Ariel Soule' Biography
Born in Buenos Aires in 1952. In 1967 he moved with his family to Barcelona, Spain where he attended the Massana de Arte School. In the early seventies Ariel Soulé settled in Milan, where he completed his studies at the Brera Academy. In this period it was the figure that was the center of Soulé's aesthetic research: a figure that, despite subsequent developments, remained predominant in his work. In 1975 he held his first exhibition at the Eidos Gallery in Milan, presented by the painter Kari Piattner, who saw a certain affinity with his narrative approach in Soulé's work. After several personal and collective exhibitions, in 1984 he presented a multidisciplinary show-performance, War and Peace, in which painting, music, theater merged in a representation in via Montenapoleone and via Bagutta in Milan. Over time, however, the human figure becomes increasingly rarefied, until it disappears. Testimony of this significant passage, which will bring Soulè's work to a dimension of abstract symbolism, is the 1987 solo exhibition, "The Spirit of Time", at the Rotta gallery in Genoa. In 1989 in New York he had the opportunity to continue his artistic research. The "Lillas Pastià" series belongs to this period. In 1992 the Civic Gallery of Modern Art of Ferrara organized a large monographic exhibition of Ariel Soulé, "Paradigma", presented by Renato Barilli at the Palazzo dei Diamanti. In 1994 the Museum of Modern Art of Gallarate presented an anthology dedicated to the period 1973/1993 curated by Tommaso Trini. Since 2002 he began a path of creative sharing with the sculptor Simon Toparovsky.
