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Murtić proceeds into the anthropological origin of the problem, does not stop at the forms that this root might take on, at the next ideological, moral or political justifications.
The result is a painting of exceptional dramatic strength, which directs its main resources, its broad movements and vibrant colour, to marking, just as they previously marked joy infused with vitality, now the suffering of death, more within than outside man and society.
It is common to say that the painter talks through his works. The effectiveness of Murtić’s speech is enormous and reminds us that our thinking about the events that impinge on his and thus our history and humanity may not be transitory.
Giancarlo Pauletto,
Curator at the Museum of Modern Art, Pordenone, Italy
catalogue of the Guerra perche exhibition, Galleria Sagittaria, Pordenone