A little thing I made for the end of the year, displayed at A4 Arts Foundation, Cape Town (December 2021 – March 2022).
From A4’s website:
“END x 1250 is a gift; an invitation to ‘please take one.’ Gabrielle Guy received a phone call from the printers letting her know that there was space on the sheet of a catalogue commission she was willing toward completion as the year approached its close. With the printing technique, paper, inks, page size and print run already determined by the project underway, she had ten minutes to think of something to salvage the space, or see it go to waste. The result is a slender, slippery stack of 1250 ‘ends’ (or thereabouts, accommodating the printer’s tendency to extras) for giving away. Gabrielle Guy makes books. As a ‘bookish’ artist, she is interested in pictures of pictures; the reproduction of artworks into the catalogues that she is most often assembling. Images in books are ordered. In being bound, the book is resolved. Where the book presents conviction, these are loose-ends, multiples, an end for whoever wants (or needs) it.”
From A4’s website:
“END x 1250 is a gift; an invitation to ‘please take one.’ Gabrielle Guy received a phone call from the printers letting her know that there was space on the sheet of a catalogue commission she was willing toward completion as the year approached its close. With the printing technique, paper, inks, page size and print run already determined by the project underway, she had ten minutes to think of something to salvage the space, or see it go to waste. The result is a slender, slippery stack of 1250 ‘ends’ (or thereabouts, accommodating the printer’s tendency to extras) for giving away. Gabrielle Guy makes books. As a ‘bookish’ artist, she is interested in pictures of pictures; the reproduction of artworks into the catalogues that she is most often assembling. Images in books are ordered. In being bound, the book is resolved. Where the book presents conviction, these are loose-ends, multiples, an end for whoever wants (or needs) it.”
END x 1250, 2021
Lithographic print in CMYK at 175 linescreen on Hi-Q Titan Gloss Art 128gsm
285 x 210mm
Edition of 1250
Lithographic print in CMYK at 175 linescreen on Hi-Q Titan Gloss Art 128gsm
285 x 210mm
Edition of 1250
“proto~ the store at A4 Arts Foundation is intended as a space for practitioners to imagine into, where they can sell edge objects that may as yet be propositional, from fragments to off-cuts. Because Gabrielle wanted to gift the work freely to the public, we decided to place it at the entrance to A4’s free-to-public library instead of inside the museum shop. As a take-away, END x 1250 plays with the proposition of the museum store. The ‘gift-shop’ comes to mind.”
