PORTRAIT AWARD 2023

DIGITAL ENTRIES OPEN ON 1 JUNE 2023 AND CLOSE ON 10 JUNE 2023

1ST PRIZE: R150 000

2ND PRIZE: R 30 000

3RD PRIZE: R 20 000 www.rust-en-vrede.com/ portrait-award/

14. M.O.L 35 - WHEN WE SEE US Ashraf Jamal Column

20. INVESTEC CAPE TOWN ART FAIR 2023 10 Reasons to Celebrate 10 Years of ICTAF

32. A SPOTLIGHT ON 2023 The Melrose Gallery Shares Creative Year Ahead

36. PORTRAIT AWARD 2023 Have you started working on your Portrait Award entry yet?

40. WHAT THE CIRCUS LEFT BEHIND New Works by Vanessa Berlein

46. MAKING SPACE Nicole Clare Fraser’s Photographic Traces of Absence

50. FACES AND PHASES Solomon Omogboye: The Many Faces of Humanity

56. ECHOES OF TIME & THE DAMAGE STILL REMAINS

NWU Gallery Presents a Year of Legacy Artists

62. HERMANUS FYNARTS 2023 Stimulating and Entertaining Arts and Culture

66. BUSINESS ART Fine Art Auction highlights

82. ARTGO Exhibition Highlights

It gives me great pleasure to bring you this year’s 2023 Investec Cape Town Art Fair edition of the Art Times, not only because it is packed with incredible art, but because in my mind it heralds a new year and signs of new movements in contemporary art. In history, great events such as wars and disasters have been the pressure cookers of change, and I believe the last 3 years of Covid, Social Media, and isolation might have brought new ideas, thoughts, and behavior to the art communities and markets. To a large degree, life goes on as before, but I am sure that just as the young Dadaists coped with the madness of war in the early 20th Century, the youth today, I hope will bring good change and promise of a new more inclusive and hopefully diverse way of thought and life within a fast shrinking world, where art competes even more with short attention spans, and the quest for the next sensationalized type world.

Be sure to read this month’s Ashraf Jamal’s MOL (Man of Letters) as well as 10 reasons to enjoy the 10th Investec Cape Town Art Fair. Nicole Claire Frazers’ photographs shown at The Daor Gallery are haunting while the call for entries to the Rust en Vrede Portrait Award provides a buzz for all artists to enter their work for this prestigious prize. Lastly, something colourful and wild to look forward to the Cape Winter is the Hermanus Fynarts Festival 9-18 June is probably more interesting than most local art festivals given the scope, diversity, and sheer magic it brings to Hermanus from the rest of South Africa.

Please be sure to pop into our ArtGo Art events page artgo.co.za from time to time for a daily fix of what is happening in the local and international art community and markets, Enjoy!

Gabriel Clark-Brown

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