Untitled (The Scream)
Untitled (The Scream)
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Artist
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Production Date
1991-1993
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Medium
black and white photographs, and wood
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Size
320 x 5200 x 375 mm
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Credit
Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 1993
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Accession Number
C1994/1/390.1-21
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Accession Date
Jun 1993
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Department
New Zealand Art
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Classification
Installation
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Collection
Chartwell
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Subjects
chairs, abstraction, ovals
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Description
The potty humour in this work is real – it’s one artist’s joke towards another who has reached great heights. Julian Dashper’s immersion in art making was such that he saw art referenced everywhere. While scouring a well-known junk shop in Grey Lynn, Auckland, he came across this handmade toilet trainer, in which you can see the face of Edvard Munch’s famous painting 'The Scream', 1893. Attuned to the legacy of modern art history, Dashper combines this reference with a row
of photographs of minimalist numeral paintings that spell out a scream or a caricature of a ghostly ‘oooooooooo’. The work makes a wry comment on art’s history – from the sublime to the ridiculous through another man’s eyes.
![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)
