Happiness is Within Reach

The publication Happiness is within reach evaluates the work of painter Erik Šille (1978), who appears on the Slovak art scene as an unmissable solitaire. Even though it came from the collective background of the strong painting generation coming after the year 2000, today it would no longer be enough with the advantage of a successful start. His presence on the art scene is a confirmation that painting, even in the time of ubiquitous digital painting, is not just an archaic relic of times past. On the contrary, it proves that even with a brush and paint, the story of the contemporary world can be told, even in such a way that, when stopped in painting, its cracks seem to be even more visible and deeper. Šille leads us through the streets of cities constructed as building blocks and staged fairy-tale landscapes, in which he plays dramas, comedies and farces of a collapsing world.