De Sublieme Alleenheid = Sublime Solitude = La Sublime Solitude by Jan de Maesschalck

Guislain (Ghent), Berardo Collection Museum (Lisbon), De Warande (Turnhout) and Museum of Elsene/Ixelles (Brussels). His work has featured in group shows at Phoenix Art Museum, Bozar (Brussels), Musée d’Art Contemporain (Marseilles), Museum Dr.

Jan De Maesschalck has had solo exhibitions at Münsterland Festival (Billerbeck) and Mu.ZEE (Ostend). The tension lies in the artist’s fascination with light and shadow and his eye for detail. His work is subtle and highly suggestive. De Maesschalk often depicts women in isolated settings and specific architectural spaces, subjects that create an impression of intimacy or melancholy. In the creation of his paintings, he maintains the technical precision and speed of the drawing thanks to his use of fast-drying acrylic paint. The images of the figures he portrays are taken from the media, from which he then selects specific fragments to create his own images. He started his career as a draughtsman for different newspapers and (art) magazines. Jan De Maesschalck is a Belgian figurative painter who observes, selects, interprets and fantasizes.

1958 in Sint-Gillis-Waas (BE), lives and works in Stekene (BE). The book and the act of reading constitute a fixed topos in his work but when I look at his paintings, I never think of his patrons: although he is also an illustrator, Jan De Maesschalck has long been an autonomous planetoid. As happy as possible in a self-imposed isolation. Jan De Maesschalck often paints secluded girls and women, reading on their own, steeped in a parallel world, submerged with bated breath. Sublime solitude is something different from utter isolation. Ce livre presente une selection personnelle de l'oeuvre peint de cet artiste, complete par textes de Rudy Vandendaele, Bernard Dewulf, Marc Ruyters en Jeroen Laureyns. Dit najaar verschijnt 'BOEK', een persoonlijke selectie uit het werk dat de kunstenaar de laatste jaren schilderde, aangevuld met teksten van Rudy Vandendaele, Bernard Dewulf, Marc Ruyters en Jeroen Laureyns.

Van deze illustrator-schilder verscheen bij Oogachtend in 2002 'Jan De Maesschalck', een verzameling van illustraties rond het thema boeken, gemaakt in opdracht van de krant De Morgen. Paperback, 260x210mm, 128p, throughout colour illustrations, English/ French/ Dutch (NL) edition.

De Sublieme Alleenheid = Sublime Solitude = La Sublime Solitude by Jan de Maesschalck