右翼の為、1千600万円で販売した、アドルフ・ヒトラー像を描いた井田幸昌。ファック・ユー。 IDA Yukimasa painted a portrait of Adolf Hitler, which sold for 120.000 US$, for the Right-Wing. FUCK YOU.

Greetings from Basel, 4th of July 2022.
Mariane Ibrahim, first time participant at Art Basel 2022, brought Japanese newcomer IDA Yukimasa 井田幸昌 (32), whose mediocre painting “SUMI”, executed three months ago, sold for hyperinflated 120.000 US$. See my attached pics.

Nothing new per se, on the contrary… old, boring European painting school.

Myself recogognized in the picture one of the Japan-Germany-Italy fascist axis 枢軸国　protagonists: Adolf Hitler. I am strongly opposing IDA’s attitude for painting the portrait of Hitler.
I am against this kind of art-selling to the Right-Wing people.

How about a topic like “make love not war”, or “NO NUKES”, similar to the practice of NARA Yoshitomo 奈良美智?

As a veteran, an expert of the Japanese art scene, I can tell you, that this kind of retail-price for a 32 years old guy in Japan is overexaggerated, bubbly, “out of control”; the Japanese local art context speaks with different codes.

Consequently, he has been already put into the genre of “art flippers”, the so-called poor speculators, who want to quickly flip the work of emerging artists. Art consultant Lisa Schiff uses the term: “wrong, non-collectors”.
With no institutional back-up, nor any critical acclaim, IDA may experience frustrating, hard times in the years to come.
More @
アート・バーゼル、成功への宿命 (アーティストたちによって裸にされたアート・バーゼル、さえも*) 2022年度
ART BASEL – Doomed To Succeed (ART BASEL Stripped Bare by Her Artists, Even*) 2022 version
https://art-culture.world/articles/art-basel-2022/

If you think, IDA is an insular case in Japan, see art worker Ellie (Chim↑Pom) and her practice 3 months ago. Ellie with extreme right wing politician and former PM, ABE Shinzo (LDP) at the entrance of Chim↑Pom’s Mori Art Museum show. (Up-date, edit: ABE Shinzo has been assassinated on 8th of July 2022, in Nara, Japan)

Link_https://www.instagram.com/p/Ccp9lVjvsp6/

Regarding art flippers, learn more via:

アートマーケットと現代アート・フリッパーについて Art Market and Art Flippers
https://art-culture.world/articles/art-market-and-art-flippers/

五木田智央の絵画が投機好きなアートとして @ ニューヨークタイムズ
GOKITA Tomoo’s Painting as Flip Art @ New York Times
https://art-culture.world/articles/gokita-tomoo-painting-as-flip-art-new-york-times/

「貧乏臭さ」の象徴：村上隆、ドラえもん、藤子・F・不二雄、ガゴシアン。アート・フリッパー：2020作を2021年4月のオークションへ
Symbol of “Shabbiness”: MURAKAMI Takashi, Doraemon, Fujiko Fujio, Gagosian. Art Flipper: Work of 2020 Selling at April 2021 Auction
https://art-culture.world/articles/takashi-murakami-doraemon-fujiko-fujio-ドラえもん/

ビハインド・ザ・シーン。例えばA.B.の場合 Behind The Scene. For Example The Case Of A.B.
https://art-culture.world/articles/behind-the-scene-ビハインド-ザ-シーン-例えばa-b-の場合/

北京・X Museumの共同設立者、黄勖夫（マイケル・ホゥアン Michael Xufu Huang）が現代アート・フリッパー（aka MOTHERFUCKER）であるという事実
Michael Xufu Huang 黄勖夫, co-founder of Beijing’s X Museum, is an Art Flipper (aka MOTHERFUCKER)
https://art-culture.world/articles/michael-xufu-huang/

“Bribed” journalism at Wall Street Journal: Gagosian pushing up Grotjahn for U.S. Art Flippers, 6 days before the exhibition
https://art-culture.world/articles/gagosian-grotjahn-for-u-s-art-flippers/

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Up-date 2024/2/12, quote:

“It” all started with the solo show of extreme right wing, conservative artist IDA Yukimasa 井田幸昌 at the Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art, last year.

The Japan Times article had been hidden, censured by 34 years old Ida, who normally posts everything about him and calls his young wife, with the extremely discriminating word, “Ofukuro” お袋.

Link_https://twitter.com/idayukimasa/status/1730869232504860841

‘Panta Rhei’: Yukimasa Ida is still searching for his own voice
Japan Times, 3 November 2023, by Lance Henderstein

quote:
Ida’s statement gives us only a confused description involving women’s position in society (the table is populated by what appear to be women), artificial intelligence and robots replacing humans (the supposed women are in fact “objects,” he explains); it’s a muddle of contemporary issues combined in the name of satire. What Ida’s “Last Supper” is satirizing isn’t at all clear, and the rigid, collage-like treatment lacks the primal energy and ecstatic beauty of Ida’s other works.
Like a talented musician who can solo with the best of them but struggles to write a classic song of his own, Ida seems to have chosen to rely on sampling great artists of the past, which may actually suit the current times of cut-and-paste meme culture but also feels like artistic immaturity.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2023/11/04/art/yukimasa-ida-panta-rhei/

With some money, the Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art, lets “everyone” do an exhibition, like Ida’s. As Jerome Sans and I are close friends since over 20 years, let me assure you, that Jerome played the “pseudo-curator” for Ida’s ‘Panta Rhei’ for some extra money (plus flight, meals and accommodations in Japan) with a troublesome smile on his face.

From:

MURAKAMI Takashi Show and Freezing Mother with Baby. Kyoto’s Problematic Image. Minor, B-Class Exhibitions @ Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art
村上隆個展と凍える母親と赤ちゃん。問題のある京都のイメージ。マイナー、Bクラスの展覧会 @ 京都市京セラ美術館
https://art-culture.world/articles/kyoto-city-kyocera-museum-of-art/

End of the up-date.

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