But it’s not just the city’s natural and culinary singularity that guarantees a premium lifestyle experience; the South African creative impetus without fail always reaches its climax during the hottest months of the year, in which the country and continent’s most brilliant and dynamic creative minds converge on Africa’s southernmost tip.
As just one example of the summer of 2020’s offerings for those choosing to make the cultural pilgrimage to Cape Town is Kate Gottgens’ striking new exhibition at SMAC gallery in Cape Town, entitled Skyglow on Mars Black. Featuring a new body of dystopian paintings made by the Capetonian artist Gottgens during the lockdown months, her artworks are a striking collection of brightly-hued, futuristic canvases which invite both deep introspection as well as escape. With its imaginary landscapes and arresting visual qualities, Gottgens’ exhibit is a testament to the creative, reflexive spirit of South African art—qualities which will surely make Cape Town one of the most enticing post-coronavirus destinations in terms of its cultural innovations.

In a similar vein, Stevenson Gallery recently inaugurated its second exhibition with the artist Mame-Diarra Niang entitled Call Me When You Get There. A collection of 52 intimate works conceived during lockdown isolation out of a desire to exercise freedom of movement and to overcome psychological and physical boundaries through technology, Niang’s exhibit invites the viewer to lose themselves within the stills of warped Google Maps images—a call to freedom and escape after a year that has been largely defined by stasis and restriction.

If you desire a truly unique destination experience, Cape Town beckons. We at In Residence by Pieter Brundyn look forward to welcoming you this summer to our villas, and wish you the warmest season’s greetings.

Although strikingly different from a visual perspective, in both Gottgens’ and Niang’s exhibitions, we find the common threads of introspection and escapism; both exhibits are striking testaments to the power of the imagination of African contemporary art. This escapist impulse, this imagination, although perhaps in a different sense and context, is also shared by us. Indeed, we at In Residence by Pieter Brundyn are uncompromisingly dedicated to fulfilling our mission of realizing our clientele’s desire for intimacy and escape through our carefully-curated luxury villas and in-house concierge service which ensure a discreet, personalized, and refined experience of the Mother City and all that it has to offer.

Moreover, Cape Town’s array of accessible holiday experiences and accommodation is rendered even more accessible in the summertime, with global airlines offering direct seasonal flights from major cities across the United States and Europe.

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