Group Show
Tender Stems
Private View 28th July, 6-9pm
Unit P, Deansgate Mews, Great Northern, 235 Deansgate, M3 4EN
Open 29th, 30th & 31st July / 5th, 6th & 7th August
PaintingWriting is a Manchester-based group of early-career painters focused on elevating the status of writing within painting. ‘Tender Stems’ is a group Show inspired by Gertrude Stein’s chapter ‘Food’ in the Modernist prose collection ‘Tender Buttons’ (1914).
With a focus on painting and expanded painting in the realms of sculpture, photography, installation, performance and film - and in the spirit of Fluxus ‘salad-makers’ - artists were asked to respond to a set of surreal food instructions taken from the ‘Tender Buttons’ text, such as;
‘BUTTER
Boom in, boom in, butter. Leave a grain and show it, show it.
I spy.
It is a need it is a need that a flower a state flower. It is a need that a state rubber. It is a need that a state rubber is sweet and sight and a swelled stretch. It is a need. It is a need that state rubber.
Wood a supply.
Clean little keep a strange, estrange on it.
Make a little white, no not with pit, pit on in within.’
PaintingWriting
28/07/22
07/08/22
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