"On the occasion of the awarded work, in September 2008, Ćurić organized an exhibition of spatial comics at the Student Cultural Center in Belgrade, entitled "Service for the dynamics of space", where, in addition to the awarded work, he exhibited several other experiments based on a similar principle of structuring. In the presentation of this exhibition, S  Vuković finds the value and innovation in Ćurić's work in abandoning the stereotypical relationship between comics and contemporary art, in (previously) established direct transfers from one area to another. In this change of approach to the medium, and in relation to previously awarded experiments, an important question was raised about the structure  comics, in a way that had not been considered until then. Kultura [4]

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"Ćurić povodom nagrađenog rada u septembru 2008. godine priređuje izložbu prostornog stripa u Studentskom kulturnom centru u Beogradu, pod nazivom „Servis za dinamiku prostora" gde, sem nagrađenog rada, izlaže i još nekoliko eksperimenata zasnovanih na sličnom principu strukturisanja. U prikazu ove izložbe S. Vuković vrednost i inovativnost u Ćurićevom radu, nalazi u napuštanju stereotipskih odnosa stripa i savremene umetnosti, (prethodno) utvrđenim direktnim transferima iz jedne oblasti u drugu. U ovoj promeni pristupa mediju, a u odnosu na prethodno nagrađivane eksperimente, postavljeno je važno pitanje o strukturi stripa, na način koji do tada nije bio razmatran..." Kultura [4]

PROČITAJTE CEO TEKST

At the fifth Belgrade International Comic Salon in 2007, the work of author Aleksander Ćurić was particularly notable – a spatial comic titled "Story of a Proud Man." Although there were previous authors (N. Pejić, M. Veselinović, S. Restecka, and Ž. Sanecka [S. Restecka, J. Sanecka - Polish comic authors, author's note], B. Milenković) with interesting reflections, their works were more focused on technical modifications but hardly or minimally considered or questioned the structure of the medium itself. Aleksander's work, described as an installation in the catalog, is much more than a spatial arrangement, primarily due to its narrative potential.

The three-dimensionality in this work applies to multiple levels – formal, structural, and semantic-ideational – and, in this regard, the work goes beyond the understanding of installation as such, as it does not pertain to spatial intervention that constitutes the content of the space itself, i.e., an intervention that alters the perception of space or gives it specific meanings. The catalog of the fifth Salon features a review by Z. Stefanović, who particularly notes that "the greatest breakthrough in alternative expression did not occur in two-dimensional form (which merely confirmed the already established styles), but in the expansion of comic art beyond the paper medium – into installation, spatial intervention, and sculptural dimensions." Eteze [6]

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Na petom beogradskom Međunarodnom salonu stripa, 2007. godine je naročito bio zapažen rad autora Aleksandera Ćurića – prostorni strip: „Priča o ponositom čoveku”. Iako su mu prethodili autori (N. Pejić, M. Veselinović, S. Restecka i Ž. Sanecka [S. Restecka, J. Sanecka – poljske strip autorke, prim. aut.], B. Milenković) sa interesantnim promišljanjima, njihovi radovi više su se ticali tehničkih modifikacija, ali takvih koje su nimalo ili u tek neznatnoj meri uopšte razmatrale ili dovodile u pitanje strukturu samog medija. Aleksanderov rad, u samom katalogu opisan instalacijom, mnogo je više od prostorne postavke, najpre zbog narativnog potencijala.

Trodimenzionalnost u ovom radu odnosi se na više ravni – formalnu, strukturalnu i semantičko-idejnu – i po tome ovaj rad nadilazi poimanje instalacije kao takve, jer se ne odnosi na intervenciju u prostoru koja je sadržaj samog prostora, odnosno, onu intervenciju koja menja percepciju prostora niti mu daje neka značenja. Katalog petog Salona donosi recenziju Z. Stefanovića u kojoj posebno zapaža da se „najveći prodor u alternativnom izrazu nije desio u dvodimenzionalnoj formi (koja je samo likovno potvrdila već viđene škole), već u proširivanju stripske umetnosti van papirnog medijuma – na instalaciju, prostornu intervenciju i skulpturnu dimenziju” Eteze [6]

