Pretentious Yet Pointless
The arena of contrasting tone and hue of Sol Aris's previous works are clearly visible here, but transformed.
Sol Aris has not commented on the individuality of this carving. Sol Aris has not completed the meaning of this work. The gently stretched upward reaching components of Sol Aris's previous works are clearly visible here, but transformed. The artist uses a rectangular grid to shape the colours, which thus float free. Such forms, intensely modulated, create disarmingly intenste sensations. A notable feature of this image is the impersonal forms and industrial colours contrasting strongly with the world of summer and autumn so clearly visible.
The artist avoids a rectangular grid to contain the colours, which thus float free.
``Paradoxically, this work, which has such an assertive and fascinating physical presence, simultaneously undermines its physical reality by the way in which it reflects, and thus elides or blends with, its surroundings.''
[Tate Gallery Guide, 1990, p.262]