‘Double Ring’, 2000, Frans de Wit Sculpture Garden, Singelpark, Leiden
Making a two-unit has interested Frans de Wit since the 1970s.
De Wit arranges a large and small ring adjacent to each other in “Double Ring”. The attention is directed to the exploration and discovery of form by mirroring their variants and reflecting their symbolic meaning in their unity.
The “Double Ring” is part of a series of ring sculptures he created, also for public spaces, from 1995 to 2001. Since prehistoric times the circle has been a reference to unity, wholeness and infinity, reflecting the roundness of the sun, moon and earth. It evolved from then on in a symbol for eternal loyalty. The point-circle patterns are among the oldest decorations found in antiquity, etched into wood, stone or bone. Mysterious circular stone monuments have been found in various places in the world.
De Wit uses these primal archetypes for their ability to convey a powerful language without words. Frans de Wit builds his oeuvre around endless variations of a principle that defines an infinite diverse reality in form and space.