Art & Finance Conference 2016

Art & Finance Conference 2016 has just been inaugurated in Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam.

Conferences represent the visible part of a unique and fascinating project of Luxembourg Financial Ministry, Deloitte Luxembourg and major Dutch editions and art institutions. Luxembourg is the center of art market in Europe and established a coherent infrastructure, which seems to me will determine the future in our sector. Conferences are held annually starting from 2000.

A few years ago, in Provadia, traffic police pulled over a rattletrap I happened to be in. They checked the documents and asked the driver about his occupation.

-       I am a painter, he admitted.

-       I am writing down “unemployed”, the policeman said. 

So it goes.

To complete the picture, I would add that the unemployed was my student, who two years earlier had defeated young designers and alumni of world top 50 universities and academies, at Design Expo in Berlin, at their premises. The New York Times highlighted in their article about the “German Festival” my student’s project and the project of a gang of Berlin architects.