Vuk Vidor. Selektor, Paris, Éditions Lord Byron, 2025
First edition
Special edition of 50 numbered copies from I to L, accompanied by an original work by the artist in a slipcase
Hardcover, 23 x 29 cm, 240 pages
Bilingual edition: French, English
Translation by John Barrett
ISBN: 978-2-488446-07-5
The book Vuk Vidor. Selektor is the first monograph devoted to the Franco-Serbian artist and brings to a close his four-year cycle of exhibitions held at the Belgrade City Museum from 2019 to 2023. It includes texts by Julie Chaizemartin, Richard Leydier, and Uroš Đurić, as well as a conversation with Harland Miller.
“His work is an enigma to me, as I have never quite known how to classify it precisely. Vidor has indeed always played on several fronts, so to speak: he is both conceptual—the Art History works attest to this—and formal, as evidenced by his painting and drawing. He continually oscillates between these two approaches, and while this dualism does not facilitate immediate understanding and leaves us somewhat adrift, there is every reason to believe that the artist resorts to one or the other of these languages depending on the circumstances.” (Excerpt from the text by Richard Leydier)
Vuk Vidor is a Franco-Serbian artist born in 1965 in Belgrade, Serbia. He graduated in 1990 from the École d’architecture Paris. A multifaceted artist—simultaneously a painter, sculptor, and conceptual artist—Vidor has been exhibiting internationally for over 30 years. Among the galleries that have exhibited and represented his work are Galerie Valerie Cueto in Paris and New York, Galerie Mazel in Brussels, Gallery Poulsen in Copenhagen, Galerie Magda Danysz in Shanghai, as well as the galleries Novembar, Arte, SKC, and X Vitamin in Belgrade. Numerous institutions have presented his work, including MOCO Montpellier Contemporain, the Belgrade City Museum, La Maison Rouge in Paris, the Fernet Branca Foundation in Saint-Louis, the Irish Museum of Contemporary Art in Dublin, the Musée d’Art Moderne in Saint-Étienne, and the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon.
Julie Chaizemartin is a journalist and art critic. She holds degrees from the École du Louvre and Paris I Sorbonne in Art History and Law. Having contributed to L’Express, L’Officiel de l’Art, and the Huffington Post, she has been writing since 2018 for Le Quotidien de l’Art and Art Press, where she has developed a strong interest in art criticism. In 2016, she founded Art District Radio, a web radio dedicated to art and jazz. She is also the author of the art books Ferrara: Jewel of the Italian Renaissance, Philippe Cognée, and Oda Jaune, Wonderlust.
Born in 1964, Uroš Đurić is a Serbian conceptual artist, actor, and painter based in Belgrade. He studied art history at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Belgrade, followed by painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts in the same city. From 1989 onward, Đurić became an active figure on the Belgrade art scene by founding, together with Stevan Markuš, the (anti-)autonomist movement known as Autonomist, whose Manifesto of Autonomism they published in 1994. During the 1990s, he appeared frequently in feature films. Founder of the Remont gallery and the eponymous art journal, he worked from 1992 to 2010 with the Belgrade radio station B92.
Richard Leydier is an exhibition curator, art critic, former editor-in-chief of Art Press, and editor-in-chief of the journal AVC. In this capacity, he has written a large number of monographs devoted to artists as diverse as David Altmejd, Bernhard Martin, Georg Baselitz, Vanessa Beecroft, and Ernesto Neto. He is the author of several books on Ronan Barrot, Marc Desgrandchamps, Jean Messagier, Jonathan Meese, and François Rouan, among many others.
Born in 1964, Harland Miller is a British writer and artist. After living and working in New York, Berlin, and Paris, the artist settled in London, where he currently lives and works. Miller’s works have been exhibited worldwide, and in 2020 he organized his largest solo museum exhibition at the York Art Gallery. The artist is known for his large-scale photorealistic paintings of vintage Penguin book covers. Both a critically acclaimed novelist and an influential painter, his style explores the fusion of image and text, similar to that of the American artist Ed Ruscha. He is currently represented by the White Cube gallery in London.
