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. & 1020 Ocean
Drive @ 10th St. (across from the Wolfsonian)
December 6-9, 2012
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