Olivier Julia

Olivier Julia (1952, France) graduated with a BA in Graphic Art from the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Today he holds a tutoring position at the same academy besides practicing as an independent artist.

Originally his work consists of sober graphic art and monumental drawings, but in more recent years he has explored the dimensional possibilities of graphic art. He creates three-dimensional objects from wood, often painted in subdued colours that are characteristic of his earlier work: differentiated shades of grey and deep blacks. The work of Olivier Julia is focussed on the subtle interaction of closed versus open, of vertical versus horizontal and of light versus dark.

His work is exhibited internationally and is part of many renowned corporate and public collections such as ING, KPN, TNT Post, the Royal Library of Brussels and the Archives of the City of Amsterdam. His work was selected for the main Dutch abstract-geometric and constructivist art exhibition Symposion 2015.