Meet the Collectors | Takeo Obayashi

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My father was not a collector, but he loves art. So always in my house, I saw art magazines. So, naturally, I joined the art club in high school. I tried to draw or... paintings and sculptures, those things... but then I found out I'm not good at that, so I decided to watch instead of making. When I was a little kid I used to collect stamps. I think naturally I'm a collector. So I started to collect contemporary art 27 years ago. Then I used to hang them in my apartment. I still wanted to show the collection to my friends, and talk about those artworks with friends, so I decided to create a viewing space for my collection. That's why I built this house. I asked Tadao Ando, who is a long-time friend of mine, to design this house. I asked him to make this house not practical too much, but I wanted him to create an artistic house, like a museum or... the house as art. When I started this project, I received very preliminary drawings of the house from Ando. I asked him whether I could invite some artists to make some site-specific commission work. Then he said okay, so I talked to Olafur Eliasson. He sent me some ideas. That is very much like this. There are more than 6,300 shiny tiles, made in Copenhagen. He said he was inspired by... volcanic shiny rocks in Iceland. Since then, I'm adding site-specific commission works, one in two years. So, Tatsuo Miyajima, Lee Bul, and Lee Ufan. This is a work by Lee Ufan, a Korean artist who's living in Japan. He said this stone represents natural things, and the steel plate represents manmade things. He said the natural thing is always more powerful than any manmade thing. So the stone's power has really... pushed back the manmade steel plate. That's why it's curved. He said it should start rusting gradually, so I should come here and use baby oil, once a week maybe, and then gradually it's rusting. So I did it. It becomes very beautiful, like a Rothko color. Basically, I buy whatever I like. That's why I collect not only international artists but also Japanese artists, because, as a Japanese, and as a Japanese collector, I think I'm responsible to support those people. This is a Morimura. And if you drink it, you find the nose.
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Channel: Art Basel
Views: 8,881
Rating: 4.9338841 out of 5
Keywords: Art Basel, takeo obayashi, collectors, japan, tokyo, tadao ando
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Length: 5min 13sec (313 seconds)
Published: Tue Apr 30 2019
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