Paintings of Juss Piho have become within a short period of time part of the general vision of the artist\'s creation to such an extent that detaching these two would bring about irreparable results in the functioning of the whole organism or in handling of Piho\'s whole creation. Artist, whose handwriting can be described to be fully formed, started to paint last year unexpected lines that kept growing and finally melted with dazzling colours into large-format paintings. So one day Juss Piho was just standing in his studio, watching in wonder, how his pictures were having coffee and a nice converation with each other.

In the warm summer of the year 2002 in the basement hall of the Haus Gallery took place Juss Piho\'s first stepping out as a painter. The successful exhibition proved to everybody that Piho\'s swithing from graphical art and being the illustrator of children\'s books to becoming a painter (the turn that he had actually been planning already for years) was a success. Piho returned to the studio with a smirk and started painting. At the current exhibition are exposed his latest works, some of which have been accomplished only in the beginning of this year.Juss Piho\'s works are dazzling: it is simultaneously very easy and extremely complicated to understand them. In any case, Piho has detached far from the realistic style, where everything is painted so that it would be recognized and it could be copied back into reality, but we can still recognize a café-table being a café-table and cat\'s whiskers being cat\'s whiskers . Yet there exists a strange shift, a pas that has deliberately been made in a different manner. Piho is is not satisfied anymore only with logics and brilliant accomplishment of the work, he wants more, he demands it! Stories and short narratives, having their adventures in his paintings are not subject to rational analysis and correlations which are measured by a liner only disturb. We need daydreams, fantasies, dreams, everything that is slightly strange and weird, not very well understandable and yet a little bit comprehensible. Still, we never get to the same starting platform from which the artist has started. Piho seems to be saying \"The number of untold stories is so big that there is enough left for everyone, I myself do not certainly know every story\", holding his pipe cosily in the corner of his mouth.

Painting of Juss Piho strike immediately the eye with their bright colours, but while stepping closer, we notice that actually none of the colours seems to look the way we are used to. Green has gone to visit red, blue talks to yellow and even white - last hope of those in favour of clear borders - is not just white, but is entangled in  layers. Pieces of furniture , architectural angles and cornices glow sweet light, resembling milky fog, being there and disappearing at the same time...

We can really say that Piho\'s works remind us of the nostalgic and romantic spirit of Parisian cafés in the beginning of the previous century. Careless atmosphere is reflected in every Piho\'s work, emphasizing once again the necessity to glance at the world with a smirk and whistle while strolling peacefully into the white...