Celebrated British conceptual artist Ryan Gander is the headline participant of a group show at Castlefield Gallery this summer. The event, running in conjunction with Manchester Art Gallery’s major Gander solo show, explores the artist’s Culturefield concept – an imagined place with the ideal conditions for creativity.
Entitled I Would Like to Join a Club and Hit Myself with It (a masochistic take on the Groucho Marx line from Duck Soup), the exhibition also features North West colleagues Robert Carter, Helen Collett, Monty, Lois MacDonald, and Joe Fletcher Orr. The group is united by its questioning attitude, suggesting strange hypothetical scenarios and exploring the odd directions they find themselves heading. Gander, for example, wonders what would happen if a child’s temporary bed sheet fort was reconstructed from memorialising marble, or what if the pieces of a chess set were made from zebra wood, and other work in the show ranges in subject matter from research into flies to fine wine as an investment opportunity. The exhibition runs until 17 August.
Ryan Gander,
Porthole to Culturefield Revisited, 2010
Monty Pyramid, 2014
Joe Fletcher
Orr Turnt Down, 2014
Joe Fletcher
Orr Just-Eat [edible gallery interpretation]
Photo, John Lynch
Helen Collett
Drink Now / Lay Down 2011-2020, 2014
Robert Carter
Line Drawing, 2014
