Gyula Várnai’s object is a scale model of the artist’s installation of the same title, exhibited at the current Venice Biennale. The piece depicting a slice of the former ferris wheel of 12 cabins, also represented in other works by Várnai, is part of a project that explores the utopias of previous ages and invokes the science of futurology: in this context, referring to a 5-minute slice from the dial of the clock, it is a symbol of prognostications about the future of humanity. Taking the work out of this context, however, a more general scope of interpretation opens up, wherein besides the physical and philosophical approach to time, cyclicity as a feature of countless processes taking place on micro- and macro-levels – from the cellular functioning of the body to the course of history – is also thematised.
