.Yusaku Maezawa, that showed up on ARTnews Best 200 Collectors checklist in 2013, posted a series of comments on the social media network X on Monday, concerning the closure of the Kawamura Remembrance DIC Museum of Fine art, conveying his desire as a fine art enthusiast to prevent the stream of function in the gallery's compilation overseas.
Last week, ARTnews' George Nelson disclosed that chemical company DIC Organization was reassessing the future of Kawamura amid stress coming from activist entrepreneurs. The Kawamura's collection boasts 754 artworks, 384 of which are actually had through DIC Corp. It includes 7 of Symbol Rothko's "Seagram Murals" as well as operates through Cy Twombly, Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, Claude Monet, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, as well as Robert Ryman, to name a few significant musicians.
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In 2018, Maezawa obtained Hasegawa Tohaku's Urozu Byobu (Crows as well as Herons) from the gallery's compilation. In reaction to a follower that uploaded on X that he would like to observe the job sooner or later, Maezawa answered, "The Hasegawa Tohaku Crows and Herons display screen has actually been actually undergoing cleaning and also partial repair work with about 3 years, but it was actually properly gone back to me a few days ago. This job is actually an important social residential or commercial property designated due to the nation, so I would love to create it feasible for every person to find it somehow, as well as I will certainly permit you referred to as quickly as the information are actually decided." He continued, "However, I am sad that the DIC Kawamura Museum of Craft is temporarily shut. If there is everything I can do, I would like to coordinate as a craft fan.".
The DIC Gallery is actually slated to be briefly closed in January 2025.
Furthermore, following this post, he certainly not just shown remorse that Barnett Newman's Anna's Illumination (1968 ), which was likewise in the museum's assortment, had been sold and sent out overseas, calling it "extremely unfavorable." He also struck, "Relating to the closing of the Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, if the assortment is actually to become offered, I hope that they will definitely initially move toward Eastern buyers to ensure the various masterworks perform not leave Asia. I will be hanging around.".
In his latest post, Maezawa also wrote about his feeling of task as an enthusiast, claiming, "Japanese people require to safeguard Asia's conventional factors, whether it is actually the land, attribute, craft, or even standard culture, as much as achievable. If our team offer them off part by item for temporary profit, Asia will definitely no more be Japan. I require to earn enough to become capable to purchase and pass on the important things that should be given to potential ages.".
Furthermore, Maezawa is actually currently seeking 5 individual associates via X to deal with cleaning of his mansion house and also vacation home, in addition to other personal help tasks. The duties include "washing, cleaning, cooking food, offering meals at events, red or white wine management, presence, document monitoring, and also visitor bookings," and also "caring for dogs as well as pussy-cats," however there is actually no reference of obligations associated with his craft assortment.