.Yusaku Maezawa, who seemed on ARTnews Leading 200 Collectors listing in 2013, submitted a collection of talk about the social media network X on Monday, concerning the fastener of the Kawamura Memorial DIC Gallery of Fine art, revealing his need as an art fan to avoid the outflow of function in the museum's selection overseas.
Last week, ARTnews' George Nelson reported that chemical provider DIC Firm was reevaluating the future of Kawamura surrounded by stress coming from activist entrepreneurs. The Kawamura's assortment flaunts 754 artworks, 384 of which are had by DIC Corp. It consists of 7 of Symbol Rothko's "Seagram Murals" and works by Cy Twombly, Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, Claude Monet, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, and Robert Ryman, and many more substantial musicians.
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In 2018, Maezawa acquired Hasegawa Tohaku's Urozu Byobu (Crows as well as Herons) coming from the museum's collection. In reaction to an enthusiast who uploaded on X that he would love to see the job someday, Maezawa answered, "The Hasegawa Tohaku Crows and also Herons display has been undertaking cleansing as well as partial reconstruction work for about 3 years, however it was actually carefully come back to me a few days ago. This job is an essential social building assigned by the country, so I want to make it achievable for everyone to view it in some way, as well as I will permit you referred to as quickly as the information are actually made a decision." He carried on, "Nevertheless, I sorrow that the DIC Kawamura Gallery of Fine art is actually temporarily shut. If there is actually everything I may do, I would love to comply as a fine art fan.".
The DIC Gallery is actually slated to become momentarily closed in January 2025.
In addition, following this message, he certainly not only revealed regret that Barnett Newman's Anna's Illumination (1968 ), which was additionally in the gallery's selection, had actually been actually sold and delivered overseas, calling it "really unlucky." He additionally appealed, "Pertaining to the closing of the Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Craft, if the selection is to be offered, I wish that they will definitely initially come close to Oriental buyers in order that the many masterworks do certainly not leave behind Asia. I will certainly be actually waiting.".
In his most current blog post, Maezawa also blogged about his sense of accountability as a collection agency, saying, "Oriental people need to secure Asia's conventional things, whether it is actually the land, nature, craft, or typical lifestyle, as long as achievable. If our company market them off item through part for temporary revenue, Japan is going to no longer be actually Asia. I need to get sufficient to become able to acquire and hand down the things that should be given to future age groups.".
Incidentally, Maezawa is currently seeking five personal assistants with X to deal with cleaning of his mansion house and also villa, and also various other private help roles. The tasks feature "washing, cleaning, cooking, serving meals at events, wine control, participation, paper monitoring, as well as guest reservations," along with "caring for pet dogs as well as pet cats," but there is no reference of responsibilities connected to his craft selection.