Greg de Cuir Jr is an independent curator, writer and translator who lives and works in Belgrade, Serbia.
Greg de Cuir Jr
Interview
Yowshien Kuo
Yowshien Kuo was educated in both the U.S. and Taiwan and completed his MFA in 2014 from Fontbonne University. Kuo is an active exhibiting artist living and working in St. Louis, Missouri. He is a co-owner of the artist run space, Monaco and has recently exhibited with Superdutchess in NYC, LVL3 Chicago, Terrain Exhibitions, Granite City’s Art and Design District, Projects Plus in St. Louis, and Counterpublic with The Luminary in St. Louis. Yowshien has been an artist in residence with Paul ArtSpace in St. Louis, a recipient of Regional Arts Commission support grant and Critical Mass for the Visual Arts award. His work has appeared in publications that include New American Paintings and The Seen Journal Chicago. He currently holds teaching appointments at St. Louis Community College at Meramec, Washington University’s – University College, and Maryville University in St. Louis.The books mentioned in the interview are Hitler’s American Model by James Q. Whitman and Cannery Row by John Steinbeck.
Ljiljana Radošević
Ljiljana Radošević was born in Belgrade (Serbia) in 1978. She got MA in Art History at the University of Belgrade by defending thesis about appearance and development of graffiti in Belgrade 1996-2005. She started her research in the year 2000 and continued to document art works and interview graffiti and street artists until present day. During her second MA studies in Management in Culture she had an opportunity to do her internship at the most important comics festival in Europe FIBD Angouleme and consequently wrote her thesis about it. After working in the field for several years she started her PH.D. studies at the University of Jyvaskyla (Finland) with the thesis under the title Understanding Street Art; A Study of European Street Art. At the moment she is in the final stages of writing but has managed to initiate in collaboration with her colleagues projects such as www.streetartwalksbelgrade.com and www.urbanheritagehub.com (not active yet).The books mentioned in the interview are The Dresden Files, and the authors Ursula K. LaGuin and Andrzej Sapkowski. As well as the series called Urban Shaman.
Katarina Radovic
Katarina Radovic was born in Belgrade, Serbia. She studied History of Art at the University of Sussex in Brighton, UK in the 1990’s and acquired the BA Degree in Photography from the Academy of Arts ‘BK’ in Belgrade, Serbia, in 2006.
As a free-lance artist she has participated in a number of solo and collective exhibitions and festivals in Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Hungary, Austria, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Spain, The Netherlands, France, Egypt, Japan, Senegal, USA, Israel, etc.
She received the Kultur Kontakt artist-in-residence grant in Vienna, Austria, in 2007; the European Cultural Foundation (ECF) grant in 2009 for the project Until Death Do Us Part; and the artist-in-residence grant in Malta by the Fondazzjoni Kreattività in 2019 for the project Palettes.
Her works are in: the Photography Collection EROSION (Lithuania), the TELENOR Collection of Contemporary Art (Serbia), the Museum of the City of Belgrade, the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Zagreb (Croatia), the Museum of African Art in Belgrade and the Imago Mundi BENETTON Collection (Italy).
She moves fluidly across photographic fields, trying to trace the link between reality and fiction, the real world and the socially and culturally originated visions of reality. Her photographic work consists of unique researches into identity, (self)-presentation, human relationships and communication, as well as cultural differences, and is often permeated with theatre and humour. She is also interested in design, publishing, translation and curatorial work.
The two major publications of her works are: Until Death Do Us Part, self-published monograph, Belgrade, 2011 and When You’ve Stopped Combing Me, I’ll Stop Hating You, Museum of African Art, Belgrade, 2016.
Elise Ferguson
Influenced by color theory, design history and international traditions in geometric abstraction, I grew up in a household where my mother was a women’s clothing designer and my stepfather was an architect. These two very personal visions – my mother’s love of textiles and construction and my stepfather’s introduction to the classics of modernism – had a deep impact on my development. Their influences percolated up in intriguing ways. A key point in my work is color as communication – an associative, subjective relationship, based on a lifetime of visual memories. Rejecting the notion of abstract art as a “universal language” – my work hints at pictographic signs, logo-grams, alphabetic scripts and cuneiform writing. I am interested in the highly subjective responses to composition and color.
During the past two years, I have begun to expand the parameters of my work to include hand-printed textile installations, outdoor projects and sculptural works. Having long employed printmaking techniques in my paintings and frequently making reference to textiles and textile design, my linen installations bring together several of the themes in my work into a single piece. With the sculptural work, I have begun working with vitreous enamel on steel. This particular material combination is fantastic for its luminous glass-like quality, intense colors and its extreme durability.
Elise Ferguson lives in Brooklyn and works in Queens, NY.
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