Lot 25: Julian Dashper Untitled 1996 vinyl on drumskin

Julian Dashper Untitled 1996 vinyl on drumskin edition of three 525mm diameter In the late 1950s, colour-field exponent Kenneth Noland discovered his ultimate vehicle for the dissemination of his visual ideas. The circle-within-a-circle motif has been widely appropriated since. Jasper Johns took hold of it in the 1960s in a work entitled Target which applied the previously high-art model into a low-art context. Now it's Dashper's turn. He loves to play with the icons of New Zealand art, to offer works both in jest and tribute to the masters hailed before him. With this Untitled candy-coloured drumskin, and seen in other work of his utilising the long-play record, he aligns the loaded symbol with the tools of music - loud and proud are the banging of drums in particular. Painting directly onto a drumskin, Dashper physically introduces the readymade into his composition, defying the appropriation of its visual appearance alone in favour of literally using the real thing. This makes him more pop than pop - this makes him bang! Julian Dashper is represented by Sue Crockford, Auckland and Hamish McKay, Wellington. IK