The Fall of Modernism

In The Fall of Modernism, a guitar unfolds through successive positions in space. Its contour lines describe both the boundaries of the instrument and the passage of its fall, forming a topography of movement. Each outline holds a moment within a continuous descent. Seen together, these moments give duration a spatial form.

The guitar was a recurring subject in Cubism, where its familiar structure became a means of reconsidering volume and perspective. The falling guitar becomes a symbol of an end to modernism. Its descent gives physical form to the title, holding the fall of an artistic movement in stasis.