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The Belgian artist, Jean De Groote (b. 1955), often referred to as the "Painter of Silence", works with precision and restraint. His subjects—a red-and-blue eraser, a coat rack, a bare frame—are stripped of any overt narrative. They sit in quiet tension, as if caught between memory and forgetting, between form and disappearance.There is no sentimentality in his greys, no grand gestures in his palette. Instead, De Groote approaches his subjects with the same stoicism he carries in life. His objects, like his thoughts, are contained—offering only what is essential. In their silence, they refuse easy interpretation.His is a practice of reduction, paring down the image to its core. The light, when it falls, does not reveal what is hidden, but clarifies what is already there. A moment of clarity, not revelation. A brief suspension of time.De Groote’s paintings hold space for what is unsaid. In their restraint, they mirror the quiet resolve of a lone wolf, one who moves with purpose, indifferent to the noise of the world. To see a De Groote painting is to stand on the edge of an open field, where silence dominates and the horizon seems endless. It is a confrontation with the essence of things.