RIBBONS
The figurative art has always been full of symbolisms sometimes hidden and mysterious, sometimes esoteric, sometimes linked to something that the artist could not represent openly…
Symbol, a word that derives from the Greek verb symballo, “to reunite” two parts of an object and this reunion allows the recognition of a commonality between the owners of each half and in this it joins the theory of Plato’s hermaphrodites, but the whole that is created still retains, even in the new identity, the trace of the difference of a sense that does not close.
Symbol: the collation of visible forms in order to show invisible things.
Ribbons, tape, gala, or cartouche have a positive value that alludes to the blossoming and eternity connected to perfection and immortality…
The knotted ribbon assumes positive values, as very often its shape is reminiscent of a flower and therefore indicates the blossoming in the beneficial sense of opening. Very unique and interesting at the same time from the meaning point of view is the circular shape of the ribbon that leads to a real reference to perfection and immortality based on a conception of time perceived as infinite that alludes metaphorically to eternity and God.
Examples are the symbol of Moebius by Max Bill.
The ribbon as previously described suggests an idea of bond, of union, but the ribbons are tied, loose, floating, tangled but despite having complicated paths they eventually come out free from the rarefied image of a sky or a black background, they get knotted they melt, fly … looking for the immortality of a perfect circle …