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Following in the footsteps of the
successful Joburg Art Fair is the Spring Art Tour, with galleries and
restaurants taking part.
IF you got high on the Joburg Art
Fair in April, your next art fix is on the way. The Spring Art Tour hits the
city for four days in early October.
Self portrait by Mbongeni Buthelezi
Running from Thursday to Sunday,
8 to 11 October at galleries and restaurants around the city and its suburbs,
Joburgers should pull out their diaries and sharpen their pencils, because a
busy schedule has been put together by Artlogic, which was responsible for the
art fair.
Artlogic has organised the tour
based on the huge interest in contemporary art and design shown in the previous
two years' art fairs.
The tour will consist of specially curated gallery exhibitions, design shows
and special menus created by a number of restaurants.
The company has partnered with
Wanted Magazine, the Mail & Guardian online, Talk Radio 702 and Cape Talk
on the tour.
"Artlogic intends for the Spring
Art Tour to be not only one of the cultural and social events of the season in
the future, but also to be respected as one of the leading art brands in South Africa,"
reads the tour statement.
"With the success of the Joburg
Art Fair already proving that this is possible in such a short time, this looks
to be a more than achievable goal with the support of the cultural and
corporate community at large."
The Joburg tour takes in the
city's major art galleries: Everard Read, Goodman Gallery, Brodie Stevenson,
Gallery MOMO, David Krut Projects, Gallery AOP, Brodie Stevenson, Rooke Gallery,
CO-OP, Afronova, and GoetheOnMain.
Recommended places for meals
include Il Giardino Degli Ulivi at 44
Stanley Avenue, the Troyeville Hotel, Narina
Trogon in Braamfontein, Canteen at Arts on Main,
Fino in Parktown North, and the Monarch Hotel in Rosebank.
Abigail & Theo, Elsiesrivier by Joao Ferreira Araminta de Clermont
While each restaurant has
designed a special menu for the art tour, each gallery has planned a special
exhibition, opening on Thursday, 8 October.
There is a special projects
itinerary which includes art video projections and performance pieces. These
open on Friday, 9 October and include videos at Paul Smith in Parkhurst; a
10-year celebration at design store Tonic in Parktown North; and a special
opening of Willow Lamp at Paco Carpets in Greenside.
On Saturday, 10 October Black
Coffee and Bailey's African History Archives will participate with a special
projects line-up at Arts on Main in the CBD.
The BMW Art Talks, launched at
this year's art fair, will continue on the tour, with artists' talks and book
launches planned for Saturday. That evening the Spring Art Tour Grolsch Party
will take place at Arts on Main.
Highlight
A highlight of the tour will be going out to the Nirox Foundation
Sculpture Park
in the Cradle of Humankind on Sunday to view works by Willem Boshoff, Marco
Cianfernelli, Walter Oltman and Justin Fiske.
Eight senior painting students
from the University of the Witwatersrand will
exhibit with resident artist Toon Verhoef.
Verhoef is a leading Dutch
painter and professor of painting at Karlsruhe Akademie in Germany. His
works of large paintings, monotypes and silkscreens can be seen at Arts on Main from Thursday.
Boshoff will present a talk at
The Cradle Restaurant on Sunday, 11 October at 2.30pm. Several of his pieces
are housed at the sculpture park, and a series of his photographs will be
displayed as well.
Another event not to be missed is
photographer Greg Marinovich's talk entitled "The Bang Bang Club: the story
behind the photographs", at 6.30pm on Thursday, at the Rooke Gallery in Newtown.
All events are free of charge,
but the organisers stress that bookings should be made at restaurants in
advance, to avoid disappointment. Grolsch beer will be served at the evening
events.
The full programme is on the tour
website.
"We have worked to make the
Joburg Art Fair the pre-eminent art brand in the country within two years [and]
we believe the Spring Art Tours will become equally powerful art brands," said
Ross Douglas, the director of Artlogic.
The Spring Art Tour takes place
in Cape Town
and Stellenbosch over the first weekend in October, from Thursday to Sunday, 1
to 4 October.
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