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
About this Item
Notes
The uniquely faded, dematerialised photographic image is a metaphor for the effects that climate change is having on the Arctic seascape and, ultimately, our rising sea levels. Representing a tipping point, a moment of significant and irreversible change.
A project that originates from 2016, the digital photograph (originally in colour and then converted to black and white) were made on a trip around Scoresby Sund, on the east coast of Greenland, while onboard North Sailing's silent electric-powered expedition vessel, the Ópal. Lydiat had them printed onto poster paper with low-grade inks. The images were then exposed to the sun's UV rays, both inside and outside, over differing periods of time.
The artist has made several voyages above the Arctic Circle, firstly, sailing from Bergen up the coast of Norway as far as Murmansk, Russia. She also sailed to Pyramiden, an abandoned Russian coal mining settlement
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