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"The Art of Lacquer in Pure Art"

The art of Frédéric Halbreich explores emotion, material, and inner landscapes, offering a poetic dialogue between form, light, and human sensitivity.

 

Frédéric Halbreich evokes the great mystery of nature with both power and elegance. In a silent dialogue with the stars, his work reveals an infinite, almost mystical intimacy.

 

And this realm is also that of an inhabited silence which, for this artist fascinated by music, is to be found in meta-sonority, just as the luminescences enlightening his black lacquers are a meta-light.
 
Suggestions which are like many unreal draperies, carrying invitations to guess what may lie hidden behind those immaterial veils, for want of being able to lift them.

 

To the artist, the painting is not only on a simple surface, it is an object that artist creates with complex texture and form.
 

Frédéric Halbreich continuously pushes the boundaries of mixed media, exploring the very limits of material and perception. Through successive layers of oil—sometimes interwoven with acrylic—he achieves a singular lacquered effect, both luminous and profound.

 

His surfaces, whether aluminium, wood, or canvas, are never mere supports; they become active participants in the work. Light glides, reflects, and settles within the layers, revealing a depth that feels almost alive. In this delicate tension between control and experimentation, Frédéric Halbreich creates a language of matter that is both tactile and immaterial, where each piece becomes an experience rather than an image.

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  • Aptere VII, ein abstraktes Gemälde von Frédéric Halbreich, schwarz-weiß-braun, kalligrafisch, modern, zeitgenössisch, Ölmalerei, ausgestellt in der Galerie Art Yi in Brüssel.
    APTÈRE VII
  • Peinture abstraite Aluminoide Elephantine or et noir, laque sur métal, peinture calligraphique moderne, peinture contemporaine, art exposé à la galerie Art Yi à Bruxelles
    Aluminoïde Elephantine
  • VENETUS LEO AD OPUS abstract painting of Frédéric Halbreich black and white and blue calligraphic contemporary painting oil painting lacquer on wood at Art Yi gallery in Brussels
    VENETUS LEO AD OPUS
  • Aluminoide Hephaistos gold and black abstract painting of lacquer on metal calligraphic painting modern painting contemporary painting art at Art Yi gallery in Brussels and bronze sculpture Visionary with light of Lieven d'Haese
    Aluminoïde Hephaïstos
  • aptere XII abstract painting of Frédéric Halbreich blue white and brown calligraphic contemporary painting oil painting lacquer on wood at Art Yi gallery in Brussels
    APTÈRE XII
  • Aptere IX, abstract schilderij van Frédéric Halbreich, blauw, wit en bruin, kalligrafisch, hedendaags schilderij, olieverf op hout, lak op hout, in de Art Yi galerie in Brussel.
    APTÈRE IX
  • Aptere XI, tableau abstrait de Frédéric Halbreich, peinture calligraphique contemporaine bleue, blanche et brune, huile sur bois laquée, exposée à la galerie Art Yi à Bruxelles.
    APTÈRE XI
  • dans la juvaquatre abstract painting of Frédéric Halbreich black and white calligraphic contemporary painting oil painting lacquer on wood at Art Yi gallery in Brussels
    Dans la juvaquatre
  • Diaphanum VI, peinture abstraite de Frédéric Halbreich, peinture calligraphique en noir, blanc et brun, peinture moderne, peinture contemporaine, peinture à l'huile, art exposé à la galerie Art Yi à Bruxelles, sculpture en bronze de danseuse, sculpture Primavera d'Isabel Miramontes
    DIAPHANUM VI
  • Diaphanum VII abstract painting of Frédéric Halbreich black white and brown and blue calligraphic painting modern painting contemporary painting oil painting art at Art Yi gallery in Brussels
    DIAPHANUM VII
  • aptere I abstract painting of Frédéric Halbreich black white and blue and brown calligraphic painting modern painting contemporary painting oil painting art at Art Yi gallery in Brussels
    APTÈRE I
  • Aptère VI, ein abstraktes Gemälde von Frédéric Halbreich, schwarz-weiß und braun, kalligrafische zeitgenössische Malerei, Öl auf Lack auf Holz, ausgestellt in der Galerie Art Yi in Brüssel.
    Aptère VI
  • orféo, Frédéric Halbreich abstract acrylic lacquer black and white painting
    L'Orféo
  • Aperception abstract painting of Frédéric Halbreich black and white and brown calligraphic contemporary painting oil painting lacquer on wood at Art Yi gallery in Brussels
    Aperception 6 (Phase 2)
  • footprint Frédéric Halbreich black and white abstract painting acrylic oil on canvas
    Figure d'Empreinte X / Footprint X
  • nakgakessou Frédéric Halbreich black and white abstract oil lacquer painting on canvas
    Nakgakessou
  • empreinte V peinture abstraite de Frédéric Halbreich peinture contemporaine calligraphique noir et blanc et marron peinture à l'huile laque sur bois à la galerie Art Yi à Bruxelles
    Figure d'Empreinte V / Footprint V
  • ALUMINOÏDE Pigmenten en fotonen, Frédéric Halbreich, abstracte schilderkunst oosterse kunst lak inkt kunst zwart en goud penseel schilderen ART YI-galerij Kunstgalerij Brussel
    Aluminoïde Pigments et Photons
  • Aluminodrame abstract painting of Frédéric Halbreich red and silver calligraphic painting modern painting contemporary painting oil painting art at Art Yi gallery in Brussels
    ALUMINODRAME
  • perséphone Frédéric Halbreich abstrait laque acrylique peinture noir et blanc
    Persephone
Biography
Frédéric Halbreich
An International Reputed French-Belgian Painter and Poet
Frédéric Halbreich, born in Paris on August 28, 1962, is a French-Belgian painter, a poet and a musician.
 
