.Yusaku Maezawa, who showed up on ARTnews Top 200 Collectors list in 2013, submitted a series of talk about the social media sites system X on Monday, relating to the fastener of the Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Fine art, sharing his need as a craft lover to stop the outflow of do work in the museum's selection overseas.
Recently, ARTnews' George Nelson disclosed that chemical business DIC Corporation was reviewing the future of Kawamura in the middle of pressure coming from activist entrepreneurs. The Kawamura's selection includes 754 artworks, 384 of which are actually had by DIC Corp. It includes seven of Mark Rothko's "Seagram Murals" and operates through Cy Twombly, Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, Claude Monet, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, and also Robert Ryman, to name a few substantial artists.
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In 2018, Maezawa obtained Hasegawa Tohaku's Urozu Byobu (Crows as well as Herons) coming from the museum's collection. In feedback to a follower that posted on X that he want to view the job someday, Maezawa replied, "The Hasegawa Tohaku Crows as well as Herons monitor has been undertaking cleansing and predisposed remediation help about 3 years, yet it was actually carefully gone back to me the other day. This job is actually an important cultural residential or commercial property marked by the nation, so I would like to make it feasible for every person to see it somehow, and also I am going to allow you know as soon as the details are determined." He carried on, "Nevertheless, I sorrow that the DIC Kawamura Gallery of Craft is actually temporarily closed. If there is actually just about anything I can do, I wish to work together as an art fanatic.".
The DIC Gallery is actually slated to be briefly enclosed January 2025.
Moreover, following this post, he certainly not merely shown disappointment that Barnett Newman's Anna's Illumination (1968 ), which was actually also in the museum's collection, had actually been actually offered and also sent overseas, calling it "quite unfortunate." He also struck, "Concerning the closing of the Kawamura Memorial DIC Gallery of Art, if the assortment is actually to become marketed, I really hope that they will certainly initially approach Oriental purchasers to ensure the various masterworks carry out not leave behind Japan. I will be actually waiting.".
In his newest message, Maezawa additionally covered his feeling of duty as a collection agency, pointing out, "Oriental individuals need to protect Japan's conventional things, whether it is actually the property, nature, fine art, or even traditional culture, as long as possible. If we sell all of them off part through item for temporary profit, Japan is going to no more be actually Asia. I require to get sufficient to become able to purchase and also pass on things that ought to be given to future ages.".
In addition, Maezawa is presently seeking 5 private aides via X to handle cleansing of his mansion and suite, in addition to various other individual help tasks. The roles feature "laundry, cleansing, preparing food, offering food items at events, white wine control, attendance, paper management, and guest appointments," and also "caring for pets and also pet cats," yet there is actually no reference of obligations connected to his fine art selection.