Deadline: January 15,
2017
The Art Africa Fair 2017 is excited to announce their Open
Call for artists and galleries to participate in Africa’s first fully curated international
art fair, set to take place at the V&A Waterfront , Cape Town, between February
24 and March 5, 2017.
“The Art Africa Fair 2017 will provide artists a unique
opportunity to exhibit their work in this fully curated, commercial art fair.
Developed by internationally acclaimed curators Salimata Diop, Uche Okpa-Iroha,
Pierre-Christophe Gam, Thembinkosi Goniwe, and Ruzy Rusike, the curatorial
framework for the Art Africa Fair 2017 invites artists and gallerists to
propose work that challenges parochial perceptions surrounding Africa and
provokes alternative artistic visions of the continent as defined by
individual, lived experiences. Rather than trying to locate something specific
to the continent, our curatorial framework depends on engaging a multiplicity
of subjective curatorial and artistic narratives that tell their own story,”
say the organisers.
This diverse curatorial approach is an attempt to transform
vernacular African ideas into tangible expressions, to challenge stereotypical
understandings, and to introduce, propagate, and take responsibility for new
representations about Africa, from Africa. As participating curator Uche
Okpa-Iroha describes, “Our story starts with us. It is an exciting journey, and
who better to tell it?”
The Art Africa Fair 2017 is a meaningful, rapidly developing
collaborative environment that offers a propensity to explore and act in
relation to functional goals, framed by the individual to convey the visible,
simultaneous change in contemporary art.
This Open Call for submission goes to all artists,
photographers, designers, galleries, collectives/groups, and institutions who
are contributing to making a meaningful social, political, and environmental
impact through their work. Artists working in any medium are invited to propose
work for the exhibition. Galleries are invited to propose artists or a series
of artworks from various artists that fit or challenge the curatorial framework
of the fair.
Selected artists will be showcased in a museum-styled
exhibition, alongside other artists and projects whose work functions in
dialogue with their own. Here artists will have the opportunity to showcase
their work in a fully-curated environment and will be provided access to an international
network of gallerists, curators, and collectors. The deadline for applications
has been extended to January 15 2017.
To download the application form, click on https://gallery.mailchimp.com/57e12af16ba16f8fba07f3b8d/files/APPLICATION_FORM_ART_AFRICA_FAIR_2017.pdf?mc_cid=7ed59a04b9&mc_eid=fa81c92c73
Complete all necessary information and send application to applications@artafricamagazine.org
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