Frédéric Halbreich Belge, 1962
Unique lacquer painting effect
10kg
39 3/8 x 39 3/8 in
• Free Worldwide Art Shipping (DDU)
• Professional Art Packing
• Full Insurance & Gallery Guarantee
• Certificate of Authenticity by Artist & Gallery
• Enquire a Welcome Offer for your 1st Collection
Plus d'images
-
(View a larger image of thumbnail 1
)
-
(View a larger image of thumbnail 2
)
-
(View a larger image of thumbnail 3
)
-
(View a larger image of thumbnail 4
)
-
(View a larger image of thumbnail 5
)
-
(View a larger image of thumbnail 6
)
-
(View a larger image of thumbnail 7
)
-
(View a larger image of thumbnail 8
)
-
(View a larger image of thumbnail 9
)
-
(View a larger image of thumbnail 10
)
-
(View a larger image of thumbnail 11
)
Aluminoïde Elephantine by Frédéric Halbreich is not just a painting—it is a presence.
At first glance, it radiates like a sheet of molten gold. But as you move, as the light shifts, the surface awakens. The lacquered aluminium becomes a mirror, capturing reflections, absorbing space, and returning it transformed. The work lives with the day: luminous at dawn, deep and meditative at dusk, endlessly changing—never fixed.
The black gestures, bold and grounded, evoke a quiet vision—something elemental, almost architectural. There is weight here, a sense of foundation, like stacked forms or ancient structures. And yet, nothing is rigid. Everything flows, breathes, vibrates.
Halbreich does not simply paint—he sculpts with light and matter. The aluminium is not a support; it is an active force. The lacquer effect creates a skin that is both reflective and profound, where depth appears beneath the surface, like memory embedded in metal.
Placed on a wall, Aluminoïde Elephantine becomes a central piece—almost a sculpture. It anchors the architecture, interacts with volumes, and reshapes the perception of the space. It does not sit within an interior—it defines it.
This is a unique work. Irreplaceable. A piece that evolves with you, with your space, with time itself.
To acquire it is not just to own an artwork—it is to live with a presence.
Provenance
We know the works of Frédéric Halbreich in lacquer, medium of which he is indeed the only artist to have developed his own technique of lacquer and to sparkle the preciousness in the pure art of his abstraction.
The material support of this journey towards elsewhere is lacquer, a means of expression that sets Frédéric Halbreich apart from any painter past and present. It also differentiates him from the great models and references such as Franz Kline and Pierre Soulages.
"The art of lacquer in pure art".
What interests him is the light.
In his lacquers, he brings it out from inside the painting, through the vector of transparency.
He calls "sacrophage" the support on which he creates his lacquers.
Besides these, there are his canvases: oils and acrylics where he derives his expression more from gesture.
Like lacquer work, these pictorial layers (pigments) – ten or more in number – each require an appropriate time to dry. Then follow new meticulous sanding intended to eliminate scratches or accidents.
At the same time, lacquer acts like a mirror, in which the spectator may discover a reality far beyond his own reflection, even a possible answer to his own existential questions.
As an indispensable counterpoint to that mirror which sends the pictorial even beyond abstraction, here are mat surfaces, paradoxically less black in their opacity.