Frédéric Halbreich begins to paint around 16 years old. Self-taught, however, he went through the Academy of Fine Arts in Watermael-Boitsfort and continued his studies in Paris. 
 
An exhibition of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Foundation, which he visited in Paris in 1978, revealed his vocation to him. There followed a long break, during which he worked out songs (lyrics and music) which he ended up performing himself, first under the name of David Rebel, then under his real name, until 1996. Several records were released.
 
His trajectory and his work on lacquer well underway, we can read in A. Nardon, Socles et cimaises 2007: “This difficult technique the artist went to learn in Russia and the work of long patience did the rest. »
 
Each time one believes the artist has reached the extreme limit of his own explorable universe, he springs off even further on to a new stage of this quest,  whose virtual field, stretched towards the asymptote of God’s Absolute, has no further limit than that state of grace called inspiration.
 

• Exhibitions:

Since 1997, Frédéric Halbreich has exhibited his paintings all over the world: Belgium (Brussels) of course, but also the United States (New York), Canada (Montreal), France (Paris), Switzerland (Geneva), Israel (Tel Aviv), Portugal (at the GULBENKIAN foundation in Lisbon).

 

Included in the collections of five-star hotels in New York, Japan, and Dubai.

 

Since 2022, Art Yī becomes the new art gallery of Frédéric Halbreich in Belgium.

 

Our latest exhibitions :

2026: "Aptère", exhibition, Brussels, Belgium

2023: Luxembourg Art Fair, Luxembourg

2023: Affordable Art Fair, Brussels, Belgium

2022: "Alumnoïde", group exhibition, Brussels, Belgium

 

2022: Intempo by Luc Leroi - Bredel (Grand Duchy of Luxembourg)

2021: Intempo by Luc Leroi - Bredel (Grand Duchy of Luxembourg)

2019: Samin Wonen - Roeselare (Belgium)

2018: Nao Expo - Verviers (Belgium)

2017: Exhibitions in different galleries, Brussels (Belgium)

2017: Château de Waleffe - (Belgium)

1996-2016: Permanent exhibitions in great numbers of galleries - Brussels - (Belgium)

2015: Château Mottin - Hannut (Belgium)

2013: Balâtre (Belgium)

2012: Lineart - Art Gent - Ghent (Belgium)

2012: Art Nocturne Knocke  - Knokke-Heist (Belgium)

2010: The Expressers - Paris (France)

2009: Brussels (Belgium)

2009: Berck (France)

2003: Private exhibition - Geneva (Switzerland)

2002: Knokke-Heist (Belgium)

2002: Private exhibition - Geneva (Switzerland)

2001: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation - Lisbon (Portugal)

2001: Geneva (Switzerland)

2000: Flemish Cultural Center De Krikelaart - Brussels (Belgium)

1999: International Fair of Contemporary Arts - Luxembourg City (Grand Duchy of Luxembourg)

1999: Exhibition of the 30 Abbeys of Val-Saint-Lambert - Liège (Belgium)

1998: Simon Blais Gallery - Montreal (Canada)

 

