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
This work was painted in studio following an intensive two-week painting retreat on a farm just outside Prince Albert in the Karoo. For the artist, landscape exists in a space between sensation and form. Parsons’ work explores this duality, capturing both the ephemeral experience of a place and the structural elements that define it.
In dialogue with the exhibition AbstRacT – the hidden synchrony, the work invites the viewer to navigate 'the tension between chaos and harmony, fragility and strength'. Through abstraction, Parsons seeks to evoke the feeling of a place rather than merely depict it, allowing space for personal interpretation and reflection.
Colour plays a vital role in this process – a visceral response that conveys the energy and mood of the landscape rather than simply its form. Using colour, layered mark-making, gestural brushstrokes, and an interplay of structure and dissolution, the viewer can explore the space between recognition and feeling.
This work continues the conversation of landscape as more than a visual record. It is a lived experience, an emotional terrain, and a shifting balance between presence and memory
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