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To paint abstraction means for Murtić to experience more deeply and dynamically the unhealthy paradoxes of the contemporary world – by a trick of destiny the Croatian artist experiences much right in the focus of these events. Although his testimony can seem like a cry about the tragedy, it is at the same time a precious voice of hope and belief in the human personalities that are to be found at the base of western civilisation.
In the context of the events in Bosnia and Kosovo the creation of the Croatian artist Edo Murtić takes on the fullness of its meaning. It teaches us to understand life more deeply in an attempt to make it better – as in his time Picasso did with his Henry and then with Massacre in Korea.
The art of Murtić is highly rated by the public and by reviewers the world over. The Moscow exhibition of this Zagreb painter fills up a gap in the artistic ideas of the visitor, the lover of painting and the expert who analyses contemporary processes in art.
Yulia Mihailova
Scientist, History Museum of the City of Moscow
Moscow Rhythm, no. 20