.Yusaku Maezawa, that appeared on ARTnews Leading 200 Collectors list in 2014, published a set of comments on the social media network X on Monday, pertaining to the fastener of the Kawamura Remembrance DIC Museum of Fine art, revealing his wish as an art lover to prevent the stream of do work in the gallery's selection overseas.
Recently, ARTnews' George Nelson stated that chemical business DIC Corporation was actually reviewing the future of Kawamura amidst tension coming from activist investors. The Kawamura's selection includes 754 arts pieces, 384 of which are actually had through DIC Corp. It consists of seven of Proof Rothko's "Seagram Murals" and operates through Cy Twombly, Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, Claude Monet, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, and Robert Ryman, among other considerable performers.
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In 2018, Maezawa got Hasegawa Tohaku's Urozu Byobu (Crows as well as Herons) from the gallery's collection. In reaction to an enthusiast who uploaded on X that he wish to see the work one day, Maezawa answered, "The Hasegawa Tohaku Crows as well as Herons display has been undergoing cleaning and predisposed remediation help regarding 3 years, yet it was properly returned to me recently. This job is actually an essential social residential or commercial property assigned due to the country, so I wish to create it possible for everyone to find it somehow, and I will certainly allow you called quickly as the information are actually chosen." He carried on, "Even so, I sorrow that the DIC Kawamura Gallery of Fine art is actually temporarily closed. If there is just about anything I can possibly do, I want to cooperate as an art fanatic.".
The DIC Gallery is actually slated to be temporarily enclosed January 2025.
Moreover, following this blog post, he not just revealed regret that Barnett Newman's Anna's Lighting (1968 ), which was additionally in the museum's collection, had actually been marketed as well as delivered overseas, calling it "quite regrettable." He also appealed, "Pertaining to the closure of the Kawamura Memorial DIC Gallery of Art, if the selection is to be marketed, I wish that they will to begin with come close to Japanese buyers to ensure the many masterworks perform certainly not leave behind Japan. I will certainly be actually standing by.".
In his most up-to-date blog post, Maezawa also covered his sense of duty as a collection agency, stating, "Japanese people require to guard Japan's typical traits, whether it is actually the land, attribute, art, or even conventional culture, as long as possible. If our team market them off item through piece for short-term earnings, Japan will definitely no longer be actually Asia. I need to make good enough to be able to buy as well as pass on the many things that must be actually given to future eras.".
Incidentally, Maezawa is actually presently looking for five personal aides with X to handle cleansing of his manor and manor, along with various other individual support tasks. The roles consist of "laundry, cleaning, cooking, serving food at gatherings, a glass of wine control, participation, documentation administration, and also visitor appointments," as well as "taking care of pets as well as pet cats," but there is no reference of roles connected to his fine art selection.