Untitled (2005-06)
Untitled (2005-06)
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Artist
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Production Date
2005-2006
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Medium
acrylic on stretched canvases
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Size
267 x 305 x 190 mm
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Credit
Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 2007
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Accession Number
C2007/1/2/1
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Accession Date
09 Feb 2007
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Department
New Zealand Art
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Classification
Painting
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Collection
Chartwell
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Chartwell Notes
The back of Untitled (2005-06) by Julian Dashper is the surface of the prepared canvas that is usually used to paint on. What we can't see clearly from this view, is that the artist has made a pyramid of triangular canvases of decreasing sizes. By examining the back closely, it is possible to see how the first and second canvases are held together, as a block of wood has been inserted behind the canvas so that the screws hold. The ready-made entry-level canvases used by Dashper make up a form which offers a loose reference to a monument, perhaps a tongue in cheek nod to the monumentality of modernism and its influence.
![A Philip Guston [1]](https://api.chartwell.org.nz/records/images/large/767/aa8074866bccde33c52e5e89aeb3b983a66f508b.jpg)
![A Philip Guston [2]](https://api.chartwell.org.nz/records/images/large/768/7b715a5714d9dbe24e6faeb170bad9f245fb5885.jpg)
![A Philip Guston [3]](https://api.chartwell.org.nz/records/images/large/769/c291661cc722d58124805cce7a02341b80ca54df.jpg)
![A Philip Guston [4]](https://api.chartwell.org.nz/records/images/large/770/560e1a576ea2d102df92335aa193b7f0684c6b09.jpg)
