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Saturday 23 November 2019

Aruba Art Fair:

‘Creating a platform for

local and international art’

ORANJESTAD – Aruba Art Fair is welcoming you this week-
end. The inspirational town of San Nicolas will be filled
with art, culture, food and music. You cannot miss this op-
portunity to see another side of Aruba and connect to the
local community. So hop in your car or take that cab to
our ‘Street Art Capital of the Caribbean’.

The main street of San Nicolas presents you performing
artists, artesans offering their hand made artifacts, poets
and dancers, theatre and street artists. Also there will be
a pop-up restaurant with an Indian theme catered by the
Renaissance Aruba Resort. The magazine Forbes named
San Nicolas the Street Art Capital City because of its
colorful murals that were created by over 30 artists from
all over the world. Local designers added their input to
these open-air art works among others Robby Solognier,
Armando Goedgedrag and George Rossel. This year the
youngster Rachid Lowe (15) created one of the murals.

Art fair supports creative young people like the Gang di
Arte, poets, dancers and musicians. Tonight the Art Fair
will pay special attention to Aruba’s culture of music,
food, traditions, art and identification. In that light the edi-
tion is called Caya Aruba. Sunday’s Art Fair highlights the
multicultural face of the island whereas more than 30 na-
tionalities will present their culture through dances, music
and food. The focus will be on integration and eleminate
war to unite.

International artists will show a 3D art work called ‘Op-
tic augmentation or optical illusions’ while local artsist will
create another jewel of mural drawing. Our local artists
Elvis Tromp will be honored for his contribution of more
than 50 years to the art of painting.

Aruba Art Fair 2019 starts at 7Pm and more information is
to be found at Facebook Aruba Art Fair.q