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About Peter van der Wel

Futurist and management consultant Peter van der Wel has the Future as his business. He helps leaders and teams develop their vision and design for the future. Amsterdam Based. Peter is an economist, scientist, philosopher, artist, and innovative entrepreneur. "I still believe in the old Renaissance ideal of the universal man, not in the sense of knowing everything about everything, but as the ambition to understand universal structures."

Art as Money: a Square Circle

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Art is indispensable. Art is wealth. Art is fun. Art is identity. Art is always in motion. Art is about seining, smelling, feeling and hearing. Art is observing without judgment, Thanks to art I can experience every day as a different day and I can be different every day. Art is about collective mental programming. Art is contagious. Art makes human…human. Art is a lever for renewal. Art is culture. Art binds us and separates us. Art gives us a higher state of consciousness. Art forces us to ask questions. Art is a starting point. Art is the transfer of wonder. Art questions cultures, lifestyles, values, traditions and beliefs. Art is art is art is art. Art is overwhelming. Art is more than money can buy. Art is invaluable, priceless, unpriced, unpriceble but sometimes very expensive. Art isn’t made out of air. Commercial Art is like a square circle. Like warm ice. Like a living skeleton. Like honest advertising.

 

Is Art Money?

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Money and art are both magical phenomena. Money is only Money if we accept it as Money, and art is only Art if we accept it as Art. If we don’t accept it as money, then money basically isn’t anything more than some colorful printed paper or a heap of stones or shells. If it’s not accepted as art, then art isn’t anything more than a painted canvas or a piece of bended metal. What is it then that makes money different from any other piece of printed paper or wrought metal and what makes art different from any other crafted materials? The difference is trust. TRUST. Money is Money and art is Art because a group of believers trust other believers to accept it in turn as art or as money.


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