At the age of almost 40 Yahn Janou can look back on a remarkable career as a painter and on an increasing treasure of paintings and experience. The smell of benzene lingers in his studio as in a paddock, some squeezed tubes are on the floor next to a palette looking as if they were the remains of a recent dispute between indigo and a shade of sundown red.

Janou plays with his materials. He divides the picture into areas, places motifs, puts several layers on top of each other in order to reveal his ideas to us, but leaves the starting point open in one corner, a piece of bare canvas.
This is no realistic type of art and just because of this it exists. The artist directs his view on the events surrounding him. The simple result reflects a construction, a structuring of the object. It is part of the emotion and breathes life into the picture.

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