Featuring a rich array of mediums including installation, video, drawing, sculpture, painting and photography, the special project will give art enthusiasts, investors and collectors the opportunity to experience the works of eight emerging artists from around the continent.
Curators Azu Nwagbogu and Ruth Simbao, whose contribution to the special project is the title
Consuming Us, say; “This special project aims to open up ideas about consumption by playfully yet seriously considering the ways in which tomorrow’s artists cannot and should not be pinned down by today’s ideas. Furthermore, it contemplates the ways in which human beings are consumed by so many aspects of life. ‘Consuming Us’ provides a platform for the eight artists to speak about the ideas and concerns – whether small, large, positive, negative, tangled or in-between – that consume them.”
The artists include Tania Petersen of Everard Read, Rehema Chachage from Circle Art Agency, Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude from First Floor Gallery, Masimba Hwati from SMAC, Laura Windvogel (AKA Lady Skollie) of WorldArt, Ruby Onyinyechi Amanze from Goodman Gallery, Kyle Morland from Blank and Mathias Chirombo of Gallery Noko.
The participants of Tomorrows/Today will be judged by a panel that includes Luigi Fassi, the Visual Art Curator at the
Steirischer Herbst Festival in Graz, Austria and Ernestine White, Curator of Contemporary Art the South African National Gallery and will receive a prize of R75 000.
The 2016
Cape Town Art Fair will be taking place at the Cape Town International Convention Centre from Friday, 19 to Sunday, 21 February.
For more information, visit
www.capetownartfair.co.za. Alternatively, connect with them on
Facebook or on
Twitter.