Pretentious Yet Pointless
The beribboned ground indicates the eternal interaction of Yin and Yang. The dominant angularity and horizontality in this image, despite appearing disarmingly simple at first glance, create in the mind deprivations, inhibitions and hardship... This work is quintessential to one of the central preoccupations of Sol Aris's art, the understanding of the emphatically factual experience of the senses of sight and touch where the extraordinarily refined aesthetic sensibility to the work is an image of the process of creation.
``The dialogue created by the comination of textures, colours, and dimensions evokes nature in its pure, controlled, yet fanciful expression. Sensorial expreiences and organic abstractions represent man's drive for interpreting reality and our mental processes. In a seemingly chaotic world, the artist struggles to find inner serenity and to convey it in his work. Each piece becomes a unique instance of wholeness within the labyringht of life.'' [describing Alex Garcin, Untitled 2004]