Sol Halabi

Mentira la Mentira Florentina y Pajaro Azul Mentira la Verdad

As Licentiate of Painting from the National University of Cordoba in Argentina, and Professor of Fine Arts at the Figueroa Alcorta School of Arts in Cordoba, Argentina, Sol Halabi believes that there are no constraints from the classical sources, the main inspiration of her works. Although her style is clearly that of figuration, the representation of the subjective is the distinguishing feature of her works.

"Art abides by other laws, not by reason. When you go with the flow, many things inside you come to the surface, things you have never thought about but that become part of the painting. But when I want to see what they are all about, where they go, what they are, what they refer to, since you never paint just for the sake of it, I think they are related to a particular event that I remember since I was six years old.

When I want to ponder, things get complicated and when you just let it go things come up and it’s very similar to taking it easy amidst chaos. It is not about showing specific life moments. Nevertheless, some of these faces show a certain placidity that can only be done by means of a deep inner peace and others struggle with the accompanying darkness. It does not mean that I decided to paint happiness or a sad moment consciously. They are things that only the subconscious is capable of.

I like reading and I love Jung (Carl Gustav). When referring to the power of the unconscious he says that the unconscious is not limited to a person in particular, it is not limited to your personal history. This way to see things makes a lot of sense to the painter because if things were not this way nobody would feel anything for my paintings, they would have nothing to do with others. Nobody wants anything as a mere decoration. It’s because it conveys something and that what it conveys is not what I think, it conveys what the spectator feels in that moment. The artist’s personal subconscious is based on the collective subconscious which is what makes us humans".Sol Halabi

“Paradigmatic protagonist of the tension tradition-modernity that crosses contemporary art.” Cabeza de Vaca 2005 Awards, Centro Cultura España Córdoba. Argentina