- Who is the artist?
Tomás García Asensio (Huelva, Spain, 1940) is a renowned Spanish multidisciplinary artist. Over a career spanning fifty years, he has developed a distinctive abstract geometric language, consistently exploring themes of rhythm and movement. His work is featured in major museums and is part of the permanent collection at the Reina Sofía National Museum of Contemporary Art in Madrid, Spain.
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What is the purpose of the installation?
This piece is not a commissioned work for the Colnago showroom but belongs to Colnago’s private contemporary art collection.
This series focuses on circular motion, resonating strongly with the spirit of cycling. It offers a poetic interpretation of centrifugal movement, greeting visitors with a dynamic sense of speed, motion, and the freedom associated with bicycles.
- Is there an overarching meaning to the work?
The series aims to capture the sensations of speed, rotation, movement, and force through a geometric lens.
- Are there individual interpretations for each piece?
No, the series is meant to be understood as a whole, with its twenty pieces representing various phases of motion, from the starting point to maximum velocity and momentum.
- Is there a connection to the cycling world?
While bicycles were not the original inspiration, the shared concepts of speed, rotation, and movement strongly align with the essence of cycling.
