.Yusaku Maezawa, who appeared on ARTnews Top 200 Collectors checklist last year, uploaded a set of discuss the social networks system X on Monday, relating to the closure of the Kawamura Remembrance DIC Gallery of Art, showing his wish as an art fan to stop the discharge of operate in the museum's assortment overseas.
Recently, ARTnews' George Nelson stated that chemical business DIC Firm was actually reevaluating the future of Kawamura surrounded by stress coming from activist entrepreneurs. The Kawamura's compilation includes 754 arts pieces, 384 of which are actually possessed by DIC Corp. It consists of seven of Symbol Rothko's "Seagram Murals" as well as functions by Cy Twombly, Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, Claude Monet, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, as well as Robert Ryman, and many more significant musicians.
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In 2018, Maezawa got Hasegawa Tohaku's Urozu Byobu (Crows and Herons) coming from the museum's assortment. In reaction to a fan who posted on X that he would like to view the job at some point, Maezawa answered, "The Hasegawa Tohaku Crows and Herons screen has been going through cleaning and also predisposed restoration work for regarding 3 years, yet it was carefully returned to me the other day. This work is actually a necessary cultural property assigned due to the nation, so I would like to make it possible for everyone to see it somehow, as well as I will definitely allow you called soon as the information are actually made a decision." He continued, "However, I sorrow that the DIC Kawamura Gallery of Art is actually momentarily closed. If there is actually everything I can possibly do, I would love to cooperate as a fine art fan.".
The DIC Museum is actually slated to be temporarily approached January 2025.
Additionally, observing this message, he not simply expressed disappointment that Barnett Newman's Anna's Illumination (1968 ), which was also in the museum's compilation, had been offered and also sent overseas, calling it "incredibly unfavorable." He additionally struck, "Concerning the closure of the Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Fine Art, if the assortment is actually to become offered, I wish that they will initially move toward Japanese shoppers to ensure that the various masterworks carry out certainly not leave behind Japan. I will be actually hanging around.".
In his most current blog post, Maezawa also blogged about his feeling of accountability as a collector, pointing out, "Oriental people need to have to guard Japan's conventional factors, whether it's the land, nature, art, or even conventional culture, as much as achievable. If our company market all of them off part through item for temporary income, Japan will certainly no more be actually Asia. I need to have to gain sufficient to become able to purchase and also hand down the important things that should be given to future age groups.".
Incidentally, Maezawa is actually presently trying to find five individual assistants via X to deal with cleansing of his mansion and also suite, in addition to various other individual assistance tasks. The obligations consist of "laundry washing, cleaning, cooking, serving food items at events, wine control, attendance, paper administration, and also guest appointments," in addition to "looking after dogs as well as felines," yet there is no mention of duties associated with his art collection.