Simon Vahala, who is formed at the Prof. Milan Knizak's school (belonging to the International artistic movement Fluxus) rejects the traditional art knowledge and promotes the disgression of the creative act in the flow of the daily life, attending an art which prefers the artist's gesture and visual enjoyment. Vahala applies himself to the figurative in a very personal way. In his works, Vahala leaves any ideologic duty and intellectual trends, finding again the pleasure in his own style, he sinks his roots in the German expressionism, even if recovering the traditional means of the pictorial experience. That of Simon Vahala is a new expressive way and for sure the artist can consider himself as a precursor and original interpreter of the "new figuration", where irony mingles with oneirism on the canvas. Vahala is doing an aesthetic search, but also and above all a conceptual work, where the painting is at the disposal of his ideas, a consideration on the perception of the image.

Vahala is author and actor of a personal poetic creation. Since he does not fix the limit between abstract and concrete painting, he leaves us roving in the Limbo of the reflection. Simon Vahala's themes: mythological and social, where night lights and shadows crowd his imaginary world, are interpreted in an ever newer language, but at the same time recognizable and once again the artist's look is dispelled, becoming a silent poet of the world.

 

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