Cape Town and the surrounding regions have aptly been characterized as being “creatively liberal”. This description is easily supported by a walk through the city streets at night as production crews scramble to shoot memorable cinema. The freedom to create filters into the public spaces of the city in sculpture, on walls and onto city streets in song
VISUAL & EXPERIENTIAL EUPHORIA
Luxury Africa Safaris’ connection to local art and artists is available for you to indulge yourself.
There are more than 100 galleries within the City of Cape Town alone. Together with the Winelands and coastal regions of the Cape – this number grows even larger. Luxury Africa Safaris has taken great care to sift through the seemingly overwhelming selection to identify the best of the defined and even recently classified art genres.
South Africa has served up some of the world’s most celebrated artists – William Kentridge, Jackson Hlungwani, Irma Stern and others – all these works can be found on display in the Cape region.
Tour, with exclusive access, the Dylan Lewis Sculpture Garden or the Lionel Smit Studio & Gallery with the possibility of meeting either of artists. The list of preferred and highly regarded venues where visual art is best experienced is extensive and includes the following among others: The Everard Read Gallery (Foreshore, Cape Town), The Goodman Gallery (Cape Town City), The Rupert Art Museum (Stellenbosch) together with The Old Biscuit Mill (Woodstock, Cape Town) and The Foundry (Woodstock, Cape Town).
A new and exciting addition of the Art landscape of the Cape and for South Africa as a whole will be the completion of the incredible Zeitz MOCCA Gallery in the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront. The introduction of this feature-filled gallery will set the region up as a prime destination for the appreciation and acquisition of sought after visual creations.
THE CAPE YOUR CANVAS
Weave an Authentic African Story
With all that is on offer from touring the Cape Town City region and surrounds. You sense keenly that the art is not merely stored on blank-canvas or hid in un-sculpted stone. Luxury Africa Safaris together with you, will create a master piece of an experience that marries the sublime and the unforgettable into a tapestry of moments that will inspire you to memorialize your time with us
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CULINARY CREATIONS
What is art with-OUT if there is no art with-IN?
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so if you’re appetite for the creative extends to one of the culinary delight the experience does not stop once you enter the dining room. From what is plated before you, to the architectural genius of the housing you’re dinning in and culminating in the combination of it all – the food, the setting and the experience – it only be described as “art”. The range of worldclass South African restaurants within in reach of any of the amazing above galleries: Pierneef a La Motte (Franschhoek); La Grande Provence (Franschhoek); Delaire Graff Restaurant & Indochine Restaurant (Helshoogte); Cavalli Estate Restaurant (Stellenbosch); Waterkloof & Camphors on Vergelegen (Somerset West); The Potluck Club & Test Kitchen (Old Biscuit Mill, Cape Town);