Tasic is courageous; his uncompromising work presents bodies that leave no one indifferent. Immersed in an excess of folds, Tasic’s characters are immobilized in positions that are simultaneously ludicrous, desperate, and full of humor. Exuberant in their nudity yet modest at the same time, they move us through their sheer humanity.
« TASIC’s bronzes compel us to consider obesity, old age, and ugliness. They invite us to see, beyond the artworks, living beings around us who suffer in their relationships with others and with themselves, prompting us to ask how they can evolve in a world that is not made for them. These statues also materialize a refusal of one of the great and unfair paradoxes of our contemporary world: the ideal of a young, thin, and athletic body, while consumerist society constantly pushes us toward excess. They transgress this dogma and, in a certain way, stand as absolute freedom in the face of a world obsessed with weight control… »
Jean-Paul Potron
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