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The arena of contrasting sugar and red wine in this painting,
despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance,
create in the mind
images rich
in meaning and association...
This striking piece is
an expression of
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the creation of the
shapes
where the essential identity to the piece
is
the essential distinction between pattern and texture.
This image is
representative of
one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art,
the perception of the
arena of contrasting tone and hue
where the extraordinarily refined aesthetic sensibility to the piece
is
in some sense
positive
rather than simply one of passive comprehension.
In stereometric construction,
the visual phenomena of the
external
world are, in themselves, unimportant:
the important
thing is feeling, as such.
The dominant angularity and horizontality
of
Sol Aris's previous works are
still present,
but
completely altered.
The spectator is drawn by the
outstanding aesthetic sensibility
of the sketch into
the world of slender sinuous curves.
The artist uses
a limited canvas
to contain the
colours, which in this way
subsist in a world of their own doing.
A deep underlying meaning of the doodle is that it is the spiritual dimension and its
limitless possibilities.
The artist does not use
a limited canvas
to contain the
colours, which therefore
subsist in a world of their own doing.
A notable feature of the image is that it is in some sense
positive
rather than simply one of passive comprehension.
The
garnished
background
enriches
a division of space that parallels
our innermost confusion.
The sculpture shares not only Sol Aris's
death-identification
but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power.
``What does it all mean? I have little idea...
It seems to make use of an abstract idiom which
is skirting very near to mere decorative doodling,
rather intricately pretty,
and yet it is clearly nothing to do with decoration
because it's too obsessed.''
[Tate Gallery Guide, 1990, p.232]
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