Surprise, certainly, from the reserve often, the aversion may be, the attraction also : the range of feelings experienced during a first encounter with the bronzes of Miodrag Tasic is deployed widely. These statues do not leave anyone indifferent, as they emit a uncanny, as they set up the doubt in each of us : have they been inspired by human models? These "inanimate objects" can't exist a day? The representations of the face and the human body naked, in fact, the mirror in which our self-centeredness can not help but see a reflection of ourselves, real, dreamed or repressed. A silent dialogue is established between the sculpture and the viewer. Like poetry, the statue reminds us of something essential, which could well be the consciousness of our own physical reality. What emotion, what a vision, what message the artist is he trying to make happen? In the Face of these bronzes here we are bothered, not only in our perception but also in our cultural, even in our conceptual foundations.

JOHN-PAUL EARLY DAWN
Librarian at museum of Art and History of Nice since 1988, the editorial secretary of the magazine Nice history, he is the author of several publications on the region.

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Tasic receives us in his studio in Marseille, in the heart of the popular district of la Belle de Mai, Boulevard National.

The workshop this is the place where are created all of these human figures, created by the sculptor.
Here the work is performed according to the rules of the oldest of the sculptures, which date back to the Antiquity : working with the lost wax technique, creating the work in wax, and then manufacturing footprint, which will allow the wax mould, which will be used in the foundry casting the bronze.

In the middle of the bronzes, the story of creations of waxes, dust, some pieces of body, arms, feet waiting, work tables, workbenches, numerous tools, a scheduling meticulous who presides over the mystery of what is happening.
We are in the house of the Art in the old sense, in the sense the Renaissance of the term but also in the sense of extremely contemporary of the word. The work of TASIC feeds of this mix between a classical, volume, relief, figurative and escape delirious towards the dream, the imagination of a universe completely unknown to them.
His immense technical expertise, his mastery of gesture, the magic of a creation which shows wrinkles, folds, twists, boursoufle forced a skin and body : of these meanders, these forms, of flesh are born these creatures : works of art One can think of the links of filiation, with artists such as Cellini, Bellmer, or the nearest to us Caesar, or even a painter like Bacon : reliance is a magical, alchemical membership across time. Is this not what Malraux called Art. The sculpture of TASIC gives life.

Biography :

TASIC [Miodrag Tasic] was born in 1954 in Belgrade, former Yugoslavia, has lived up to the teens to Split. His family and himself have emigrated in 1967 to France. He has lived a long time in Nice and in Villefranche-sur-Mer in the Alpes - Maritimes. He began very young to the sculpture, from the 70s. He starts the job at the lost wax and bronze from 1982 in the workshop in Villefranche / mer.

• Foundry Guyot. (Golf-Juan)
• Foundry'arte Venturi (Bologna, Italy)
• Foundry : Barthélémy Art boursoufle in Crest (Drôme)

He participates in many exhibitions.

• Art Junction international 1990 (Cannes),
• Price of Nice Museums, 1993, 13th Biennial meeting, UMAM. Nice,
• Galerie Matarasso, Nice,1994
• Festival of the arts. Beaulieu sur mer, 1997,
• Gallery Louis. Paris, city Hall 6th-Paris, 2002
• The Farm of the arts. Vaison-la-Romaine, 2003
• "Stop for contemporary" Mougins. 2007,
• "The Fund" in scene TASIC at the Château Valrose. Nice, 2009,
• CCIMP. Marseilles, 2015,
• Galerie Marcilhac. Paris, 2016
  Galerie David Pluskwa, Marseille -Saint-Tropez Palace of Europe. Chin, 2016
• Riviera gallery. Nice, 2017

After many years on the Côte d'azur Tasic decided to move to Marseille where he lives and works since 2000.
Tasic is collected around the world from Miami to Dubai via London and Paris.

Galleries Gallery : Laure Matarasso, Nice, Riviera Gallery. Nice Gaudio Group.Monaco Vieceli.Cannes Gallery Pigments. Lurs Ars Nova. Marseille.

Monograph : TASIC / Jean-Paul of early dawn.- Editions Giletta, Nice, 2011

His works are numbered from 1 to 8, signed, stamp of the foundry, according to the legislation in force for the original bronzes.
Credits photos : Robert POULAIN Journalist JS

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"The figures of Miodrag Tasic will never stop teaching you. You're going to live with their absence and question him or her day after day ; you walk out of your life to large areas that you believe once and for all calm and bright and taste them to be a strangeness of unknown ; you will come up against the questions raised stiff-necked, conversations Read more "

"The figures of Miodrag Tasic will never stop teaching you. You're going to live with their absence and question him or her day after day ; you walk out of your life to large areas that you believe once and for all calm and bright and taste them to be a strangeness of unknown ; you will come up against the questions raised stiff-necked, conversations Read more "