The La Motte Museum not only offers displays depicting aspects of the Rupert family, focusing on Dr. Anton and Mrs. Huberte Rupert and the musical career of their daughter Hanneli Rupert, but also features the history of La Motte and its magnificently renovated buildings, with a brief review of Cape Dutch architecture.
This exhibition and the full-colour publication celebrate Huberte Rupert's art collection of 20th century South African Art. The book features a selection of 100 artworks from the collection, this includes works by both Modern and Contemporary South African artists.
The horison (Eng: horizon) is not only the distant line where the earth meets the sky; it also serves as a philosophical boundary, an ephemeral line of enlightenment, and a conceptual axis inspiring centuries of knowledge, aspirations, movements, and artistic creativity.
Please note that this exhibition is currently closed for routine maintenance and cleaning until further notice. You can still view the Johannesburg Station Panels virtually.
The retrospective of Albert Adams’ oeuvre spanned more than fifty years and highlighted his contribution as an exceptional artist and humanist. His remarkable, monumental triptychs, South Africa 1959, dubbed his “Guernica”, along with South Africa 1958-59 (Deposition), which features a crucified black Christ, was central to this exhibition. His self-portraits, a recurring theme in his work, displayed an agitated urgency and multi-levelled self-reflection.
The second Open Call of the Rupert Museum was launched in February - inviting all creatives from any platform to respond to iconic and ground-breaking inventions created in the eye of 1960s popular futuristic trends. As a result, over 200 entries were received with the judging panel reaching a conclusion of 39 successful applicants whose responsive artworks are now the IN-RESPONSE exhibition. In summary, the pieces you are about to encounter provide a contemporary take and material-based approach to the icons that served as its inspiration. The artists sought symbolic meaning while exploring the possibilities of their chosen subject, material and its execution. Mediums include painting, printmaking, ceramics, textiles and digital displays with various materials from recycled plastic, wood and steel to the more traditional.
The latest exhibition, entitled Rembrandt in the Karoo opened on 25 May 2023 in the Jan Rupert Art Centre. Graaff-Reinet. The exhibition focuses on the main categories of printmaking, illustrated by a very special selection and inclusion of Rembrandt van Rijn etchings as well as works by relevant South African artists and printmakers.
This exhibition takes a closer look at the synchrony in the Synchromies series by Swiss psychiatrist, psychotherapist and later turned photographer Oscar Forel (1891-1982). This was published in 1961 and forms part of the Huberte Goote Art Foundation Collection. The study of trees, their growth, their bark and identifying signs of events the tree had witnessed were the crucial aspects in this series – that are truly fragments of a larger whole.
Artist JH Pierneef’s (1886-1957) most acclaimed public commission was completed between 1929 and 1932. The Johannesburg Station Panels have been characterised as the epitome of the South African landscape genre. The rehang of the Johannesburg Station Panels, now open for viewing, brings various opinions and theories to the fore.
The selection of 20th-century portraits and figures offer the viewer, now in the observant role, a range of artistic techniques to enjoy. These works are from the permanent collections managed by the Rupert Museum in Stellenbosch.
