Sculptures: Art as a Metaphor

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The year 2011-2012 is the year of Nyenrode’s 65th anniversary. A joyful event which is commemorated in many ways. For this occassion several-meter-high bronze sculptures by the renowned sculptor Pieter Kortekaas have been installed on the Nyenrode estate. He has loaned these sculptures to Nyenrode for the next five years. 
  
Kortekaas's works of art encapsulate human and spiritual strength and energy. The bronze sculptures are a metaphor for the new direction in leadership and entrepreneurship . They are intended to serve as a source of inspiration for the students, employees and alumni of the university. 
 
The sculptures are named:
 
• The Conversation
• The Temple
• Tulip Vases
• King's Throne
• Strength
 
They will be unveiled over the course of the anniversary year.
 
All-Global Movement
The unveiling of the sculptures also constitutes the first stage of a major international project entitled “All-Global Movement”, through which Nyenrode, designer and initiator Pieter Kortekaas and co-initiator Erik Huis wish to reach beyond the borders of the Netherlands and spread the universal concept of conscious Leadership, Entrepreneurship and Stewardship across the globe.
 

  
Pieter Kortekaas about ‘The Conversation’
‘How do you interact with others and yourself? These sculptures are an invitation to communicate, an incentive to express yourself. First of all, I attempted to devise the shape: what is the representation of inner strength? Every person has a masculine, a feminine and a neutral component and, together, these elements form a unit. Communicating with one another is the only way to achieve something.’