In his paintings Šimon Vahala portrays things around us in their simple beauty, which he is able to capture from inside, touch directly. We recognize all that he shows us intimately, although we have never seen things quite like this before.
One of Vahala’s favorite subjects are flowers. He creates what we could call portraits of flowers, where in a simple composition and a seemingly roughly cut, sketch-like style, Šimon captures each flower’s character, the simple naiveté of its presence, with all its nuances, the slightest motion of the pedals, the freshness in the air, the fleeting moment of a flower’s existence, which can remind us of our own.
Šimon Vahala’s works are characteristic by a strange kind of silence, a silence that overtakes us. It is not a silence in the absence of words – in their suspense, while expecting words to come and explain. It is a silence of a world where words never existed and never will exist. Here, in a silence that tunes us to the frequency of a butterfly flapping its wings flying, we do not know how to put into words what we feel. This allows the feeling to stay with us and live its own life side by side with ours—unspoken, undefined, free.
Karolina Dolanská
