.Yusaku Maezawa, that seemed on ARTnews Leading 200 Collectors checklist in 2014, uploaded a set of talk about the social media network X on Monday, relating to the closure of the Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, showing his need as an art aficionado to stop the discharge of works in the museum's assortment overseas.
Last week, ARTnews' George Nelson stated that chemical provider DIC Corporation was revising the future of Kawamura amid pressure coming from activist real estate investors. The Kawamura's assortment boasts 754 artworks, 384 of which are had by DIC Corp. It features seven of Mark Rothko's "Seagram Murals" as well as works by Cy Twombly, Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, Claude Monet, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, as well as Robert Ryman, and many more notable artists.
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In 2018, Maezawa obtained Hasegawa Tohaku's Urozu Byobu (Crows and also Herons) from the museum's assortment. In feedback to a follower that published on X that he want to see the job at some point, Maezawa replied, "The Hasegawa Tohaku Crows and Herons display has been actually going through cleaning and partial renovation work for concerning three years, but it was actually safely and securely gone back to me yesterday. This job is actually a crucial cultural residential property assigned by the country, so I would love to make it feasible for everybody to find it somehow, and also I will definitely permit you referred to as soon as the information are actually made a decision." He continued, "Nevertheless, I sorrow that the DIC Kawamura Gallery of Craft is temporarily shut. If there is anything I can possibly do, I wish to cooperate as a craft lover.".
The DIC Museum is slated to become momentarily enclosed January 2025.
Furthermore, observing this article, he not merely conveyed remorse that Barnett Newman's Anna's Illumination (1968 ), which was also in the museum's selection, had been actually offered and sent overseas, naming it "really unfavorable." He additionally appealed, "Pertaining to the closure of the Kawamura Remembrance DIC Museum of Fine Art, if the selection is to be marketed, I hope that they will to begin with approach Japanese buyers so that the numerous work of arts do not leave behind Asia. I will definitely be waiting.".
In his most up-to-date post, Maezawa additionally covered his sense of task as a debt collector, stating, "Oriental individuals need to shield Japan's traditional factors, whether it's the property, nature, craft, or even typical society, as much as feasible. If our company market all of them off piece by piece for temporary revenue, Asia will definitely no longer be actually Japan. I need to have to make enough to become able to purchase and hand down the important things that need to be actually passed down to future ages.".
Furthermore, Maezawa is actually presently looking for five individual associates via X to handle cleansing of his manor and also vacation home, along with other individual assistance tasks. The roles feature "laundry washing, cleaning, cooking, offering food at gatherings, red or white wine monitoring, attendance, record monitoring, as well as attendee reservations," as well as "taking care of dogs and cats," yet there is actually no acknowledgment of duties associated with his art collection.