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"The possibility that all of that can be different, that is, that the experience of making strip can be analytically applied to the production of works which question the limits of genre conventions in artistic and formal displays is shown by the Alexander’s exhibit known as the “SERVICE FOR SPATIAL DYNAMICS” (showcasing the spatial and alternative strip). Alexander releases this exhibit as the winner of the SCC (student cultural center, Belgrade) award for “innovation of the strip arts” at the annual 5th  International strip Salon hosted by SCC in september 2007, and his exhibit was the introduction to this year’s strip salon in SCC. Even though this exhibition is observed, at first glance, as the serie of spatial installations, with physically very present elements, where some have an explicit sculptural qualities, combined together with text fragments which introduce some form of narration, which resembles, but barely just the strip narration, and by which are joined just but a few standard strip boards, hung on one wall, and it’s author insists that this is the “Exhibition of Spatial and alternative strip”

Stevan Vuković  S. Vukovic [8]

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"Da sve to može da bude drugačije, to jest da se iskustvo rada  na stripu može analitički primeniti na produkciju radova koji preispituju granice delovanja žanrovskih konvencija u likovnom i oblikovnom prikazivanju, pokazuje izložba Aleksandera Ćurića, pod nazivom „Servis za dinamiku prostora (izložba prostorno i alternativnog stripa)“. Ćurić ovu izložbu realizuje kao dobitnik nagrade Galerije SKCa za inovaciju u strip umetnosti na Petom međunarodnom salonu stripa, održanom u SKCu 2007. godine, i uvod je u ovogodišnji Salon. Iako se, na prvi pogled, izložba opaža kao niz prostornih instalacija sa veoma fizički prisutnim elementima, od kojih neki imaju i skulpturalne karakteristike, povezane fragmentima tekstova što uvode neku vrstu naracije, koja tek asocira na stripovsku, uza šta je gotovo naknadno dodato i svega nekoliko standardnih strip tabli na jednom od zidova, njen autor insistira na tome da je to izložba „prostornog i alternativnog stripa“

Stevan Vuković S. Vukovic [8]

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Aleksander Ćurić is realizing this solo exhibition as the winner of the SKC Gallery Award for Innovation at the Fifth International Comics Salon in SKC in 2007. This exhibition presents a cycle of works, which stylistically derive from the experience of genre drawing in the manner of comics, but in their realization take the form of spatial installations. They show a kind of ambivalence, being both objective, directly present in the material sense and completely ethereal, as linear spatial drawings. Alexander lives and works in Ćuprija, where he is a member of the local art association Tatlin. He is involved in comics, writing, installations and electronic music.

Aleksander Ćurić ovu samostalnu izložbu realizuje kao dobitnik nagrade Galerije SKC za inovaciju na petom međunarodnom salonu stripa u SKC - u 2007. godine. Ova izložba predstavlja ciklus radova, koji stilski proizilaze iz iskustva žanrovskog crteža u maniru stripa, ali u realizaciji poprimaju forme prostornih instalacija. One pokazuju neku vrstu ambivalencije, bivajući i objektni, neposredno prisutni u materijalnom smislu i sasvim eterični, kao linearni prostorni crteži. Aleksander živi i radi u Ćupriji, gde je član lokalne umetničke asocijacije Tatlin. Bavi se stripom, pisanjem, instalacijama i elektronskom muzikom.

Spatial fiction/strip is the new artistic form which won the Special prize of the jury for innovation in strip for Alexander at the 5th International strip review in Belgrade. It is about the alternative strip, observed from the perspective of spatial drawing, made out of various materials ex. Steel, iron, plywood... The most drastic difference between such an installation and spatial drawing lies in the special approach to the story through the repetition of elements. Namely, a spatial strip shot consists of one drawing, and the whole of them make one board. 

Prostorni strip je nova likovna forma za koju je Aleksander Ćurić dobio specijalnu nagradu žirija za inovaciju u strip umetnosti na 5. medjunarodnom salonu stripa u Beogradu. Reč je o alternativnom stripu, sagledanom iz ugla prostornog crteža, sačinjenom od različitog materijala poput čelika, gvoždja, iverice... Najdrastičnija razlika izmedju takve instalacije i prostornog crteža, nalazi se u posebnom pristupu priči kroz repeticiju elemenata. Naime, u prostornom stripu, jedan crtež čini samo jedan kadar, dok čitava celina čini strip tablu... 

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