Jean de Groote. PhysisThe Belgian artist, Jean De Groote (b. 1955), often referred to as the "Painter of Silence", works with precision and restraint. His subjectsa red and blue eraser, a coat rack, a bare frameare 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