In a post on the Te Papa blog yesterday William scooped a number of my favourite Dashperisms, including the terrific "People say my paintings are deep in the way they say that fat people are heavy". But he missed this one, which I think sums up beautifully the delight Julian took in setting up then subverting easy assumptions about painting:
Someone asked me once at a party 'What sort of artist are you?', and I said, 'I’m a super realist painter' and they said, 'Well that sounds good, what do you paint?' and I said, 'Abstract art'.-- Interview with Mark Kirby, Luxus, The Hague, 1997, reprinted in The Twist, Waikato Museum of Art and History, 1998.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh68k0N2Qs7ewjlApb0o0OOWHynvHXfsW7lw9ELx1TKWCoyPDK6bfuApHtDHfWTVgYNz0-sg6FaVSaHuawyq2a4clq8wSmxXRBXWiVGwZr4mR2stsHzJtgkTV-6KMVp5DJATjLKdc6Zfas/s400/stripes.jpg)
Julian Dashper, Untitled (1991), 1991. Printed industrial canvas over stretcher, 860 x 860 mm. Collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa.
No comments:
Post a Comment