Jean-Marc Bottazzi on why good collecting is not about 'ticking boxes'

Jean-Marc Bottazzi, a Japanese bond trader based in Hong Kong, says his approach to collecting is about sustained support rather than “ticking boxes,” a philosophy shaped in part by his relationship with his younger brother, painter Guillaume Bottazzi. He has assembled a collection of around 1,000 works spanning Western Europe, the US, and East Asia, with strengths in abstraction and conceptual photography, including artists such as Robert Motherwell, Simon Hantaï, Kazuo Shiraga (Gutai), and the experimental pioneer Ei-Q. Bottazzi is a major supporter of the 96-year-old Japanese artist A-Yo, owning more than 100 works and serving as a key lender to a recent monographic exhibition at Hong Kong’s M+, where he is also a donor and international committee member. He cites recent purchases including a Lucio Fontana “Tagli” and Man Ray’s photographic edition La Priere (1930), and regrets passing on a Man Ray Minotaur photograph and an Eikoh Hosoe portrait of Yukio Mishima.

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