Rey Julien | Contemporary Artist: Artworks & Biography
Rey Julien
- France
Painter
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Self-taught, I learnt by integrating and taking inspiration from various cultures, through my discoveries.
Although he has achromatopsia (absence of color vision), Julien Rey takes us on a journey through his paintings to urban landscapes. Julien Rey's story begins like all great stories: with an impossible dream. With achromatopsia, the artist sees only in black and white. Yet, this condition did not prevent him from traveling to the borders of Burma, from changing his life (he became a Buddhist monk there) or from embarking on art. From his trip to Burma, he brought back a perfect mastery of gold leaf, a characteristic element of his work. His technique based on lacquer worked with a knife and gold leaf inlays places light at the center of his works. Marked by Zen philosophy, he creates minimal compositions that appear as suspended moments, poetic pauses.
His unique and individual technique using varnish worked with a knife and gold leaf inlays put light at the heart of his works, playing with areas of shadow and brightness, slivers of black and gold. His representations of urban landscapes thus confront obscurity and light in contrasted compositions with impressionist atmospheres. Trying to inspire, feel and self-reflect, the artist is not looking for a true re-transcription of what he sees, but on the contrary wishes to capture and materialise with games of shadows and light the "aesthetic link between finesse and rigour, movement and perspective, emptiness and fullness." In the end, it constitutes the heart of reality but distances itself from it the most.
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- 2020Vernissage, dedication at the CdA gallery in Shanghai. Exhibition in about thirty galleries around the worldShanghai, China
- 2018Public Prize, International Contemporary Art Fair of MarseilleMarseille, France
- 2016Start at Carré d'ArtistesAmsterdam, Netherlands (the)
- 2014Grand Prize of the Jury and Guest of Honor-Gordes, France
- 1985BirthParis, France
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149 Artworks
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Alchimia
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
Everlast
25 x 25 cm280 EUR- Sold
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After the rain
25 x 25 cm280 EUR - Sold
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raining Day
13 x 13 cm110 EUR Rey Julien
Here I am
40 x 120 cm1.650 EUR- Sold
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Talent designs
25 x 25 cm280 EUR Rey Julien
Terra nova
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURRey Julien
Dear you
36 x 36 cm480 EUR- Sold
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Sur les toits de Lyon
80 x 80 cm2.100 EUR Rey Julien
Stampede
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURRey Julien
Spirit
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
Les sommets
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURRey Julien
Anathema
50 x 50 cm1.150 EURRey Julien
Tarak
120 x 40 cm1.650 EURRey Julien
Genesis
100 x 100 cm3.050 EURRey Julien
Köln
25 x 25 cm280 EURRey Julien
Crossfire
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
Any where you go
19 x 19 cm180 EURRey Julien
Rendez-vous lyonnais
120 x 40 cm1.650 EURRey Julien
Rendez-vous
13 x 13 cm110 EURRey Julien
Welcome to Heaven
25 x 25 cm280 EURRey Julien
Rough
25 x 25 cm280 EURRey Julien
Galaxy
80 x 80 cm2.100 EUR- Sold
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You and I
19 x 19 cm180 EUR Rey Julien
Super nova
50 x 50 cm1.150 EURRey Julien
White Winter
25 x 25 cm280 EURRey Julien
Stampede
100 x 100 cm3.050 EURRey Julien
Appel de la nature
50 x 50 cm1.150 EURRey Julien
We own the night
80 x 80 cm2.100 EUR