Contemporary art

“Contemporary art has in fact reached a point when artists are prepared to adopted [sic] anything as a medium to work with. What is important is not the execution of an art work but the idea behind it. The speculation about the nature of things is sometimes more interesting than the rendering of actual appearances.
“An artist should be able to deal with any kind of material and to transform it into something that affects the spectator physically, intellectually, or emotionally.” (Cheo Chai Hiang, “Foreword,” Singapore Modern Art 1974, np.)