Buyers will be able to purchase some of South Africa's best contemporary art all under one roof in a celebration of some of the country's top artists and up-and-coming painters, sculptors, photographers and performance artists.
The Cape Town Art Fair will be held during this important time in Cape Town's art and design calendar in the year that the Mother City has been named the World Design Capital of 2014. World Design Capital (WDC) is a biannual honour, awarded by the International Council for Societies of Industrial Design, to cities across the globe to show their commitment to using design as a social, cultural and economic development tool.
Cape Town is the design training hub of the country. It is the headquarters of most of the creative industry and the City of Cape Town has received many awards celebrating excellent design. The 2014 award year is an opportunity for Cape Town to showcase accomplishments in design and urban policy. The Cape Town Art Fair will once again showcase an exhilarating diversity of work representative of the richness, promise and investment value of art coming out of South Africa.
At the same time both the Design Indaba expo and conference will be hosted at the CTICC and Southern Guild will be hosting its exhibition of at The Lookout V&A Waterfront.
The Cape Town Art Fair is held under the auspices of global exhibition giant, Fiera Milano with its art fairs MiArt Italy and Art International Istanbul. Exhibitors from the Cape Town Art Fair are invited to take part in these fairs.
Application forms to exhibit are now available on from www.artfaircapetown.co.za.
