Argentina: Sur Sola, a talented painter from another planet.

In this article, the author admires his best friend. What fascinates Borges most about Sursola is that he can connect reality in a game-like, intelligent and artistic way.

Xul Solar is an Argentine painter, sculptor, writer, inventor of fictional language, and a wizard who is proficient in astrology, mysterious science, language and myth. During his travel in Europe, influenced by the avant-garde, he gradually formed a very unique personal style, which was both original and integrated with various elements of different trends. His works are like an alien dream world, concise and elegant, with exceptionally rich cultural connotations.

Sur Sola, formerly known as Oscar Augustine Alexander Schulz solari, was born in san fernando, Buenos Aires, Argentina from 65438 to 0887, where his father was German and his mother was Italian, and spent his childhood. At the age of seven, Sur contracted typhoid fever. The following year, his only sister got typhoid fever and died. During primary school, Sur began to study French, Italian and Latin in a French school. Later I transferred to an English school. He also learned the violin, but he stopped after a riding accident.

During the period of 190 1-1909, due to his father's job transfer, the whole family moved to Buenos Aires, the capital, where Sur went to middle school. His father is an engineer and works as a technical director in the national prison. Sur also participated in the construction of the prison and helped build the wall. /kloc-entered the university to study architecture at the age of 0/8, and dropped out two years later.

1906 19-year-old Sur bought his first piano. Music is a very important part of Sur's family life. Grandfather Alexander Schultz is a composer, and father Emilio can play the guzheng. Sur has been exposed to music since he was a child and laid a solid foundation for music. He likes Wagner and Bach's music, especially operas and symphonies. Sur is proficient in music theory. A few years later, he improved the music score system to make it easier to learn and play, and began to transform several musical instruments belonging to his wife Lida, including piano, reed organ and piano. Sur's paintings have a series of direct musical themes, such as sacred dance, melody barrier, quintet, Bach choir, Chopin's improvisation and so on.

19 12 years, sur decided to travel to Europe, and the first stop was London. He stayed in Europe for 12 years and lived in different cities: Paris, Turin, Genoa, Marseille, Zoari, Florence, Milan and Munich. In Italy, he became friends with the Argentine painter Pettoruti. According to Pettoruti, at that time (19 16) Sur had mastered watercolor painting skills well. At the same time, Sur also knows religion and Hermes philosophy very well.

1920, Sur began to use "Sursola" as his signature, and held his first exhibition in Milan with the sculptor Arturo Martini.

In the exhibition, Sur's oil paintings show the new trends of European art, especially expressionism and fauvism, and embody the mysterious spirit through imaginative symbols. In addition, he also showed his watercolors, vines influenced by the Art Nouveau movement and geometric figures that made his works almost abstract. Sur has always maintained his fantastic characteristics in his paintings, which is the distinctive feature of all his paintings.

Sur pursues the harmony of the universe and is committed to improving the communication between human beings. He spent many years creating languages and invented "Neo-Rio Oro", a modified and mixed language of Spanish and Portuguese. It also created a universal language called Pan Language. Borges' short story Tron, Ukbar, Obis Te Tius was inspired from here.

Sur also has a series of other inventions, such as "pan-game", an infinitely complicated chess; Improved tarot cards; There is also a piano with texture and color keys. Different textures and colors correspond to different sounds. He designed them according to the principle of astrology.

Around 1953, Sur painted watercolors in the Tigray Delta around Buyi. From 65438 to 0958, he created a set of Painting Calligraphy.

Since 1924 returned to Argentina, Sur has only held several exhibitions. In that year, he participated in the "Freedom Salon" held in Vimko Gallery, and established close contact with the avant-garde intellectuals who edited Martin Fiero magazine and became partners. Since then, Sur has established friendship with Argentine poet Oliver Girondo and Macedonian writer Fernandez, especially with Borges.

1929, Sur held his first solo exhibition in Buyi nationality in the Association of Friends of Art. 1940, he held another art exhibition in the same place. Later, exhibitions were held in different galleries: 1949, Samos Gallery; 195 1 year, Ji Weng Gallery; 1953, Van Lille Gallery. In addition, he also participated in collective exhibitions in museums and art halls.

Sur died in Tigray, Buenos Aires province on 1963. In the same year, Borges held a commemorative exhibition at the National Gallery of Argentina. 1990, the museum of Sulsola's former residence was opened, and most of Sulsola's works were exhibited there.

References:

Xuri Solar Energy Museum

Wikipedia: Rising Sun Solar Energy

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