Jasper
who?
A
book release by Kenny Schachter
Me&Ro
239 Elizabeth, NYC
November 15th – December
20th, 2003
Opening Reception: Saturday November 15th, 6 - 8pm
Kenny Schachter/Rove
t. 212 807-6669 f. 645-0743
www.RoveTV.net schachter@mindspring.com
CHECKLIST
C Prints mounted to aluminum, 16 x 20, ed. 3, $900
mounted, $800 unmounted
1. Jasper Who
2. I’ve been to a couple of Guggenheim museums
in Europe
3. I don’t know if the public cares anymore
4. The broken plates He’s the restaurant guy
5. I like the drip painting dude
6. A fuzzy picture of sunflowers he wasn’t all
that
7. Within myself… Art
8. The biennials. . ..so much bullshit going on
9. Beauty is overrated
10. Every one is everyone is an artist
11. Do you think art is interesting these days? No
because, I’m not interested in it.
12. Schnabel…that doesn’t ring a bell
13. Computers are good for tracking locust infestations
in the third world.
14. If it wasn’t for artists…we would
be in a cage
15. You needn’t have inspiration to be an artist
16. I don’t like the Museum of Modern Art, I’m,
glad it moved out
17. The real world is right here and the art world
is over there
18. My inability to appreciate art.
19. His name was Warholic but he changed it
20. It’s images based on images based on images
21. You buy a name weather you understand a work or
not
22. Warhol? He’s done wonders for advertising
23. Galleries are boring shitholes they all look the
same
24. If you have a Picasso why shouldn’t I have
one too?
25. Jackson Pollock? Yo that’s ridiculous
26. Museums, galleries. . .they are overpriced
27. Breaking the rules is practically a college course
28. Artists are ego maniacs
29. I’ve been down the whole starving artist
thing
30. I’m with the Monet you know I’m with
the Monet I’m not good with the 2002 art
31. I am too poor to be a collector and too untalented
to be an artist
32. Would you buy art? Hell no
33. Cecily Brown. . .I think I have one of her original
works I think
34. Art is tame
35. Abstract expressionism: It’s made by amateurs
36. Contemporary Art like sports I think is overrated
37. I could spread myself with peanut butter and play
around in Washington Square Park and call it Art
38. If I was a great painter I’d paint
39. New art is like you know Coors Light
40. That’s not anger that’s a blotch of
spilled beer around it
41. I get up and follow a routine that’s my
art
42. I don’t talk about art
43. Picasso: his history’s kind of sordid
44. If you have to think too much it becomes a project
45. But now he’s an American master just because
he’s alive
46. Damien Hirst what he does is really interesting
for about three minutes
47. Now you have non-musicians just like you have
non-artists
48. Matthew Barney? I know Barney’s the store
49. They live in a postmodern dreamy dreamy land
50. A million dollars for that?
