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
Dubois' recent work has been greatly influenced by artist, Erik Laubscher, whose Riviersonderend simplifies the landscape into abstract forms. The artist believes that we are connected: man, nature and God. Abstract art – a celebration of form and colour – is a way to express this connection.
Reflecting on a month-long art residency on a farm outside Prince Albert, the artist recounts entering the Swartberg Pass, where the rock presented itself majestically. Dubois was drawn to a place of wonder and awe. For the next four weeks, she studied the Pass and Meiringspoort, returning to it again and again, wrestling with it and surrendering to it. It became part of her. At first, the rock seemed lifeless. Dubois pondered the words “Look to the rock from which you were cut”, an ancient Biblical text pointing to her true identity. Gradually, it dawned on her: she and the rock are one.
Dubois works mainly in ink, a translucent, versatile medium that resembles the fluidity of water, yet is capable of producing a solid, rock-like surface. This medium in itself is part of her practice, as she constantly keeps exploring its boundaries and character. This artwork was completed en plein air while the artist was in residency in the Klein-Karoo.
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