A City Needs its Dreams
There’s a much-loved artist who appears to have taken up residence on a busy intersection in Cape Town’s historic Heritage Square area.
Paul du Toit’s monumental black and blue bronze Into Tomorrow, which already occupies a prominent spot on the corner of the square, now has a brother-in-arms in the bold primary-coloured Expanded Canvas series, which occupies the entrance to the Cape Heritage Hotel on Bree Street.
Here it has a grand view of Liam Tomlin’s The Bailey brasserie, where a third sculpture, Stargazer, elevates the Paul du Toit private dining room on the first floor. The dining room features several of the artist’s works, a floor reconstructed on his studio workspace, and the bronze Paper Monster.
A visit to Victoria Engelhorn’s Cape Heritage Hotel and its various dining options is well worth it. In the foyer-library you’ll find a classic 2003 Paul du Toit (Untitled) painting. Venture on, and under the oldest living vine in the Southern Hemisphere (planted in 1771), to the courtyard with its restaurants, wine bar, café and Dorrance Winery. It’s an entrance into the delights and surprises of historic Cape Town, and an invitation to reconsider your surroundings. It’s a chance to look back, look up, and perhaps to dream.
For more information on these works and more, contact Lorette du Toit
Into Tomorrow | 1770 x 2920mm | Bronze ed of 5 | 2015 | Riebeeck Square | Image: Gregor Röhrig
Expanded Canvas series | H: 2650mm | Concrete canvas and polyurethane paint | 2012 | Cape Heritage Hotel
Untitled | 1400 x 1200mm | Oil and acrylic on canvas | 2003 | Cape Heritage Hotel
Stargazer | H: 2620mm | Mixed media | 2010 | The Bailey, outside the Paul du Toit private dining room
Various artworks, including the painted bronze Paper Monster | Paul du Toit private dining room at The Bailey
