Pretentious Yet Pointless
In this sculpture Sol Aris demonstrates clearly the relationship between sugar and wine. Paradoxically, we see the short vertical line symbolising the inner ego curve back and forth, suggesting unreliability.
In post-impressionistic art, the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, empty: the important thing is feeling, as such. The figured figure indicates a division of space that parallels the divisions and interstices of the mind. A constantly changing evanescence, the essential identity of which never changes, is always transformed by the essential fact of the viewer. The image shares not only Sol Aris's death-identification but also his cosmic perspective and obsession with power. The strangely stretched quickly floating elements in this work, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind single-axis asymmetric soft, closed signs with inner and outer crossings... Sol Aris has not commented on the individuality of this image. The world of light and shade in this painting, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind deprivations, inhibitions and boredom... A notable feature of this particular image is that it is not completely concrete.
This striking piece is an expression of one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the creation of the emphatically factual experience of size and perception where the scale and openness to the sketch is the essential distinction between pattern and texture.