I am fascinated by mazes. I love the Greek mythology. And I like trying to understand the symbols that hide those old stories that tried to order the world, to bring light to the chaos of existence.
Yesterday I visited the exhibition at the CCCB, " For mazes" and I left convinced that the myths are much more current than sometimes thought.
The myth of the labyrinth is the story of the hero Theseus who enters it to defeat the beast that inhabits: the Minotaur, a strange being half man and half bull. To carry out its mission, Theseus has the help of Ariadne, which gives the famous line that will show the way back out of the maze.
Yesterday I visited the exhibition at the CCCB, " For mazes" and I left convinced that the myths are much more current than sometimes thought.
The myth of the labyrinth is the story of the hero Theseus who enters it to defeat the beast that inhabits: the Minotaur, a strange being half man and half bull. To carry out its mission, Theseus has the help of Ariadne, which gives the famous line that will show the way back out of the maze.
In the fifteenth century, the physicist Giovanni Fontana said: "In the short treatise on labyrinths have designed many as five types of figures of my invention, different, where there are dead ends, digressions, losses, windings, confusions, fears, bypasses, detours, turns back and conversions, that fool who enters. " And so, the maze becomes, as suggested by the famous philosopher Mircea Eliade a symbol of life itself.
Life is thus a maze. Walk-sometimes blindly, sometimes filled with light, in order to reach the center, to that sacred place - why not - where we expect the Minotaur, the beast is not nothing but a part of ourselves. Theseus represents light, the hero, the self more noble and pure. The Minotaur, by contrast, is the dark side, the brutality, the vilest matter - is the ego? -. The hero must enter the maze and must reach the center where the toughest fight: the fight against himself.
Theseus is victorious in battle but their ordeal does not end there, you must re-surfacing and for She needed a thread, the thread of Ariadne, the thread of Love Without Love, Theseus is at risk of being walking around the maze that has seen her win, to bind, caught between pride and complacency.
A maze, your life. A hero, you me light. A beast, you me dark. A fight, yours. A thread, your salvation. A heroine, your love And finally ... LIGHT.
Life is thus a maze. Walk-sometimes blindly, sometimes filled with light, in order to reach the center, to that sacred place - why not - where we expect the Minotaur, the beast is not nothing but a part of ourselves. Theseus represents light, the hero, the self more noble and pure. The Minotaur, by contrast, is the dark side, the brutality, the vilest matter - is the ego? -. The hero must enter the maze and must reach the center where the toughest fight: the fight against himself.
Theseus is victorious in battle but their ordeal does not end there, you must re-surfacing and for She needed a thread, the thread of Ariadne, the thread of Love Without Love, Theseus is at risk of being walking around the maze that has seen her win, to bind, caught between pride and complacency.
A maze, your life. A hero, you me light. A beast, you me dark. A fight, yours. A thread, your salvation. A heroine, your love And finally ... LIGHT.
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