This painting will be destroyed if you do not rescue
it!
This December at Verge Art Fair Allen Vandever will be
bringing you Rescue or Destroy, an interactive installation where it will
be up to the public to rescue the artwork on display or witness its destruction.
Each participant will be presented with a list of challenges to choose from and
complete to guarantee the safety of one piece. If they are unable to step out of
their comfort zone to spare whatever is on the chopping block, the art will be
obliterated using various tools and devastating techniques.
Vandever will also
be bringing Rescue or Destroy to the streets of Miami for Art Basel.
Random passersby will be presented with a work of art and asked to decide its
fate on the spot: save the art with a donation or watch it meet its violent end.
In addition to orchestrating these roving street performances, Vandever will be
exhibiting from work from Team Art!, a Chicago artist collective comprised of
Jason Davis, Mario Gonzalez, Jr. (Zore), Mike Reynolds, Elisa Sandoval, Sofia
Moreno, and Katrina Petrauskas, at the Essex hotel as part of Verge Art Fair. He
will also have a solo space at Verge featuring his new series
titled OpErotica, a combination of Op Art and Erotica painted in an
inwardly 3-D style that Vandever has developed over the course of his
career.
VERGE ART MIAMI BEACH AT THE ESSEX HOUSE AND CLEVELANDER HOTELS 1001 Collins Ave. and 1020 Ocean Drive @ 10th St. (across from the Wolfsonian) December 6-9, 2012
EVENT IS FREE DECEMBER 7th -
9th.
