JOSE FEREZ KURI

JOSE FEREZ KURI was an independent curator, artists agent, author and producer. Born in Mexico to Lebanese parents, Jose has established himself internationally as an authority on modern art, beat artists and Avant Garde artists, and on renaissance men like Brion gysin and William Burroughs. He edited the ultimate tome about Gysin (Brion Gysin: Tuning in to the Multimedia Age, Thames and Hudson), after years of research into artist's work. In 1998 he organized the largest Gysin retrospective to date at the Edmonton Art Gallery. As the official of Curator of the William Burroughs Archive, he co-curated William S. Burroughs: From Painting to Guns (2004), and contributed to Cut-Outs and Cut-Ups: Hans Christian Andersen and William Seward Burroughs. He is Kenji Yoshida's agent and friend, and the associate producer on Kenji Yoshida-Artist of the Soul. He also and facilitated the film's express premier at UNESCO, within the context of Yoshida's major exhition Vie et Paix. His scholarship, contacts and superb diplomacy helped make Stonedog's work much easier.

Sadly, the great curator, author and transvangardist passed away in Paris on 25 March 2010. He is sorely missed.