ArtCommodities.com aims to build an art investment market whose social impact increases its potential for economic returns. As the social relevance and impact of a work increases, so does its market value.

Today's primary art market logic is highly dysfunctional and poor-performing over the long term.

Art collectors are endangered by incentives on short-run profits and the selling of quick, aimless, and trivial art, instead of being encouraged by an independent oeuvre of lasting quality and thought-provoking art.

This false paradigm of low-intellectual and cultural value as tied to high-financial value negatively affects the infrastructures and formations that sustain the cultural industry complex.

Overvaluation and mispricing of easily digestible and entertaining art is becoming more and more prevalent, a situation that misguides the investors and harms the whole art world, which is the real source of value. The present conservative model is often unsustainable, leading to collapse, and creating losses for its investors.



A simple economic analysis into the production of values of artworks

Symbolic value can be exchanged for high economic value, however commercial value is often exchanged for the symbolic, making the market unreliable. Misleading dominant economic forces have influenced popular taste and the artistic canon, which ultimately determines a false system of values.

ArtCommodities.com is committed to building symbolic and intellectual capital for creating a new market value of art, and promoting the equation between social value, artistic significance and economic development.

Art is a concept of value constantly requiring its own reevaluation. However, the factors influencing the valuation and validation of contemporary art, artistic reputation, and credibility are too often determined by the economic conditions and status of its producers, dealers, and buyers.

ArtCommodities.com wants to invert this paradigm, and assert a new scenario where the social validation of art influences its economic value, which is then redistributed to the social bodies that fuel and create the art economy itself. Economic evaluation should be democratic, hence conditioned by discernible quality and accessible artworks.

ArtCommodities.com promotes a new age of critique, awarding prestige and cultural capital to critical art, and encouraging its appreciation by popular audiences.

Many have questioned the authority of cultural experts and how they could legitimate their own valuations to generate estimations for inflating the value of artworks.