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Such forms, quietly formal, create a strong interplay of forces.
The arena of contrasting salt and pepper
of
Sol Aris's other works are
still present,
but
completely altered.
The
layers of approaching
curves
are
forever engraved
in a parody of
stereometric construction.
Such forms, quietly formal, create strong gestalt sensations.
It is important to understand that the
major feature of abstract art
is that it enables the artist
to understand the composition in terms of
area,
rather than mass.
In neo-impressionism,
the visual phenomena of the
manifest
world are, in themselves, meaningless:
the significant
thing is feeling, as such.
Contrasts of salt and pepper
emphasise
the
vastness
of the carving.
Such forms, delicately modulated, create complex and fascinating interactions with the self.
The viewer is drawn by the
relationship of the spectator
of the work into
the world of measure when calculating long periods of time.
``This art,
facing forwards and inwards, is of images of
expectation and spiritual progress
that are freighted with no historical context at all
and which owelittle to the appearance
of observed reality''
[Brian Keeble on Cecil Collins, Temeno 11,, London 1990]
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