Named for Duchamp's urinal, Fountain is an installation-based art fair held in a sprawling Wynwood warehouse at 2505 North Miami Avenue. As opposed to other hoity-toity Art Basel artists, those included in Fountain are rooted in the DIY aesthetic, they're approachable, and they offer art that's actually affordable. Last year, in addition to their indie artists, they had Brooklyn group Chairlift, retro dance group G-Love, and a sweat lodge on stilts full of naked people.
At the previous Fountain fair, Brooklyn artist Greg Haberny mistook our art critic Carlos
Suarez de Jesus for a fire inspector as he was stringing lights on a
sculpture that was "part birthday cake part capitalist Christmas tree."
Carlos wrote: "The concoction bristled with dozens of kitchen knives
Haberny had plunged into the piece. It was part of an installation he
calls Wanker's Ball replete with padded walls and floors covered in pink
polka dots and dozens of mixed media works across the manic sprawl."
Haberny's installation also included performance artist Rachel Hoffman,
who served as a bleeding Sleep Beauty who later performed a striptease.
Another Fountain artist, Johnny Fenix, had silk screens of pink brains
superimposed by penises and beer cans as well as paintings depicting
Jesus on a bucking bronco or flipping off spectators with both hands. No
word yet on which artists will exhibit at this year's Fountain Miami,
held December 2 - 5, but we just wanted to say: We'll definitely be
there and loving it. Bring on the stripping Disney characters, angry Jesus's, and penis art.
