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IF YOU BUILD IT THEY WILL COME
Please join us on Thursday 3 July 6-9pm for the preview,
continuing in the function room of Dempseys, Castle Street until late.
g39, Wyndham Arcade, Cardiff CF10 1FH UK
Exhibition open: 9 July – 9 August 2008, Wed-Sat 11-5.30
g39, Wyndham Arcade, Cardiff CF10 1FH UK
Exhibition open: 9 July – 9 August 2008, Wed-Sat 11-5.30
Contributors include: Bedwyr Williams, Sean Edwards, Sofia Hulten, Jem Finer, Ella Gibbs, Michael Murray, Tom Dale, Jennie Savage, Marcos Chaves, Sally Cohen, Sara Fletcher, Richard Powell, Rachel Thorlby, Simon Blackmore, Meriel Herbert, Tom Dale, Antony Hall, Richard Page, Paul Granjon, Lucy Harrison, Lloyd Durling, Nooshin Farhid, Dave Ball, Lizzie Hughes, Chris Lloyd, Stefhan Caddick, Nadia Hebson, Tiago Carneiro Da Cunha, Calum Stirling, Matt Cook, Craig Woods, Charles Jeffery, Andrew Hayes-Watkins, Igor Grubic, Boredom Research, George Henry Longly, Richard Robinson & Robert Bermingham, Yoke&Zoom, Sarah McLaren, Philip Babot, Gordon Dalton, Simon Aeppli, Toni Latour, Edward Adam, Peter Finnemore, Paul Becker, Richard Owen, Gary Ward, Tim Davies & Michael Cousin.All work is on sale, with proceeds channelled into the programme at g39.
On 3 July 1998, there was a sense of anticipation in the Cardiff artscene: a new artist-run space was being launched. The inaugural exhibition preview was packed with artists, students and suits, curious about the new project; it was met with both a sense of expectation as well as the doom-laden predictions of a short lifespan. Fortunately g39 is still here, quietly but determinedly delivering a programme, providing a meeting place for artists and a focus for graduates. To celebrate g39 is marking its ten-year anniversary with a commemorative programme of events, starting with If You Build It, They Will Come – an attempt to present the works of each and every artist g39 has worked with in the past decade.
g39 has survived ten years in Cardiff while larger spaces have come and gone. It has partly been flexibility and a responsive attitude that has lent the project its longevity. Though the physical space is small – the size of a three-storey townhouse – its catchment is far larger, encompassing networks of artists, groups and galleries that the space is actively involved in. It is clear that our attention to this network, and a commitment to working with artists to present pioneering work in a clear and accessible manner, that has generated and sustained support from visitors and artists alike. This ongoing success confirms that g39 is functioning as it was envisaged and that it is crucial that we continue to play an influential role in the visual arts in Wales and the UK. By virtue of surviving this long the space may have become part of the establishment, but its history of adaptability keeps the threat of bureaucracy, and the stagnation that comes with it, at bay.
If You Build It, They Will Come demonstrates the extent to which g39 has supported artists as well as the wealth of talent that has grown from g39’s activities – a retrospective of sorts. Every artist that has worked with the space has been invited to produce a single work for exhibition and eventual publication. The show is a demonstration of the links between artists, official or unofficial, forged at g39 or made subsequently. We know these exist, whether they are swiped at as nepotism or viewed as a collective zeitgeist or artscene, but it is these relationships that maintain a flow of ideas and theory, dialogues and interconnections. For the rest of its tenth year g39 will host a series of symposia that look at the promises artist led activity seemed to offer, at different ways of working and at the role(s) this activity can assume. It is the first step in a year-long review; an open evaluation of the last decade and a period of planning for the next.
For more information about the exhibition, or for images please contact Chris Brown
t: +44 (0)29 2025 5541 e: chris@...
or visit our website www.g39.org
Notes for editors:
g39 is supported by the Arts Council of Wales & The Esmee Fairbairn Trust
G39 was established in 1998 and incorporated in 2000. Its mission statement is to increase awareness and understanding of contemporary art in Wales. This is achieved mainly through its programme of exhibitions, which takes place both in the permanent ‘white cube’ space in Cardiff city centre, and offsite temporary venues including digital display boards, billboards, shipping containers, warehouses and empty shop units. Through its curatorial policy g39 aims to profile work by contemporary artists from Wales alongside those from the rest of the UK and beyond; to this end the organisation has a self-imposed remit of exhibiting a minimum of 60% Welsh or Wales-based artists. G39 does not make curatorial distinctions between differing career levels of artists, but has focussed its attention on emerging artists. The organisation sees its role as a ‘bridge’ between the artist, and the public, and a key component of the curatorial rationale is bringing contemporary work to new audiences. 10 years = 271 artists = 60 exhibitions = 70,000 visitors.
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