Moebius
“ Solitude has the great advantage that you stop running away from yourself.”
(Marcel Proust)
120x200 cm, acrylic on canvas, 2018
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This work also begins with the inner urge to find one's own but still unknown path through the twists and turns of abandoned areas. It is a story about getting lost and finding something again: dealing with the mountains is often similar to dealing with death. An idea from which the unbroken inspiration of the Totes Gebirge also draws.
With this work, Giovi makes memory tangible and moves away from usual working methods, materials or techniques.
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Classic painting is complemented by the instruments of chrome spray cans, ornamental patterns and plaster. The artist also goes through a learning process during the years-long creative process. Finding the very path that essentially gives these works their foundation. So much for giving up an escape, consciously forgetting the paths of the past, and remembering the twists and turns of one's own life path. “You can’t go very far in a straight line,” said a very well-known Little Prince.
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Formally, Möbius moves between constructed order and organic flow. On the left, something begins that almost seems constructed: steps, rays, a rhythmic field. Then the movement shifts. White breaks open like water, like sailcloth in the wind, like a moment when control is no longer sufficient. Dark arcs, loops, and ribbon-like forms interlock, contract, dissolve again, forming a loop that knows no end. This is precisely the core of the work: not a linear resolution, but feedback. Not an escape from chaos, but a different path through it.
For me, this work is closely connected to the sea—not as a motif, but as a model for thinking. Weather, drift, friction, holding course, changing course. The loop doesn't end, but you can learn to navigate it differently. Less resistance. More direction. This logic aligns very clearly with your artistic field: elements, friction, and course changes as a method, not merely as aesthetics.
Möbius marks precisely this point: the moment when something tips over, intertwines, returns, and precisely through this, new movement becomes possible.
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