SEMIRAMIS Painting

Frédéric Halbreich, born in Paris on August 28, 1962, is a French-Belgian painter, a poet and a musician. Frédéric 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 Paris1. During this period he briefly dabbled in academic teaching at the Watermael-Boitsfort Academy, notably during Roger Someville's monumental art course. 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.