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MIRsO BAJRAMOVIC
Lives and works in gennep, the netherlands
 www.mirso.nl
artist contact
 art@mirso.nl
An art, it might be claimed with slight
exaggeration, which is the especial reserve
of artists deriving from regions east of us.
That’s where they know best how to paint
such sacred nocturnes, how to perform
the astral liturgy. Mirso Bajramovic too is
one who paints `Hymns to Night`. He too
follows Jean Cocteau’s poetical direction
of `carrying night through day`, extending
the possible world of the dream into the
profane world of up-to-datedness. But he
is not just a painter of nocturnes and `Night
thoughts`. He is also a commonsensical
man with a Western inquisitiveness about
the system, the anatomy of romantic
imagery. I say: part of his art is about art
and even that Art creates art. This did MULTI, acryLic on canvas 32x40 in. /80x100 cm.
not make him a post-modernist. To him VALKHOF insiDe
the modern tradition is not `old news`, a
decrepit archive, ’Yesterday’s Papers`, from
which one may legally quote from memory.
No, he remained IN the tradition. Which is
still as fully operative in former Yugoslavia
as it is in the whole of Europe.

So Mirso Bajramovic is not simply an artist
who carries night through day, he also
wants the sun to shine in the darkness,
make the light of reason clarify the dream.
Or rather: he comes up to the arch-aphorist
Karl Kraus’ expectations about people
who dare call themselves artists: `An artist
is someone who manages to change a
solution into a mystery.` What does he do
with that mystery, this happy artist? No, he
does not solve it. He starts to search for
her whom G.B. Shaw named `the sphinx
without mysteries` - the muse, maybe.
What she does and wants Bajramovic to
do, what she still has in store for him, is
and should be a mystery for now. What
is certain, notwithstanding, is this: first TRENDS
Bajramovic silenced me, then he made
me speak interminably. May I be forgiven
for both.
Maarten Beks, Kunstbeeld (excerpt)