A MATTER OF CONTEMPORARY CONNECTIONS: Investec Cape Town Art Fair February 18 - 20, 2022 Cape Town International Convention Centre www.investeccapetownartfair.co.za
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rt has contemporaneity built into its very core; always moving forward with the present. Even the oldest of masters can cast their art practice in new art movements, opening eyes to the past in a new manner. The most avant-garde of creations test the limits of the art-lover’s experience. Of course, the global pandemic turned the entire art world upside down, significantly impacting museums, galleries and other places where we usually revel in the creations of the talented. The global pandemic has forced our experience of art to change and adapt the way in which we interact and trade with art has evolved. A globally influential operation like Investec Cape Town Art Fair was not going to let this challenge of a bold, new environment go unchallenged. As a seasoned fair, with nine years of expertise, the newest iteration of the popular cultural Cape Town highlight has reinvented itself boldly and bravely. This could, in fact, be the blueprint of all future art expos, merging the digital with the physical space. From Friday, February 18, the three fair days in the Cape Town International Convention Centre (CTICC), is geared for a new experience, combining the physical with the digital, underlining the contemporaneity of the art experience.
99 Loop Gallery, Paul Wallington, Blind Spot, 2021, Oil on canvas, 130 x 110 cm
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