A highlight on Cape Town’s winter art calendar, this year’s featured exhibition, Satire and Irony, showcased a selection of paintings by Robert Hodgins, Stanley Pinker and Alexander Podlashuc and sculptures by Peter Haden, from the collections of the Kilbourns, Marion and Jonathan Bloch, Erin and Leo Podlashuc, Caro Wiese and other private collectors.
This charity initiative, founded by collectors Lizelle and Frank Kilbourn in 2014, grew out of a conversation between Frank and Stephan Welz, Strauss & Co’s founding managing director about hosting a charity event to support the preservation of the illustrious manor home and cultural heritage Welgemeend, anno 1693, which was declared a monument in 1944.
Frank Kilbourn, who is Strauss & Co’s chairperson, says: “Art Month at Welgemeend is an important passion project for Strauss & Co and for us as a family. Over the past six years Art Month at Welgemeend has established itself as a powerful platform for private collectors to show their work to an art-interested public. I am particularly excited this year to be collaborating with long-time friends from the art community and business.”
As is custom, Art Month at Welgemeend also included an exciting social and educational programme. The educational committee has selected two art-themed films.
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