.Yusaku Maezawa, that seemed on ARTnews Top 200 Collectors checklist in 2015, uploaded a collection of talk about the social networks network X on Monday, pertaining to the closure of the Kawamura Memorial DIC Gallery of Fine art, showing his desire as a craft fan to avoid the discharge of function in the gallery's assortment overseas.
Recently, ARTnews' George Nelson stated that chemical firm DIC Enterprise was actually reassessing the future of Kawamura amidst stress from activist real estate investors. The Kawamura's collection includes 754 arts pieces, 384 of which are actually had through DIC Corp. It consists of seven of Proof Rothko's "Seagram Murals" as well as operates through Cy Twombly, Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, Claude Monet, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, and Robert Ryman, to name a few significant artists.
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In 2018, Maezawa got Hasegawa Tohaku's Urozu Byobu (Crows and Herons) from the gallery's assortment. In response to a fan that uploaded on X that he want to find the job sooner or later, Maezawa replied, "The Hasegawa Tohaku Crows and also Herons screen has been undertaking cleaning and also partial restoration work for concerning 3 years, yet it was actually properly come back to me recently. This work is actually an important social property assigned due to the nation, so I wish to make it feasible for every person to observe it in some way, and also I will definitely allow you referred to as very soon as the particulars are decided." He carried on, "Nevertheless, I am sad that the DIC Kawamura Gallery of Craft is actually temporarily finalized. If there is everything I may do, I would love to cooperate as a fine art fan.".
The DIC Museum is slated to be temporarily closed in January 2025.
On top of that, observing this post, he certainly not only shown remorse that Barnett Newman's Anna's Light (1968 ), which was additionally in the gallery's assortment, had actually been offered and sent overseas, calling it "extremely unlucky." He also appealed, "Regarding the closing of the Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Craft, if the collection is actually to be marketed, I hope that they will certainly to begin with move toward Japanese purchasers to ensure the many masterworks do certainly not leave behind Asia. I will certainly be actually standing by.".
In his most recent article, Maezawa also blogged about his sense of accountability as a collector, mentioning, "Oriental people need to guard Asia's standard things, whether it is actually the property, attributes, art, or standard lifestyle, as much as feasible. If our company offer them off item by item for temporary profit, Japan will no more be Asia. I need to gain enough to become capable to buy and also hand down the things that ought to be given to potential ages.".
Incidentally, Maezawa is actually currently seeking 5 personal assistants with X to handle cleansing of his estate and manor, as well as various other individual support tasks. The tasks include "laundry, cleansing, preparing food, providing meals at celebrations, red wine management, presence, documentation monitoring, as well as guest bookings," in addition to "caring for canines and pussy-cats," but there is actually no reference of responsibilities related to his art compilation.