RafaelFajardo

Contemporary art’s job is to wreck whatever came before it. And from the very beginning after the Old Masters, from then on, each generation wrecked that. That something that’s pretty and beautiful is probably the worst thing that you could say today in contemporary art about something, unless it’s so pretty it’s nauseating.

So, and people that… most people have great contempt about contemporary art and I find that hilarious because I did a piece, it said “contemporary art hates you.” And it does hate them because you can’t see it. You don’t know the magic trick; you haven’t learned the vocabulary, you haven’t learned the special way of seeing something that changes it. And that is like joining a biker gang; that is. But you do have to be able to appreciate all kinds of taste. And the contemporary art that I like best is the kind that initially angers you.