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
The work is inspired by the movement that textured creases and crevices evoked in Synchromies #50 of the Betula Alba-Lake Region of Finland.
The mixed-media painting pays homage to the most influential, transient, and arguably most vital liquid on earth: water. However, water is singled out as the main subject matter, it can never be seen in singularity, but always within the larger sphere of what it encapsulates, folds, and tumbles into. Around bodies of water entire ecosystems are formed or burdened, with the human body being one of its vessels. However, our inclusion in this plurality has made water a humanist possession.
Modern theorists and activists argue that water is one of the most political substances in the 21st century, ranking it on the same level of economic importance as oil (Mosse & Street, 2019). Therefore, reshaping our ideas and use of water in The Age of The Anthropocene is now more important than ever.
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