AbstRacT – Synchrony Revealed
Online-Only Auction, 4 - 23 July 2025
AbstRacT – Synchrony Revealed
About the SessionIn 2024, the Rupert Museum presented AbstRacT – The Hidden Synchrony, an exhibition inspired by Oscar Forel’s Synchromies series - close-up photographs of tree bark that transformed the familiar into bold abstraction. These works were paired with South African modernist paintings from the museum’s collection, creating surprising visual harmonies and fresh interpretations.
Building on this concept, AbstRacT – Synchrony Revealed is the result of the museum’s third Open Call, which received over 300 submissions. From these, 41 artists were selected to showcase their work in a group exhibition - now part of an exclusive online auction in collaboration with Strauss & Co.
The auction offers collectors a chance to discover new voices engaging with themes of ecology, memory, materiality, and abstraction. Each work reveals a dynamic interplay between natural form and artistic expression - where chance, structure, and symbolism collide.
During the period of the online auction the exhibition is accessible to be viewed at the Jan Rupert Art Centre, 41 Middle street, Graaff-Reinet.
Collection of the artworks will be available once the exhibition closes on 16 November 2025.
Please contact Eliz-Marie Schoonbee to arrange collection/delivery
tel: 021 888 3261
email: eliz-marie@rupertmuseum.org
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This artwork captures the rhythmic dance of waves through an innovative fusion of texture, colour, and movement. Created on a circular board, it captures the rhythmic energy of the sea through bold, sculptural waves sculpted from thick acrylic pigment. The acrylic pigment is carefully manipulated across the surface using brushes, palette knives, and an air compressor, mimicking the force of wind-shaping ocean swells. The resulting wave-like textures create depth and fluidity, freezing a moment in time while evoking perpetual motion
The artwork’s stark white base is dramatically transformed by a hot pink and orange spray, applied from one angle and cyan from the opposite side. This technique produces high-contrast shadows and highlights, echoing the shifting interplay of light across the water’s surface – where the ocean can appear both tranquil and fierce within a single breath.
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