Sonja Soller

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

(Leo Tolstoy)

Sonja Soller's artistic expressiveness flows onto the canvas with an irrepressible audacity, ready to catalyze the mind on a whole of great impact. The artist has concentrated on acrylic mixing techniques, until she reaches a remarkable level of mastery, and distinguishable from her first glance. Abstract Nature - the work that we can admire during the Artoxic international exhibitionis a particularly successful example of abstract art, which involves the observer in a sumptuous chromatic dance, based on the juxtaposition of warm and cold colours. But not only. The complexity of the work is highlighted in a skilful layering of acrylics, which are arranged on multiple levels, achieving the illusion of three-dimensionality. However, Sonja also succeeds in a much more difficult attempt, that of making the work pulsating with life, and capable of transmitting a plurality of sensations through the alternation of colors and lines. It is therefore possible to recognize an admirable parallelism between technique and the possibility of speaking to the observer, and of directing him to grasp his own interpretation. The layers of color thus become a metaphor for the multiplicity of emotions and thoughts that flow one over the other, leaving behind an echo of past sensations and an omen of future ones. The viewer can only be guided by his own interiority, and see a mirror of it on the canvas. Sonja Soller encloses in Abstract Nature the infinite corollary of human passions, making the work a multifaceted portrait in which anyonein any emotional state - can recognize himself.

Art Curator Chiara Rizzatti