REKLI SU O SLIKARSTVU ALICE JAKIROVICA?

Sigurno je, stoga, da Alica Jakirović nije postao umjetnikom time što je ugradio sebe u prostoru Kujundžiluka, on je u njega ušao kasnije i sa već oformljenim nagonom za staranjem.
Ono što, ipak, treba zabilježiti u vezi sa Alicom Jakirovićem, to je činjenica da taj poriv za  „ uslikavanjem“ oblika iz životne sredine nije bila prolazna pojava već se protezao u jedno trajno stanje osvješćenog htijenja da se perceptivne mogućnosti, kao vid inklinacije ka likovnim umjetnostima, razvija u jedan širi zamah ustaljenog mišljenja, zasnovanog na likovnom jeziku, iz čije bi se aktivističke melase modelirane spoznaje o svijetu,  razumijevale forme kao nešto daleko smisaonije za egzistenciju čovjekovu, pa makar sve to ostajalo na razini impresije, onog udivljenja pred tim formama koje je formulirala demijurška snaga nekih drugih sila izvan čovjeka.
Kamen je počelo njegovih stvaralačkih vizija. Kamen kao mjerilo ljudskosti, bez obzira na to u kakvom se stanju umjetnik zaticao. Ipak, najustrajnija inspiracija ovom umjetniku je Stari most koji se, svim svojim bićem, otvara pogledu kada se stane ispred umjetnikovog ateljea. Slikao je njegovu hodnu liniju koja je zastajala, u njegovoj viziji, negdje u slobodnom prostoru, slikao njegov pervaz, slikao njegov odraz u Neretvi, slikao njegov izvijeni luk.                 Vojislav Vujanović, istoričar umjetnosti i likovni kritičar

Alica Jakirović je slikar okrenut životu koji posmatra svoje postojanje, svoju zadaću u tradiciji kontinuiranog koračanja naprijed. Ovaj kontinuitet mjeren prema predmetu, postaje zahvaljujući njemu, slika „ Nečega“ ali je to više od toga „Nešto“, više od slike.
Manfred Dinnes, akd. Slikar iz Njemačke

Svjestan svojih mogučnosti, Alica  Jakirović se okreće akvarelu tehnici meditacije i slikarskog nerva, tehnici koja kroti hitrinu i kojoj treba dati iskustvo oblika, pa je u tom poslu on postigao zavidnu lakoću i uvjerljivost.
Prof. Halil Tikveša, akad. Slikar, Beograd

Kada putnik ili namjernik, ispred ateljea Alice Jakirovića posmatra Mostar, najprije bih rekao da se  radi o fino izvezenom goblenu u kome je, strpljenjem i umjetnošću vezilje utkano mnogo boja, glasova i zvukova što omamljuje ljepotom. On svojim slikama obnavlja i dograđuje grad.
Alija Kebo, pjesnik i publicista, Mostar

Alica Jakirović nije fantast, on je samo i jedino poetski čitač svog svakodnevnog okoliša. Na njegovim slikama kao da miriše hercegovačka duša, kao da se otvaraju i zatvaraju zdenci sreće i kliktaji nespokoja... Njegovi  prizori su prizori poetske harmonizacije jednog, skoro bi se moglo kazati, odbjeglog i iščezlog svijeta. Jakirović slika poetičku viziju hercegovačke duše. Kao da on vaskrsava žudnju za životom, kao da propinje i napreže ljudske napore da se dosegne nemoguće, da se bude IZNAD i ISPRED svakodnevnog i svakodnevnice.
Prof. Gradimir Gojer, Sarajevo

Letjeti u plaveti mostarskog neba, tražiti svu čarobnost kamene veze u kojoj se prelama sklad prirode i čovjekovog otiska, utapati se u tonove harmonije južnog svijeta, tražiti sve zapretane boje i njihove game što iskrsavaju u svojoj nepredvidljivosti i mnogoznačnosti, ulaziti u svijet onih što su stavljali kamen na kamen u želji da polete u visine jeste avantura koju je izabrao Alica Jakirović. Smjela, zanimljiva, opsesivna, trajna i teška, u isto vrijeme, avantura.
Zlatko Serdarević, novinar i publicista,Mostar

U svakom pokretu njegove ruke vidljiva je ta velika privrženost rodnoj grudi. Iz Aličine ljubavi prema Mostaru učimo se kako voljeti i rodni grad i sve gradove diljem svijeta. Njegove slike zorno pokazuju kako su ljudi nekada stvaralački gradili i svoju tradiciju održavali.
Vjera Latković, Karlovac

On bi u vaše dnevne i nočne boravke volio useliti dio jednog Mostara što je preživio, uglavnom, u pjesmama. Zato se bavi ovim krasno mukotrpnim poslom. Pokušava obezbijediti budučnost prošlosti. Bar dio birvaktilskog Mostara  konzervirati za daleka neka pokolenja.
Mišo Marić, pjesnik, London

Vječna inspiracija mostarskog slikara Alice Jakirovića nalazi se upravo u prostoru u kojem živi i stvara. Mostarski Stari grad sa svojom bogatom arhitektonskom baštinom, okupan posebnom svjetlošću i mediteranskom vegetacijom ovjekovječen je na njegovim slikama. Slike ovog autora su jedan ukradeni trenutak nepovratnog vremena projeciran kroz filter uljanih boja, akvarela i akrilika.
Zlatko Zvonić, istoričar umjetnosti

