Rafaël Rozendaal 🪑

Some thoughts on the MoMA The Museum of Modern Art acquisition 🍎 Thank you to Paola Antonelli for being the best curator I could have worked with, someone with seemingly infinite curiosity and energy. Thank you to Reinier Feijen for always coding whatever I come up with, especially when I'm not sure what I want. Thank you to Neil Hutchinson 137 & Fellowship for supporting the acquisition. Thank you to Erick / Snowfro / 🦩 / LAO / #️⃣ / 🔴 for building a space for artists & infinite encouragement & enthusiasm. Thank you to Refik Anadol for having the guts & vision no other digital artist had before. This exhibition & acquisition are very special to me. Not just because MoMA is a Big Name, it's more than that... My works have always been in response to art history, to painterly ideas. I chose to explore those ideas in a new medium. This new medium has its own characteristics and formal possibilities, but it's in dialog with the past. Art is many things. I am interested in the intensification of perception. The opposite of distraction and noise. Museums exist to separate art from chaos. Starting out on the internet, I was perhaps always a bit pretentious, but I knew this work was not just "some shit I made", it's art, it has ambitions beyond the feed. A museum collection, and especially MoMA's, could be seen as a feed, as a timeline, but one that is very long term and deliberate. Museums will change, distributions will change, technology will change, but there is something in art that always finds it way into the new. Very grateful for this to happen and very grateful to be able to continue making my work every day. thank you! RR further reading: 👉