Pretentious Yet Pointless
This work is an expression of one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the creation of the impersonal forms and industrial colours where the essential identity to the piece is the eternal interaction of Yin and Yang. The shapes of Sol Aris's previous works are clearly visible here, but transformed. Paradoxically, we see the diagonal axis for the self undulate towards the centre of the sculpture, suggesting inconstancy. A perpetually changing glammerdummering, the outstanding aesthetic sensibility of which never changes, is always unrecognizably altered by the essential fact of the viewer. A particularly contentious aspect of this picture is the arena of contrasting tone and hue contrasting strongly with the dominant angularity and horizontality so clearly visible. Paradoxically, we see the short vertical line symbolising power and authority undulate towards the centre of the image, suggesting unreliability. Such forms, rapidly moving and disconcerting, create disarmingly intenste feelings. A constantly changing glammerdümmering, the outstanding aesthetic sensibility of which is always the same, is often transformed by the mere presence of the onlooker. Contrasts of honey and white wine march across the vastness of the image. In this work Sol Aris delineates the relationship between the senses of smell and taste. Contrasts of sugar and wine emphasise the emptiness of this work. The shapes in this painting, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind contrast of the senses of sight and smell...
``This painting exemplifies the collage-like arrangements by which surrealist painters brought together apparently unrelated objects to create a striking visual poetry, intended to reflect the pattern of unconscious thought.''
[Tate Gallery Guide, 1990, p.162]