Mile Basic - Paintings - born in 1954

Mile Tasić was born in Subotica on June 30, 1954. He finished elementary school and high school in his hometown. After completing his law studies in Novi Sad, he was employed at the National Theater in Subotica, where he worked for seven years. After that, he moved to the City Library in Subotica, where he was employed as a lawyer. He passed the library exam in 1991 and transferred to the Local Department of the City Library in 1994.

In 2005, as the author of the show Relaxed, he began his unique series of all-night radio shows in which he presents our fellow citizens who have distinguished themselves in terms of social and cultural activities. In the same year, after the beginning of the broadcast of the television program, he realized his author's show in a new medium with great success. The realization of a new author's series called Art Traces begins, where it presents everything that is important in the field of art culture of the city.

During several years of being a journalist in the Opusteno show, Mile Tasić interviewed and presented to the public the work of many important social and cultural creators. It was recorded that over 200 artists, creators, public and social workers were guests in the City Television studio, among them those who left a lasting and unrepeatable mark on the cultural and social map of the city, such as art historian Bela Duranci, sculptor Sava Halugin, painter Sajko Istvan , gallerist Stevan Francer, musician Arpad Bakoš, book seller Mirko Kovač and many others.

From 2005 to the present day, Mile Tasić managed to record over 500 contributions from the world of artistic creation of the city and its surroundings with the author's show Art traces. From the first show until today, the activities of cultural institutions such as the Modern Art Encounter Gallery, the City Museum, the Vinko Perčić Native Gallery, the City Library, the Open University, national cultural centers as well as numerous schools, galleries and studios have been continuously recorded. Among others, in the show Art traces, famous artists from Subotica such as Augustin Juriga, Ruža Tumbas, Miroslav Jovančić, Erika Janovič were guests, and the works of Ferenc Eisenhut, Ana Bešlić, Slavko Matković, Emil Kadirić and many other prominent artists were presented.

During a long series of years, Mile Tasić collaborated with the magazine Likovni život, in which he recorded the creativity of local artists. He wrote for the magazines Luča, Rukovet, Ex Panonia, Zlatna greda, Pančevačko čitalište, Dimenzije (Slovačka) and Suboticke novine, in which he has his regular column called Visual Trace. He publishes works in professional periodicals in the field of librarianship. During his thirty years of work in culture, he organized numerous exhibitions, and his successful performances with writer and artist Slavko Matković and actor Ištvan Nađa, with whom he also organized successful exhibitions at the National Theater and the Small Gallery of the City Library, were noted.

As an artist, Mile Tasić had twenty successful exhibitions both at home and abroad, of which it is worth noting the award-winning Crucifixion project in New York in 1998, and his participation in the International Biennale of Contemporary Art in Florence (2001), where he presented his work Visual echo of 2000 years of Christianity .