How does the world see us? is probably not a rhetorical question which exercises too many artists. But as a flâneur at the Cape Town Art Fair last night, it was interesting to see how the Kingdom of Bacchus is perceived by fine artists.
Here is a performance piece involving a fly and a bottle of Krug. Meanwhile at the sell out show at the Everard Read Gallery, an artist with a wonderfully Dickensian name, Caryn Scrimgeour, portrays some iconic SA wine brands in her witty paintings.
Pierre Jourdan:
La Bri:
and Tassenberg: