Dr Hans GUGGENHEIM
hansguggen@aol.com
Founder
Projectguggenheim, Inc, USA

Dr Hans Guggenheim is an Anthropologist who taught at MIT and Harvard and is the founder of www.projectguggenheim.org,  which builds art academies and art programs in different countries such as Mali,Guatemala, China.

In his own work as an artist he is interested in developing his style of single line drawings.

Collecting teaches humility, that ownership is temporary, that our collections survive us

The artist’s creativity in shaping the identity of many of our cultures is well recognized, but the creativity and the heuristic cross-cultural function of   collectors and the role of their collections over time perhaps less so. One of the joys of collecting lies in its transformative character of establishing new contextual relationships and a new order between objects and so to create new meaning. That is why I exhibited my collection of Goya’s Disasters of War at the Nanjing Museum together with paintings by Chinese children.

Whereas collecting art gives pleasure in the present, it is future oriented and carries risks. As the Mei/Moses indices show the value of investments in modern art had a 20% growth rate in 2006 , higher than the S&P. The market for Chinese artists such as Zhang Xiaogang, Yue Minjun, Wang Guangyi, is especially vigorous but Art-tactic foresees the search for additional artists. (140) A critical question for many collectors: how to transform the value of a work of art in financial terms: a Klimt portrait valued at $ 35 million three years ago into one purchased by R. Lauder for $135 million in October 2006?   

We owe a debt to Emperor Hui-tsung and Qianlong, the Medici, the Rockefellers and the Guggenheims for encouraging and collecting  great art.Today private and institutional mega collectors such as Charles Saatchi seek to direct creativity with democratic initiatives such as worldwide art competitions on the Internet or at international art fairs. We need match young artists worldwide with a new generation of art savvy collectors. One innovative training program for collectors is sponsored by Sotheby, but I propose here to you to call for an internationally recognized, future oriented MCC degree program at universities: a Master’s Degree in Creative Collecting.

Hans Guggenheim 博士

Hans Guggenheim 博士是美國Projectguggenheim的創辦人，他是一位人類學家，曾任教哈佛大學及麻省理工大學，他的Projectguggenheim為不同國家如中國、危地馬拉等建立藝術學校及藝術項目。

「藝術收藏啟發人性，擁有乃一時珍品卻長存」

藝術收藏的一個樂趣是在收藏品中找尋新的意思。今天的超級收藏家嘗試以民主手段引導創意，如網上藝術比賽及國際藝術展。我們需要培養新一代精明的藝術收藏家以配年青合藝術家的發展。