...But it is light/colour, the almost fluorescent and magic light achieved by progressive drafting, that more than anything else creates in Bahunek's figures the soft movement, allusive and gently insinuating, in the very same moment in which the plastic tension in the volumes appears to subside, and the bodies are released in a fluid and continuous line capable of baring beauty while alluding only to the innermost sentiments, the remotest agitations, with a dignity and a sense of harmony which bare witness to the high poetic quality of this artists personality...

...But, far from being ingenuity in itself, this is frankness and simplicity of an authentic master who has developed his interpretation of the female figure to the highest degree of representativeness, and heraldic and communicative expressiveness, and to the deepest levels of psychological allusiveness...

... He is an incurable Romantic who choreographs his painterly world of poetic expression. Each canvas faithfully mirrors his sensibility. Bahunek is also a latter-day Expressionist whose visual inventiveness and instinctive freshness prevent him from becoming too precious. ...

Burt CHERNOW is an art educator and writer. He is a member of the International Art Critics Association (A.I.C.A.) and has written over 30 books and catalogs. Mr. Chernow has taught at the Museum of Modern Art and elsewhere and is the founder and Director Emeritus of the Housatonic Museum of Art.

...The avant-garde and sophisticated taste will easily be attracted by the loneliness of an artist outside all trends and outside standard iconography. In an age distinguished by a new mass character the individual act assumes additional value. That is, Bahunek is alone, and this applies equally to his paintings and to his sculptures. Fortunately enough, collectors and individual lovers of art are tired of art which is a product of guessing and knowing trends, and in which the work of art is merely a successful cocktail mixed in accordance with the current taste of the market...

Tomislav ŠOLA born 1948 in Zagreb. Studied art history and journalism in Zagreb, museology in Zagreb and Paris, France. Took doctor's degree in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Professor of museology, University of Zagreb. Was a member of executive council of ICOM/UNESCO. Two books and about 300 other professional and scientific publications in the fields of museology and art. Numerous lectures and projects world-wide. A standing member of the jury for the European Museum of the Year (EMYA/EU).