Sculpture Forum 59: Garth Evans in Cardiff, 1972 and 2019

Опубликовано: 02 Февраль 2024
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Sculpture Forum 59: Garth Evans in Cardiff
An audio discussion recorded December 19, 2023, between Garth Evans, Michael Brenson, Jock Ireland, and Brandt Junceau about Garth Evans’ public sculpture "Untitled Sculpture" first installed in Cardiff, Wales, in 1972. Fifty years later, and multiple audio interviews, two books, a play, and a reinstallation in between, Garth, Michael, Jock, and Brandt discuss it all.

“The place for sculpture in the world is not a place I’m comfortable with, or in.”
“I didn’t attempt to make another public sculpture again until very recently.”
—Garth Evans

“The language around it has a surrealist resonance about it… Something’s at play that you don’t know yourself… There’s all this stuff that’s part of the language of the work, part of how it’s made, and then you left the work, you abandoned it… And then you need to go back, and you need to understand your relationship to the work....then it’s clear you need a completely different language….The books become this process of exploration, of digging. So it becomes this voyage of discovery.”
— Michael Brenson

“You’ve really done your damnedest, to speak to people one-to-one.... You really want to hear back from them, and they have this gulf to come over, to reach you, and to hear what you’ve said…
—Brandt Junceau

“That kind of meaning seems to me not as important— the kids who played on it in 1972 and remember playing on it. That’s not as important as the miners who are being memorialized, all the people outside of you. That’s where I’m coming from. It’s not something you can understand. You’re trying to understand it by talking about a situation where there’s a public that looks at the sculpture and responds to it.”
—Jock Ireland

To see the books, read about the play, or to watch the sizzle for the upcoming film by David Shayne, here are some links:

https://soberscove.com/book/the-cardi...
https://soberscove.com/book/the-cardi...
https://www.cardifftapes.com/

Sculpture Forum; confronting sculpture.
I have launched this project because I feel that there is a need for it, a hunger even.
It is a simple concept; small groups, led by a sculptor, confronting sculptures and articulating the thoughts, feelings, ideas and associations that the works provoke. These conversations will take place in museums, galleries, studios and in front of public works. The ensuing discussion is video taped and made public in such a way that others can respond, extending the exchange. Most of the arts have well-established mechanisms through which the meaning and significance of a particular work is forged yet, too often, sculpture is dealt with as an adjunct to painting. This project aims to give sculptors themselves a place to disclose how they look at sculptures, and along with educators, critics and others, to share how they engage with them and what they consider valuable about them.

Garth Evans, 2018