AbstRacT – Synchrony Revealed
Timed Online 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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Notes
Eloff-Potgieter's work embodies her appreciation for the natural environment. Influenced by discourses of environmental awareness, her work renders an ambiguous reflection towards a transient world. The abstraction of the subject matter creates a dissociation, which leaves a resolution just out of reach. Through her chosen medium of charcoal and pastels, a scrutiny of the more intimate parts of nature is considered, which are constantly in flux between an apprehensiveness of ecological loss and naïve admiration.
This artwork nostalgically references a scene from the local Ben 10 Eco Challenge in which the artist participated in 2022, exploring a selection of high-altitude scenic gravel passes, situated in the Eastern Cape highlands. This momentary recollection recalls a brief instant before an incoming storm, which stirs up the feeling of vulnerability and unease, yet simultaneously promising renewal.
Forel’s Synchromies #4 and Synchromies #40 evoked a similar embrace, being confronted with a landscape unfamiliar to the mind but familiar to the soul, portraying a longing for humanity to communicate with so much honest empathy as nature inherently does.
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