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IN CELEBRATION OF THE WOMAN AND EROS

Celebrating the woman and Eros as an essential part of himself, the artist using his broad moves, strongly and originally succeeds to take us at least an inch closer to the revelation of the secret woman who always was and still is an object of the works of all the artists in the world. His painting is on the edge of real and abstract, packed with electricity and a certain wild power, may we be forgiven for this.

Bata Musicki is the painter of any region, a lyrical painter which becomes any county, any eye, and that is where the difference comes from between him and his hometown colleagues. Looking at his canvases, for a moment it seems like all his paintings come from a single one. It is completely understandable, because one theme is broken into different points of view. Anyway, a painter is always painting just one painting, like a poet is writing just one poem which will baptize his name. His paintings are the thinnest part of the artist's soul, and his intimate feeling.

Slobodan Ristovic, September, 1995

THE WORK OF BRATISLAV MUSICKI

The canvas of Bata Musicki, born in Ub, is an arena, and color and line are biography of the painter. Quickly and easily, Bata finds his way to the modern sensibility of young people.

Color gushes and spills; dizzy, colored lines and strips are like an inextricable labyrinth; still the rhythmic course of movement of the contours narrows into controlled pictorial unity. The technique here is only a means of expressing something.

Where lack of shape rules, and coincidence becomes the principle of creativity, the artist freely finds signs and by the rhythm of the blobs of paint and colors he expresses directly spiritual impulses. Silhouettes of the male and female body, painted in monochrome, white, black and grey, bring calm to that kaleidoscope of colors. In some corner or even in the center of the picture, some recognizable objects of the present day appear as details. As if the space itself and the dimensions of the painting put different demands before the artist. In larger formats he seems stronger, more relaxed, but also more crude without concessions. In smaller formats he is more lyrically subtle.

The painter boldly and easily leaps over the abyss. He succeeds in reconciling the irreconcilable: from the chaos and clash of colors and shapes and those brought down to regular, geometrical, painted precisely by evenly painted color which is pure, deep and transparent. The regularity of the shapes calms coloristic overflow. On the whole it looks vibrant and stirring with tranquil, broadly painted silhouettes of human body, and then from some corner of the painting spring the irregularly spilt, blurred shapes.

By scanty means, avoiding portayal of people's faces, consciously or unconsciously neglecting, he brings the body language to perfection. Those nameless male's bodies, reduced to torso, at first made me feel resistance, as that to the contemporary civilization,and the one who grinds us, making us little wheels of some huge mechanism in full swing. But later, it appeared to me that the painter's sharpened talent for observation and the touching talk of those male and female nudes, reduced to a silhouette, is the artist's response to the present day's challenges.

Sensuality and body which is the source of all anxieties, but the release as well, discover the strength and weakness of the contemporary man.

And when it is a bright pink figure of a child preoccupied with game, then it looks as if it unconsciously defies dark background of the space into which it was placed by the painter, or it is the white silhouette of a woman in a raincoat with an umbrella, staring somewhere in front of herself. In that, as well as in all other Bata's paintings, emerges his talent for expressing the talk of human body in the sense of the painting, provocations that at some time as well as now, incited the artist to revolt and created hope that maybe new age is to come that would not restrict the freedom of creativity.

Marijeta Ilic, October, 1995

ABSTRACTLY AND ABSOLUTELY

Among us, people from Ub, the painter Bata Musicki is considered to be someone special. He achieved that honourably by his paintings and exhibitions. Bata has already taken his place among other famous people from Ub.

Paintings and painting of Bata Musicki cannot be divided into periods. Approaching his 17 th birthday, he introduced himself to a wider audience in the same way he does now – by large compositions, characteristic colors and various techniques. Time does not happen to him and his paintings.

What is abstract on the canvases of Musicki is literally separation from everything. Intentionally or accidentally, without neglecting what is essential, pure paintings appear from the imagination and workshop of Musicki.

Observing the canvases of Musicki, possibly more than with other painters, we find ourselves before the secret of knowledge. While he goes from the spirit and idea towards his painting, we are left only with an attempt at reconstruction and moving backwards.

One more category specifies the painting of Musicki. Tendency towards absolute, limitless, complete, without any kind of dependence and condition… It costs sometimes, but the one who acts and wants it that way,does not care what the cost is.

Branko Rajsic, March 6 th , 1999

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