Artist Richard Venlet constructed a circular scenography for the exhibition “Cabinet d’Amis” at Thurn & Taxis, a celebration of the legacy of curator Jan Hoet. The result was a magnificent 360° experience which, however, did not immediately reveal all its secrets.

In Book I of “Elements”, Euclid describes the circle as “a plane figure bounded by a single line, such that all straight lines drawn from any point within the circle to the boundary line are equal. The boundary line is called the circumference and the point, the centre.’ Pythagoras later refers to the circle as the most complete geometric form, which contains everything and from which everything originates. It has no beginning and no end; there is a centre, which in turn is the filled-in, smallest possible circle.