• Press & Publications:

- April 24, 1997: The Bulletin, C. Moffet.
- February-March 1998: Crescendo no 33, cover (M3750-33).
- November 7-8, 1998: Catalog of the Schaerbeek exhibition.
- March 1999: Arts Antiques Auctions no. 299, A. Hustache
- April 7, 1999: La Libre Belgique - La Libre Culture Page 13, Cl.Lorent.
- April 15, 1999: The Bulletin, C. Moffet.
- April 1999: Regards - Bruxelles notre ville, D Baumerder.
- May 21, 2001: 25th Lisbon Contemporary Music Meeting, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
- May 21-June 3, 2001: 25th Gulbenkian Encounters of Contemporary Music, P&A Woolf.
- 2003-2004 season: With, Harry Halbreich.
- 19 March 2006: Schaerbeek infos no 25 - The voluptuous world of master lacquerer, X. Mouffe.
- April 2007: Socles et Cimaises 2 - Exhibition reviews, A. Nardon.
- March 24, 2007: Le Soir - Victory p. 35 - Lacquered impressions, A. Maziers.
- December 2007: Regards no 653 - Laques, G.Kamps
- December 2007: Event no. 367 - Lacquers by FH at the Espace arts Galerie, S.Tarin.
- December 2007: Art.Expo no 64.
- May 2009: Collect AAA no 400 - Material effects, A. Hustache.
- May 2009: Contact J no 225 - A black light in the white night, D. Goldberg.
- May 2009: Regards no 687 - A black light in the white night, D. Baumerder.
- May 22, 2009: La Libre Belgique - Free Arts - A black and brilliant gesture, Cl. Lorent.
- 7 December 2009: Journal de Télé Bruxelles - meeting with Frédéric Halbreich.
- March 2010: Regards no 707 - Noire Luminescence, G.Kamps
March 2010: La Libre Belgique - Free Arts Frédéric Halbreich - Painting, (Paris Les Expresseurs), Cl.Lorent.
March 2010: Contact J no 233 - Noire Luminescence, D.Goldberg.
March 2010: Contact J no 248 - Frédéric Halbreich - artistic double shot - Ground Views / Lacquers & Aluminescences.
March 2012: Centrale no 323 - Lacquers and aluminescences, D.B.
April 2012: Regards no 753 - Poems/Frédéric Halbreich "Views from the Ground"
May 2012: Collect AAA no 427 - Frédéric Halbreich / "Lacquers & Aluminescences"
July 2012: General Review June-July 2012 6/7 - Exhibitions / Frédéric Halbreich, A M. Hamesse.
December 2012: Sabam Magazine no 71 oct-nov-december 2012 - "Frédéric Halbreich poet of forms and matter", S. Godefroid.
September 2013: Collect AAA no 438 - Frédéric Halbreich / Halbreich in Balastra, GG.
September 13, 2013: L'Avenir no.? Lacquer, light, lightness, passion -
September 25, 2013: Vlan no 39 Frédéric Halbreich exhibits at the Balastra - F.D. gallery.
May 20, 2015: The Future: Random artistic inspiration from an incident - JP Morhet.
April 2018: Collect AAA no 480 - Frédéric Halbreich exhibits at Nao Expo, GG.
April 2018: Vlan n° - Nao Expo immerses us in the darkness of Frédéric Halbreich, Manon Dumoulin.
May/June 2018 - "Halbreich, Parisian painter", La Référence no 128.

 

• Music:
- What's left? 1983 WEA
- Good evening Anguish / Total delirium 1984 Santa Productions WEA (249 331-7/we 171)**

- Very far from here / Routine 1986 Julisa-Carrère (CA 171 13.952)
- Very far from here (maxi) 1986 Julisa-Carrère (CA 618 8.612)
- The Trace / Desire to leave 1987 VGM-Carrère (CA 171 14.345)
- The Trace (maxi) 1987 VGM-Carrère (CA 618 8.814)
- Titanica / Prison poison 1989 Non Stop Productions-Carrère (CA 171 14.755)

 

• Poetry:
- 2012: Views From The Ground - La Lettrine Culture Editions (ISBN 979-1090932067)
- 2013: Participation in the Brussels book fair with SABAM - Real-time writing of a short story: The Book Fair (Deadly writings at the book fair) (ISBN 978-2-8052-0199-8)
- 2019: Little fair of illusions - Editions Muse (ISBN 978-620-2-29517-8)

 

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