Collector Talk: How This Japanese Collector Shares Contemporaneity
An entrepreneur and investor, Japanese art collector Kankuro Ueshima has built up a collection of over 500 contemporary artworks. Kankuro Ueshima Collection is mainly focused on artists with a strong sense of “contemporaneity”, expressing the times that we are all living in. He aims at establishing a collection that stays true to its “contemporaneity” and that, instead of keeping artworks in storage, keeps them alive and dynamic as they interact with society. Therefore, starting from this year, over 500 works from the collection will be open to public through both exhibitions at unique spaces and social media platforms.
Kankuro Ueshima shared with LARRY’S LIST his experience of falling in love with an abstract painting by Gerhard Richter; his latest art purchase in Miami; why meeting the artists behind the artworks is very important for him; who his art collecting mentor is; and last but not least, three emerging Japanese artists to watch out for.?