Alan Belcher
Kill Me Button
Toronto, Canada: Art Metropole, 1997
2" diameter
Edition of 200
A button related to a controversial billboard Belcher produced for the Paradise Europe exhibition produced by Bizart, in Copenhagen, in 1992 (below). The billboard featured the artist's home phone number and the instruction/invitation to kill him.
Art Metropole commissioned a re-design of the work to display at Yonge and Dundas Street in Toronto in 1997, but the project was rejected by the billboard company at the last minute. The series also included Moriko Mori, Alfredo Jaar, and Steve Reinke. All were printed and all but Belcher's installed in public locations throughout the city of Toronto.
The 10-sheet, 10 x 20 feet billboards were produced in an edition of five, plus two printer's proofs and an artists' proof. They remain available for purchase from Art Met.
Of the 200 buttons produced, the first fifty are signed and numbered by Belcher.
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