13.05.2011. – 24.05.2011.

Collage technique.

The common denominator of the latest works of Bata Prica is a basis formed of old magazines and books sheets whose arrangement is already producing thick structural and semantic texture that is being built by visual methods. Such a basis determines course and text templates to encourage associative binding motif for the future collage…

Motives.

In his previous work Bata Prica has most often found his motives through research and analysis of various models from the world of art, especially modern art, which served to him as a non-exhaustive database, the material for “recycling” and to review the ideas and actions of artists. Items such as children’s toys, food like a slice of watermelon, or bugs or germs, are the dominant motifs separated in thematic units. Teddy bear and other toys, “borrowed” from the friends’ children are “portrayed” like a pop icons…

Zoran Eric, from exhibition catalogue