ADAM CVIJANOVIC
The Fall
April 25 - May 30, 2015
"Memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies,
and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality, its heterogeneous but usually coherent version
of events; and no sane human being ever trusts someone else's version more than his own."
-Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
A November walk in a New Jersey forest by an artist and his wife leads to a memory of their earlier
trip to Capri. Two places, two people, a story suspended between two recollections. In psychology,
memory is the process in which information is encoded, stored and retrieved. As a painter how do you
depict a memory, how do you share it, how do you construct it visually? Not simply illustrate it, but capture
the fractured, transient, subjective moment shared with another person who may remember it differently.
Best known for his monumental wall installations, here, in The Fall, the artist Adam Cvijanovic has started with an
80-foot gallery wrapping wall piece, but then he has added dozens of smaller paintings ranging in size from a few inches to several
inchesacross. In The Fall these images flow with an erratic rhythm from the empty walls to cover parts of the larger mural,
weaving in and out of the same recollection, constantly re-depicting the same moment, like the light held by the shards of a broken mirror,
each image describing in paint a slightly different perspective of the remembered moment.
A short story of that day, that walk, that time,
written and narrated by Cvijanovic is available via audio guide or downloadable sound file. It provides a matrix to decode the images in the paintings,
put the puzzle together, trace the macro and micro elements to re-present and re-invigorate a moment gone forever, yet captured through paint and voice.
"Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were."
-Marcel Proust
This will be Adam Cvijanovic second show at Postmasters. A large survey exhibition of his works,
American Montage, opened May 15 at the Kempner Museum of Art in Kansas City Missouri.
ADAM CVIJANOVIC
The Fall
The Fall: The Sourlands (left);
View of the Sorentine Peninsula and the Bay of Naples
from the Villa Jovius (center);
Slave Quarters of the Ruined Palace (right)
(installation detail)
2015
installation view with audio
running time: 3:50 minutes
as installed 14 x 80 feet
ADAM CVIJANOVIC
The Fall
The Fall: The Sourlands (left);
View of the Sorentine Peninsula and the Bay of Naples
from the Villa Jovius (center);
Slave Quarters of the Ruined Palace (right)
(installation detail)
2015
installation view with audio
running time: 3:50 minutes
as installed 14 x 80 feet
ADAM CVIJANOVIC
The Fall
She Asked Me to Stand in the Doorway (left)
Tiberius Caesar Divi Augusti Fillius Augustus
(center);
Roman Pines (right)
(installation detail)
2015
installation view with audio
running time: 3:50 minutes
as installed 14 x 80 feet
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Roman Pines
2015
2 panels
oil on canvas
32 x 31 inches
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Tiberius Caesar Divi Augusti Fillius Augustus
2015
2 panels
oil on linen and oil on
canvas
40 x 12 inches
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A conversation
2015
12 panels
oil on plexiglass
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A conversation
(installation detail)
2015
12 panels
oil on plexiglass
ADAM CVIJANOVIC
A conversation
(installation detail)
2015
12 panels
oil on plexiglass
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Hotel Pazziella
2015
oil on canvas
16 x 17 inches
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The Church
2015
oil on canvas
11 x 14 inches
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The Room
2015
oil on canvas
24 x 26 inches
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She Slept
2015
oil on canvas
20 x 26 inches
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3:30 in the Afternoon
2015
oil on canvas
16 x 26 inches
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Fallen Tree
2015
oil on plexiglass
15 x 65 inches
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Villa Jovius
2015
oil on plexiglass
11 x 25 inches
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Edge of a Cliff
2015
oil on plexiglass
8.5 x 14 inches
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She Paused on the Trail
2015
oil on plexiglass
7 x 13 inches
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Black Pine
2015
oil on plexiglass
7.5 x 12 inches
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Four Views of the Woods
2015
oil on plexiglass
14.5 x 26.5 inches
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View Towards Anacapri From the Funicular Terrace
2015
15 panels
oil on each panel
approx. 6 x 14 feet
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View Towards Anacapri From the Funicular Terrace (detail)
2015
15 panels
oil on each
panel
approx. 6 x 14 feet
ADAM CVIJANOVIC
View Towards Anacapri From the Funicular Terrace (detail)
2015
15 panels
oil on each
panel
approx. 6 x 14 feet
ADAM CVIJANOVIC
View Towards Anacapri From the Funicular Terrace (detail)
2015
15 panels
oil on each
panel
approx. 6 x 14 feet