Cape Town Art Fair announces participating galleries, curators and programmes
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Cape Town Art Fair announces participating galleries, curators and programmes
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CAPE TOWN.- The Cape Town Art Fair has announced the participating galleries for its fourth edition. According to Fair Director, Matthew Partridge, “The Fair will feature a diversity of work that represents the forefront of innovation, bringing together contemporary art from Africa and the world".

Azu Nwagbogu and Ruth Simbao, co-curators of the 2016 Cape Town Art Fair’s special project, Tomorrows/Today, will be joined by a jury panel comprising of Visual Art Curator at the Steirischer Herbst Festival in Graz, Austria, Luigi Fassi; Curator of Contemporary Art at the Iziko National Gallery, Ernestine White and Collector/Producer of SABC's Generations, Mfundi Vundla.

The Talks Program, which will feature a host of local and international participants, will aim to reconsider the relationships of art fairs, cultural institutions and inter-continental exchange whilst focussing on Africa's place in the global conversation around contemporary art production.

International speakers will include Founder and Director of Biz Art in Shanghai, Davide Quadrio; Curator of International Art at London's Tate Modern, Kerryn Greenberg; Clare Lilley, Director of the Yorkshire Sculpture Park and Curator of the Frieze Sculpture Park 2015; Alia Swastika, Director of the 13th Biennale Jogja Yogyakarta; Commissioner and Artistic Director of the Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art in Ekaterinburg, Russia, Alisa Prudnikova and artist Zhuang Hui from China.

They will be joined by Curator of Special Projects at the Wits Art Museum, Fiona Rankin-Smith; Raphael Chikukwa, Chief Director of the National Gallery of Zimbabwe and Christopher Till, Director of the upcoming Javett Centre for the Arts at the University of Pretoria and the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg.

Moderators of the panels will include the Head Curator at the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, Claudio Cravero and Head of Production and International Projects at the Liverpool Biennale, Francesca Bertolotti. The final platform on the talks program will feature a round table discussion between artist Sue Williamson who will be joined by journalist Sean O'Toole and Mark Gevisser who will be discussing her upcoming monograph, ‘Sue Williamson: Life and Work’, edited by Gevisser and published by Skira.

The 2016 Cape Town Art Fair also announced that it will coincide with Art Week Cape Town which, according to the event’s founder Jonathan Garnham from Blank Projects, shines a spotlight on the vibrant contemporary art scene in Cape Town. In so doing, it brings together a focused programme of events at galleries, institutions and artists’ studios throughout the city. The Art Week Cape Town programme of events will begin in the week leading up to the Cape Town Art Fair and end the following week with Iziko Museums’ Open Museums Night.

In addition to the Talks Programme, visitors to the Fair can enjoy curated walkabouts twice a day with a guest curator as part of the VIP Programme.










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