and he also had children to take care of.
His wife approached him, who had been agonizing over the cup of wine in front of him.
“Why are you alone Darling?”
Hanna took out her cup and sat across from him.
Bang Tae filled her cup without saying a word.
Hanna, who was staring at the conflicted Bang Tae, sipped the wine and asked.
“Do you want to buy a Playbox? I heard that a new one is coming .”
“Ah. Hahahaha”
Bang Tae laughed in vain at his wife’s question.
Bang Tae recalled the winter of 2020, when he, who was newly married, caught while acting strange because he wanted to buy the Playbox 5.
At that time, his wife paid for the game console without asking him anything, and asked him to share all his worries in the future.
“…I had something I wanted to do, but I was wondering if it was really all right for me to do that,”
Hanna took another sip of the wine and listened to her husband.
“Hun…… He’s really talented. Not only is he talented, he likes painting a lot.”
Hanna poured alcohol into her husband’s empty cup.
“He drew nearly 50 paintings while I was preparing for the exhibition. I can bet everything and say that, even adult Artists can’t do that. He really is a wonder kid.”
“You have already told that.”
“If I could help him out,……..…”
Bang Tae swallowed his words once.
He organized his thoughts and confessed his honest feelings.
“I want to be of help to him.”
“Then do it.”
Bang Tae raised his head to the casual response of his wife.
Bang Tae smiled bitterly and said.
“My decision might put you and the kids at risk.”
“Hmm.”
Hanna drank all the alcohol and put the glass down.
“ Darling, Why are you trying to come up with all kinds of ridiculous excuses. The answer is same like the time with playbox. Do you want to or you don’ want to.?”
Bang closed his eyes.
His wife was right about that.
Bang Tae knows that Ko Hun doesn’t need his help.
Ko Hun was a child who would shine irrespective of who was his manager.
The real reason for him to wanting to become Ko Hun’s manager was, he want to monopolize Ko Hun’s work.
It’s his greed as a Curator, wanting to deal and unfold the world created by Ko Hun to the audience.
He wanted to brag to the world, the greatness of the Artist who had lit the fire in his long lost passion.
With the experience and knowledge he had gained so far, he wanted to be the wings for Ko Hun and make him fly around the world.
After a long pause, Bang Tae opened his mouth.
“ I want to.”
“Then shouldn’t you try before you miss it?”
“That’s right.”
Bang Tae filled his and his wife’s cups.
“Thank you Hanna.”
“Well. I won’t let you starve even if you’re kicked out by Ko Hun, so try your best.”
The husband laughed at his wife’s reliable support.
The glass clashed with a clear sound.
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The doorbell rang at early morning.
“Hmmm.”
I can’t sleep since it was noisy.
When I pressed the intercom with grandpa’s golf club, I found out that it was Uncle Bang, who was snooping around.
“Who was it?”
Grandpa came out of the living room stretching and asked.
“ It’s Uncle Bang.”
“At this hour?”
At the same time as my grandpa, I looked at the wall clock.
It was only six in the morning.
I opened the door to see if it was anything urgent, and soon opened the front door.
“What’s the matter Uncle Bang?”
“Oh, were you sleeping. I’m sorry.”
Uncle Bang looked at grandpa and lowered his head.
“I’m sorry for disturbing in the early morning. I came because I had a favor to ask Mr. Ko Sooyeol and Hun.”
Looking at Uncle Bang’s face, it seems to be something important.
Grandpa also looked at Uncle Bang and beckoned him to come inside.
When Uncle Bang sat down, grandpa gave him tea and milk to me.
Drinking warm milk makes me sleepy again.
“Tell Mr.Bang. What’s the matter?”
Uncle Bang breathed out.
He faced me and grandpa with a straight, unshakable gaze and said.
“I want to be Hun’s manager.”
It’s about the thing I said yesterday.
It seems like Uncle Bang came to ask for permission from grandpa after organizing his thoughts.
Grandfather calmly put down the tea cup.
“I wouldn’t recommend you to work as an exclusive artist at the Art Museum. Yes. Of course, I thought about that method, but Hun is too precious to put in such an environment.”
“It’s a waste,”
Uncle Bang nodded heavily to grandpa’s words.
“As you know, Hun is already a popular Artist. He’ll put out better works in the future.”
“Hmm.?”
Grandfather nodded with the cup in his hands.
“I’d like to be with him. I want to organize a heart-warming exhibition with the best painter I have encountered of my life. I want to handle Hun’s painting. “
A competent curator like Uncle Bang wants to handle my painting.
What a heartbreaking thing to say.
I want to welcome him with my hands up right away, but grandpa was just drinking his tea calmly, without saying anything.
Uncle Bang was just waiting for my grandpa’s answer.
After a few minutes, grandpa finally put down his cup and opened his mouth.
“It’s much easier to understand if you’re being honest.”
“yes.?”
“Actually, I’ve had a lot of suggestions before and met with some people here and there.”
Uncle Bang blinked.
“All they said were asking me to trust them with Hun to make him the best, or to brag about what they are good at.”
“Oh.”
“Curator Bang’s words were easier to understand than those people.”
Grandpa grinned.
“I mean, the best curator of our country is greedy. Hahahah.”
Uncle Bang affirmed with a brighter face.
“Yes, I am. I want to make a place that suits Hun’s painting.”
“Hahaha. Okay. Let’s continue the talk slowly over breakfast.”
As soon as I was about to jump up with joy, the doorbell rang again.
We have a lot of guests this morning.
I held up grandpa’s golf club once again to press the intercom, but this time grandpa moved first.
“Who is it?”
– It’s a delivery Sir.
“Delivery? We didn’t order anything.”
Maybe an acquaintances has send me a gift.
Everyday someone sends me something, so it was not a surprise.
The delivery is very big, so can you please open up the door for?
Grandfather gathered his eyebrows and tilted his head.
I wonder how big of a gift was it.
“What’s this?”
I followed grandpa to the garden with my shoes.
A forklift came down from a huge truck.
Me and Uncle Bang were surprised and were just staring blankly, and the people who brought the goods began to get it off the truck.
There are more than one.
They rush out and move busily.
“What is this? Who sent it?”
“Oh… It’s from Henry Malthow?”
A person living in a foreign country seems to have send the gift.
I don’t know anyone with the name Henry Malthow.
So it must be an acquaintance of grandpa.
“Hun, that one,”
Bang Tae opened his mouth with a surprising voice.
As I shifted my gaze in the direction Uncle Bang pointed, a huge statue came into view.
It was a golden statue of Henry Marceau.
“It’s [Marceau’s jewel].”
“Why does that madman send this here? Hey, wait a minute. Don’t unload it. Take it back.”
“ Sorry sir. You have to pick it up first and send it back later. Hey, watch out there. It’s expensive.”
I never imagined he would send me the sculpture like this, which I refused.
“…?”
The people who put down [Marceau’s jewel] are about to put another down.
“What’s that?”
“That looks like a statue, too.”
“No, wait I told you not to put that thing here.”
“Oh, no Sorry sir, how can we do that when we’re paid to do it? Once you have received it, return it to the sender.”
“Leader.. we have put down all three!”
“Okay! Please sign here, Sir.”
I rolled up the cloth to see what else that rich bully had sent me, while grandpa was still fighting with the delivery company employee.
It’s a silver statue.
Suddenly, Henry’s words flashed across my mind.
“Every work has its place. If there’s a place where I want to hang my work, I’ll do anything for it.”
No way.
As I rolled up the cloth covering the third statue, a rainbow colored [Marceau’s jewel] came into view.
