Federico Brugnami | 24 Oct 2026 | Rome Art Week

Federico Brugnami Open Studio

Cycles : Two visions of existence: the Eastern vision, The Enso, in which the circle represents the continuous flow of life and the Western vision, based on linear progression and the pursuit of a goal.

Federico Brugnami Open Studio

Cycles emerges from the encounter between two visions of existence: the Eastern vision, evoked by the Enso, in which the circle represents the continuous flow of life, and the Western vision, based on linear progression and the pursuit of a goal.

 

The bicycle becomes a synthesis of these two dimensions: its wheels move in circles, yet from this cyclical motion comes linear progression. The cycle becomes direction, movement becomes freedom, and dynamic balance becomes peace.

 

The wheel also introduces a cosmic dimension. As in planetariums, the movement of celestial bodies emerges from the relationship between a center and a circumference. The center represents the invisible origin — the void, God, thought — while the circumference represents the manifested world. The spokes connect these two dimensions.

 

The Enso, the bicycle and the planetarium thus become expressions of the same idea: the world exists and sustains itself through movement. From this comes the image of God as the “Great Cyclist”: a dynamic principle that, by pedaling, keeps the world in balance and sets it in motion.

 

Peace, therefore, is not the absence of movement, but the harmony of movement itself. A universe that turns, a bicycle that moves forward, a cycle that endlessly begins again.

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