Bur@rt Diary
Regarding Bur@rt Diary, I recently moved to note and had been running it on a monthly paid basis.
I moved wanting to create a place where I could write freely about what I love. I hope you’ll forgive me.
https://note.com/burart
Many people have registered on note, and I express my gratitude here.
As before, wanting to report various things to those who viewed this website this past year, this time I’ve compiled a Diary here.
Everyone, how was your 2020 art collection?
- I won every single lottery item I entered.
- Solo exhibitions of artists I love were held one after another.
- I actively participated in charity projects.
How was it for all of you?
Why not look back on this year’s collection works, organize the amount spent and the works purchased, and, toward next year, take stock of your collection and set a budget?
Speaking of budgeting, my fellow collector Mr. Kuroki is a solid collector who spends his budget in a planned way.
The other day I began a serial column on the web version of Bijutsu Techo Premium; what I especially want everyone to read is the collector-visit article on senior collector Mr. Kuroki (a paid article).
https://bijutsutecho.com/magazine/series/s32/23261
The form of collection Mr. Kuroki himself upholds is pleasingly consistent, and it really made sense to me and was instructive.
- How do I look at works at exhibitions?
- What are the points that feel pleasant while viewing?
- When I want to collect a work, where is the deciding factor?
- After collecting a work, where and how do I display (store) it?
- Which artists do I bring into (or leave out of) my collection, and how?
- By forming a collection, how do I convince myself?
…and so on—I think it through as if questioning my own inner self.
The answers may be hard to find, but there seem to be things that come into view by repeating self-questioning.
I want to avoid jumping onto lottery sales on a whim.
Having viewed WHAT MUSEUM’s collection exhibition the other day, I’m now facing the theme of “how to compose the display of my own collection.”
And, in 2021, I think it’s about time to organize my own collection and put it up for sale—that too I’ll start to consider. After several years as a collector, the direction I want to collect in has gradually settled. To use a limited budget efficiently, selling works naturally comes into view.
I want to change the negative gaze, atmosphere, and trend toward “selling works,” so I want to take the initiative and advance what I can do myself. Some collectors declare they won’t sell, but in my case, by accumulating a collection I want to confirm my own trajectory and correct it at times. *I also hear that some who say they won’t sell actually do put works up for sale.
There’s a debate over whether a collection is even required to have unity, an axis, or other consistency; in Europe and America, apparently you aren’t regarded as a collector unless you can explain that. Whether to adopt Western culture or not is one question, but in the actual collecting field, there are scenes where a degree of presentation and explanatory ability becomes necessary. *I’ve actually been asked for an explanation by a certain global mega-gallery.
I plan to continue the collector-visit articles for a while.
Please look forward to them. *If there are self-nominations or recommendations, I’d appreciate it.
As usual, I’ve also compiled my personally chosen annual BEST 10 of art exhibitions.
Even amid the pandemic, I viewed a lot.
Now, 2021 opens with a big personal challenge.
I’d be glad if I can announce it early in the new year.
Well then, have a good New Year!
