ARTIST
FLOG
French artist working in screen printing, with a wider practice in painting built around his Human of Glass figures.
FLOG is the working name of Florian Gaborit, a French artist born in Cholet in 1984, who trained in graphic design in Nantes and still lives and works near the city. His paintings bring graffiti technique to studio work: aerosol alongside acrylic and oil, on canvas. His scenes are wordless and slightly uncanny, and they leave the viewer to supply the story. Sunrise (2025), the one work by him in the collection, is a 24-colour screen print published by GraffitiPrints, in an edition of 100. Two variants of the same image came out alongside it in editions of 10 each, and we chose the larger edition.
Sunrise
A small figure seen from behind, in a T-shirt and shorts, with a mallet in one hand, is building a sun on the wall in front of him, shard by shard. A few pieces still lie at his feet, waiting to be picked up and added. His head is a clear glass bowl and his arms and legs are marbled with colour. He is FLOG’s Human of Glass, the figure at the centre of his work since 2020, whose colour, in the artist’s telling, stands for the memories and feelings each of us carries.
The print is a 24-colour screen print on 300 gsm Somerset Satin, 88 × 68 cm, in an edition of 100, issued in October 2025. It is drawn from FLOG’s 2024 painting of the same name, in acrylic and spray paint on canvas. It was published by GraffitiPrints and printed at Goldmark Atelier, Ian and Jan Wilkinson’s workshop in Uppingham, England, which has printed for artists from Paula Rego to D*Face. Somerset is a mould-made, 100% cotton paper from St Cuthberts Mill in England, with four deckled edges. Its specification matches Martin Whatson’s Poise exactly: the same publisher, the same paper, the same 24 colours. André Schulze’s Kern Bouquet, from the same publisher, uses Somerset’s Velvet surface instead. Close up, the layering is visible where colours overlap. The thick, slightly textured sheet adds a surface of its own, and floating it in the frame keeps the deckled edges in view.
FLOG signs in pencil in the lower right margin. The edition number, 49/100, is pencilled at lower left, written inside GraffitiPrints’ circular blind stamp, with the slash drawn straight across the embossed ring, so that the publisher’s mark and the impression number read as a single notation.
Why this print is in the collection
FLOG’s work first came to our attention through a gallery we follow online. Sunrise itself came from GraffitiPrints, a publisher whose releases we buy from regularly. What stood out first was the colour: unusually bright, and composed with a graphic designer’s control.
The choice of edition was deliberate. GraffitiPrints released two variants alongside it, each in an edition of 10 and priced above the main run of 100. One prints the image in 25 colours on a deep burgundy ground, with the sun’s shards in gold leaf. The other prints it in 23 colours directly onto corroded brass, so the metal becomes the ground and no two impressions match. Neither is in the collection. On burgundy and on brass, the composition never quite sat right. On plain white it has room, and it holds up to being looked at every day, framed in white and floated on light grey.
Variants like these are common in screen printing, where a publisher can run one image onto different grounds, papers and even metal. Knowing how the process works makes it easier to judge what actually differs between them, and which differences matter to you.
FLOG’s wider practice
Florian Gaborit discovered drawing early, studied graphic design at the Pivaut school in Nantes, and worked across illustration and publishing before painting took over. The turning point came in 2020 with Human of Glass, the series that gave him a visual world of his own. It began as a single glass figure on a grey ground and has grown into a crowded, brightly coloured universe of childhood memories and pop-culture references. Alongside it he reworks the characters he grew up with, as a tribute to figures that drift away as we grow older and a way of marking the passage from childhood to adulthood.
His paintings combine aerosol, acrylic and oil on canvas, with particular care for the backgrounds, reflections and layers of transparency that make the glass figures read as glass. Recent solo shows include On Cloud Nine at Vins Gallery in Taipei (2024), where the painting behind Sunrise was first shown; Hand in Hand at Vertical Gallery in New York and A Window on the World at Dorothy Circus Gallery in London (both 2025); and Paréidolie at Mazel Galerie in Paris (2026). Solo shows with Vertical Gallery in Chicago and Mazel Galerie in Brussels are planned for 2027.
FLOG’s own site holds his paintings, drawings and limited editions, including all three versions of Sunrise, and his Instagram is the place to follow new work. New editions with GraffitiPrints are announced through the publisher, which is how Sunrise came to us.