Artists show off their best
2007-09-20
THE Cultivaria Festival boasts a huge collective art exhibition with more than 100 top artists participating in the Wine and Art Route in Paarl.
Art lovers can look forward to a celebration of visual arts at 14 galleries within a four kilometre stretch along Paarl’s Main Street.
Discover the diversity and synchronicity of 21st century art and explore the sensual combination of amazing art and fine wines during this visual arts showcase that incorporates different genres and media.
Top curators such as Lucy van Wyk, Wendy Roux, Cornelia Smook, Anna-Marie Scholtz, Riaan Vosloo, David Zetler, Carla Crafford and Sihan Wiid have collaborated with festival art consultant Johann du Plessis to create exhibitions featuring photography, sculpture, three-dimensional installations, fine art as well as various contemporary design genres such as floral, fashion, industrial and graphic design.
Exhibiting artists range from established local and international artists to young, upcoming new talent utilising different media from African beadwork, textiles, ceramics and pottery, paint, paper, plastic, bronze, wood, steel and glass.
Venues and galleries will be open all day until 18:00 for the duration of the route. A special catalogue of all artists’s work will be available for R50.
Times of official openings of the exhibitions are (Friday):
* 10:00 KWV Emporium in Kohler Street, Paarl South, with festival artist Kevin Brand’s “Set the world on fire”
* 11:00 Laborie wine cellar, Taillefer Street, Paarl South “In 1 Site” with Marthie Kaden
* 12:00 Di Rialto, 42C Main Street, Paarl “Intertwined/Interwoven” by Pamela Stretton and Lara Kruger
* 13:00 A Mortgage Loan, 113 Main Street, Paarl “One small world” with Cornelia Smook and Luan Nel
* 14:00 De Kraal Gallery, 123 Main Street, Paarl “Fusion” curated by Anna-Marie Scholtz
* 15:00 Wild Orchid Boutique, 135A Main Street, Paarl “A Slice of Tea, Truth telling and Touch” by Gerda Genis and Sonja Rademeyer
* 16:00 Décor Selections, 88 Main Street, Paarl, with “The Creative Block” by Jeanetta Blignaut
* 18:00 Eccentric Trading, 40A Main Street, Paarl South “Absolut Essence”
On Saturday:
* 10:00 Sotheby’s, 12 Cecelia Street, Paarl “Visuele Dialoog” from Guy du Toit and Carla Crafford
* 11:00 Off the Wall, 171 Main Street, Paarl “Diversity” curated by Wendy Roux
* 12:00 Paarlberg BMW, 199 Main Street, Paarl “I witness”, a photographic journey
* 14:00 Aslo, 205 Main Street, Paarl “Die voël met die af vlerk”, a visual discussion by Francois Bloemhof
* 15:00 Hout Street Gallery, 270 Main Street, Paarl “An expanding narrative” with local artists who embody the spirit of the Paarl valley, whether in landscape or in human condition.
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