.Yusaku Maezawa, that appeared on ARTnews Top 200 Collectors checklist last year, uploaded a series of talk about the social media system X on Monday, relating to the closure of the Kawamura Remembrance DIC Museum of Craft, sharing his need as a craft aficionado to avoid the outflow of works in the gallery's compilation overseas.
Last week, ARTnews' George Nelson disclosed that chemical provider DIC Firm was reassessing the future of Kawamura in the middle of stress coming from activist clients. The Kawamura's compilation includes 754 arts pieces, 384 of which are actually had by DIC Corp. It consists of 7 of Mark Rothko's "Seagram Murals" and functions by Cy Twombly, Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, Claude Monet, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, as well as Robert Ryman, among other significant artists.
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In 2018, Maezawa obtained Hasegawa Tohaku's Urozu Byobu (Crows and Herons) from the gallery's compilation. In reaction to a fan that published on X that he want to observe the job sooner or later, Maezawa answered, "The Hasegawa Tohaku Crows and also Herons display screen has been actually going through cleaning and partial reconstruction work for regarding three years, however it was actually securely gone back to me the other day. This work is actually a crucial social home designated by the country, so I would like to make it feasible for everybody to observe it somehow, and I will allow you know as soon as the details are made a decision." He carried on, "However, I sorrow that the DIC Kawamura Museum of Craft is actually momentarily shut. If there is actually anything I can possibly do, I would like to participate as a fine art lover.".
The DIC Gallery is slated to be momentarily approached January 2025.
Additionally, observing this message, he not merely conveyed disappointment that Barnett Newman's Anna's Lighting (1968 ), which was actually likewise in the gallery's collection, had been actually marketed and also delivered overseas, naming it "very regrettable." He also appealed, "Pertaining to the closure of the Kawamura Remembrance DIC Museum of Craft, if the assortment is actually to become marketed, I really hope that they will first approach Eastern shoppers to ensure that the many showpieces perform certainly not leave behind Japan. I will be hanging around.".
In his most up-to-date message, Maezawa also blogged about his feeling of responsibility as a collector, mentioning, "Eastern people need to have to secure Japan's typical things, whether it is actually the property, nature, art, or even traditional society, as long as feasible. If we offer them off item through piece for short-term income, Japan will certainly no more be actually Japan. I need to have to get good enough to become able to acquire as well as hand down things that must be actually passed down to future eras.".
In addition, Maezawa is actually currently looking for five individual assistants with X to handle cleansing of his estate as well as suite, along with various other private assistance duties. The roles include "washing, cleaning, preparing food, offering meals at parties, red or white wine monitoring, attendance, record management, and visitor appointments," along with "looking after pet dogs and also pussy-cats," but there is actually no reference of tasks connected to his art compilation.