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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