Adam Cvijanovic
Adam Cvijanovic’s invented technique of painting directly on Tyvek (the DuPont material used in FedEx envelopes as well as in construction of new homes) opens up the possibility of making painting architectural again by adhering the paper directly to the wall.
Cvijanovic’s installation for MADE UP rests upon classical mnemonics, later developed by the Renaissance thinker Giulio Camillo Delminio whose L’Idea del Theatro (1550) described an encyclopaedic memory aid in the form of an amphitheatre with hundreds of images arranged over seven tiers. This approach maintains that places, real or schematic, may be used as an ordering framework to trigger memories of extended concepts too complex for the capabilities of normal recollection. A sequence of rooms, for example, may each be given an emblem to represent a passage of a text that, when viewed in the appropriate order, would facilitate the recollection of the complete construct. A similar system was employed by Giordano Bruno, and may have formed a part of Shakespeare’s original Globe theatre.
