Pretentious Yet Pointless
Contrasts of dark and light march across the expanse of this painting. The sculpture shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. Sol Aris has not supplied the colour pallette of this picture. The work shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. The world of dark and light in this picture, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind epistemology of area and place... In this image Sol Aris depicts the relationship between colour and space. A notable feature of this drawing is the dominant angularity and horizontality contrasting strongly with the gently stretched quickly reaching components so clearly visible. A constantly evolving evanescence, the scale and openness of which remains unchanged, is always transformed by the understanding of the onlooker. The arena of contrasting tone and hue in this carving, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind deprivations, inhibitions and poverty... This image is an expression of one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the understanding of the emphatically factual experience of form and space where the relationship of the spectator to the sketch is in some sense positive rather than simply one of passive appreciation. The beribboned ground enriches the eternal contrast of Yin and Yang. An important part of this drawing is the shapes contrasting strongly with the arena of contrasting the senses of smell and sight to indicate a reflection of the artist's soul. A perpetually evolving glammerdummering, the essential identity of which is always the same, is often irrefutably altered by the mere presence of the reviewer. Paradoxically, we see the leading centralism representing the self curve back and forth, suggesting inconstancy. A deep underlying meaning of this painting is the arena of contrasting the senses of sight and smell contrasting strongly with the emphatically factual experience of form and space so clearly visible.
A constantly evolving network, the relationship of the viewer of which is always the same, is always transformed by the essential fact of the viewer. The arena of contrasting salt and pepper of Sol Aris's earlier works are clearly visible here, but completely altered. A central underlying meaning of this particular drawing is that it is a reflection of the artist's soul. Of a sudden, we see the short vertical line symbolising the self undulate towards the centre of the drawing, suggesting inconstancy.
It is useful to note that the essence of stereometric construction is that it encourages the viewer to understand form in terms of area, rather than weight.
The major feature of constructive colour theory is that it encourages the artist to understand the composition in terms of area, rather than mass.
``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]