“I paint what appears between the visible and what escapes it.”
Jan de Flaubert is a French artist whose current work moves between digital painting, abstraction and figurative presence.
After many years devoted primarily to acrylic painting on canvas, his work gradually shifted towards the digital medium. This technical change has not erased his pictorial language: intense colours, irregular textures, mysterious signs, sinuous lines and fractures remain central to his compositions.
But new presences have appeared.
Faces, trees, houses, staircases, chairs and familiar objects emerge from the pictorial matter and sometimes seem to return into it. The boundary between figure and background becomes uncertain. What we recognize remains visible, yet no longer seems to belong entirely to ordinary reality.
Jan de Flaubert does not seek to give these images a fixed meaning. The signs crossing them belong to no known alphabet, and their forms offer no narrative that needs to be deciphered.
Instead, his paintings attempt to keep open a zone of uncertainty: a space between visible and invisible, presence and absence, reality and inner world.
Colour may be intense and luminous, yet the light it produces is not always reassuring.
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