Vuk Vidor has worked with musicians Goran Bregović and Marc Cerrone , and English rock band Duran Duran . He directed numerous music clips in Serbia in the 90s . In 2006 , he directed a vido clip about greed for the launch of the Chrysler 300 . Vuk Vidor is a committed and political artist . In 2003 he takes side for the Refugees in an installation called Serbia Remix Project . The subject of the installation is a blue , white , and red striped plastic bag . This bag is according to him , a common feature of every victim of modern conflicts . His work is fraught with historical references and frequently deals with the idea of war . He has built a gold statue of himself in a attempt to reflect both on his ego as an artist . and on Serbian nationalism . In a 2009 series entitled " American Quartet " , he delivers his own vision of the United States . Through figures of weary Superheroes , he denounces the myth of the Frontier and the omnipotence of the US . Captain American becomes an Atlas-like figure , bearing on his shoulder not the world but the American Dream . Jesus is also part of the exhibition , but is shown crucified to Shareholders . The inspiration of his post 9/11 world comes from pop art and American comics – a genre he likes to parody . He twists American symbols and turns heroes into useless villains . He exhibits his works in the United States to force Americans to face their contradictions . He intends to show that today " even super-heroes can not save us " . Generally speaking , his work constantly interrogates the place of humanity in the universe . Vuk Vidor 's vision of art is sometimes controversial . " Vuillard was better than Bonnard , same for Tapiès , Rauschenberg used to be better , Twombly has always painted crap , Bacon was better when he was alive . " , he said in a 1999 manifesto-like work entitled " Art history " . In 2007 he co-signed an editorial in the French newspaper L’Humanité , criticizing how the French Ministry for Culture was contributing to create a normalized and monopolistic " official art " . He spoke against the " masked puppeteers " who are imposing diktats of fashion and trends in the art world . He asked for a fair repartition of temporary exhibition spaces . His work is transgressive : he even directed erotic videos . In 2012 , Vuk Vidor created the under-realist movement with Kosta Kulundzic , a Franco-American artist of Serbian origin , and the French artist Stéphane Pencréac ’ h . The movement is a reaction against the over-conceptualisation of contemporary painting . For them , the image is more important than the idea . The under-realism is a grouping of artists who share the same vision of the artist 's condition and are trying to free themselves from the diktats of market and trends . Vuk Vidor was awarded the Ito Ham Prize in 1986 . He was awarded the International Painting Prize of Vitry-sur-Seine in 1996 .
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