U izbrazdanoj bjelini kamena Alica Jakirović, istančanim likovnim darom, otkriva unutrašnje, duboko utkane usplahirene životne niti. U žilavom, škrtom rastinju ova životna pulsiranja hrle ka nebeskim plavetnilom. Uspinju se prkosno u težnji dostizanja dalekih visina. Svoj smiraj u predahu nalaze u dodiru sa hercegovačkim, umilnim sunčanim zracima. Slike Alice Jakirovića pokazuju da fluidni dodir rastinja i neobične svjetline  sunčevih zraka osnažuju i životnost u kamenu uronjenih korijenja rastinja i govorni dah okamenjenih površina. Istančanim likovnim senzibilitetom Alica Jakirović otkriva u beživotnom kamenu životnost, u nepokretnoj stijeni pokret, u raspukloj poukotini zahuktalo strujanje, u nemuštom rastinju glasni nagovještaj siline krša. Likovno omeđeni prostori ne zatvaraju stvarne prostore, ne ograničavaju ni njihovu krševitu bujnost niti draž izrazite svjetline. Razdragani odsjaji sunca, od rane zore do kasnog predvečerja, prelijevaju ove prostore raznolikošću svjetlosti bjeline.                                                                     Prof.dr. Ismet Dizdarević, Sarajevo

WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT THE ART WORK OF ALICA?

It is definite then, that Alica Jakirović did not become an artist by inaugurating himself into the Kujundžiluk, he came there later with an already established urge for creation.
However, what needs to be recorded regarding Alica Jakirović is the fact that urge to„transfer into painting“ the forms from his surrounding was not a passing occurrence but rather it evolved into a permanent state of conscious desire to develop perceptive abilities, as a form of inclination towards fine arts, into a wider scope of popular belief, based on the artistic language, from whose activist molasses modeling of world view, forms would become understood as something far more meaningful for human existence, even if it all remains at a level of an  impression, a sort of admiration before these forms, formed by the force of other forces outside of man.
The stone is the foundation of his creative visions. Stone as the measure of humanity, regardless of the current state of the artist. However, the most persistent inspiration for this Old Bridge which used to open up entirely to view in front of the artist's studio. He used to paint it's  form which would halt, in his vision, somewhere in the free space, he painted it's reflection in Neretva, it's curves.
Vojislav Vujanović, art historian and art critic

Alica Jakirović is a painter intrigued by life, taking notice of his own existence, his task in tradition of continuous moving forward. This continuity is measured in accordance whith the subject, it comes into existence thanks to it, a painting of „something“ but it is more than that  „something“, more than a painting.                                                                    Manfred Dinnes, Painter from Germany

Aware of possibilities, Alica Jakirović turns towards aquarelle technique of meditation and artistic nerve, a technique which tames rashness and wich needs to be given the shape experience, so he achieved an amazing easiness and persuasion in his work.
Professor Halil Tikveša, painter, Beograd

When a traveler or a passerby finds himself in front of the studio of Alica Jakirović, observing Mostar, his first inclination is to think that he's looking at a nicely crafted needlework in wich are vomen, with a patience and artistic vision of an embroiderer, a lot of colors, voices and sounds whose beauty takes a breathe away. With his paintings he renews and rebuilds the city. Alija Kebo, a poet and a publisher, Mostar

Alica Jakirović is not a fantast, he is only a poetic reader of his dai world. Jakirović paints a poetic  vision of the soul of Herzegovina. As if he was resurrecting the lust for life, as if he was extending human efforts to achieve the impossible, to be ABOVE and BEFORE the everyday and the ordinary.

 Professor Gradimir Gojer, Sarajevo                                                          

To fly in the clearness of the Mostar sky, to seek the magic of the stone vase in which the are interwoven the harmony of nature are the human imprint, to drown in the tones of harmony of Southern world, to search for colors which appear in their unpredictability and  various meanings, to enter a world of those who placed stone upon a stone because of the desire to soar high, all of  that signifies the adventure chosen by Alica Jakirović. Daring, interesting, obsessive, lasting and hard adventure, all at once.                Zlatko Serdarević, journalist and publisher, Mostar                                     

In each movement of his hand attachment to his homestead is obvious. From Alica's love for Mostar we learn to love both our home town and all towns in the world. His paintings show how people used to build and maintain their tradition.
Vjera Latković, Karlovac

He would like to bring into your living rooms a part of Mostar  that lived mainly in poems. That is why he keeps doing this beautifully hard work. He is trying to secure a future for the past. To conserve at least a bit of the old Mostar for the generations to come.     Mišo Marić, a poet, London                                                                              

The eternal inspiration og a painter from Mostar, Alica Jakirović, can be found in the place where he lives and creates. The Old Town in Mostar with it's Mediterranean vegetation has been eternalized in his paintings. These paintings are a stolen moment of a time that has passed, projected through a filter of oil paintings, aquarelle and acrylics.                                                                   Zlatko Zvonić, art historian

In the grooved whiteness of stone, Alica Jakirović with refined artistic talent reveals inner, deep-interwoven, fluttered threads of Life. Within hardy, sparse vegetation, this life pulse hastens toward azure. It soars obstinately to reach great heights and takes its rest only when it touches Herzegovina pleasant sunrays. Paintings by Alica Jakirović prove that fluid touch of plants and unusual brightness of sunrays add strength to life of plant roots deep in stone as well as to the breath uttered by the petrified surfaces. With his refined artistic sensibility, Alica Jakirović uncovers  life in the lifeless stone, movement in  the immovable rock, roaring flow in the open crack, a loud announcement of the stone strength in wordless plants. Space bordered by art doesn't border real space nor limit its rocky richness or fascination of the dazzling light. Delighted glow of sun, from early dawn to dusk, pour whitnesses of the light onto this space.        Ismet Dizdarević, Ph.Dr., Sarajevo