Ena Jurov (1988, Zadar) is a visual communications designer and comic strip author. He participates in VJing projects with the leilamarinaena collective, publishes comics in Komikaze and runs comic book and design workshops. She completed her master's degree in Storytelling at Konstfack University in Stockholm and undergraduate studies in Design at the Faculty of Architecture in Zagreb.
The "Nineties”, a series of illustrations " by Ena Jurov, is created in dialogue with the memories of people interviewed for the exhibition "90e: Scars", which was opened at the Rijeka Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art on 27 July 2021. Ena Jurov extracts the motives mentioned in interviews by journalists, critics, historians and participants of the exhibition and inserts them into her own hazy, and often inaccurate, memories of the 1990s. The motif of the cow, the trademark of Kinder Lada spread, which adorned ceramic mugs and bowls, is misremembered by the artist and displayed on a Cedevita glass.
The series visually follows the interviewees’ memories and commentaries on the music scene in the 1990s and the opposition between rock and electronic music / rave parties (interview with Tonći Kožul), and combines the 'mythologization of Franjo Tudjman monuments' with the culture of resistance (Dragan Markovina). There are two illustrations that refer directly to the peace activism of the Women in Black, i.e. the artistic actions of Saša Marković Mikrob in Belgrade (both illustrations were inspired by the memories of art collective Škart).
All illustrations can be viewed on the link.
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Museum’s collection offers a diverse range of artistic visions with over 8,000 artworks dated from the end of the 19th century to the present day. From 2017 Museum is located at new address, Krešimirova 26c, in ex-industrial complex Rikard Benčić. Since then, some important exhibitions were organized at MMSU in the framework of the pre-program and program of Rijeka 2020 - European Capital of Culture, i.e. Tomislav Gotovac: Crisis Anticipator - Don't Ask Where We're Going (2017), Vlado Martek: Exhibition with Many Titles and Goran Petercol: Don't Worry About Poetics, They Will Arrive on Their Own in 2019 and David Maljković: With the Collection in 2020..