Rey Julien | Contemporary Artist: Artworks & Biography
Rey Julien
- France
Painter
- Best-sellers' artworks
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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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209 Artworks
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Indochine
19 x 19 cm180 €Rey Julien
Sovereign
100 x 100 cm3.150 €Rey Julien
Moving on
19 x 19 cm180 €Rey Julien
Sur les quais
80 x 80 cm2.120 €Rey Julien
Voyages
13 x 13 cm120 €Rey Julien
STYAMPEDE
80 x 80 cm2.120 €Rey Julien
Jonque
13 x 13 cm120 €- Sold
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Changes
19 x 19 cm180 € - Sold
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Solar Flair
80 x 80 cm2.120 € Rey Julien
Traveling
25 x 25 cm285 €Rey Julien
Souvenirs
25 x 25 cm285 €Rey Julien
Hongaï
100 x 100 cm3.150 €Rey Julien
In love with you
25 x 25 cm285 €Rey Julien
Early Morning
36 x 36 cm495 €Rey Julien
Pins
13 x 13 cm120 €Rey Julien
Stampede
40 x 120 cm1.550 €Rey Julien
Ville de Lyon
36 x 36 cm495 €Rey Julien
Reveal
13 x 13 cm120 €Rey Julien
On the run
50 x 50 cm965 €Rey Julien
Stampede
25 x 25 cm285 €Rey Julien
Hôtel-Dieu
120 x 40 cm1.550 €Rey Julien
Dies Irae
25 x 25 cm285 €Rey Julien
Beautiful city
80 x 80 cm2.120 €Rey Julien
Remente
50 x 50 cm965 €Rey Julien
Instinct
50 x 50 cm965 €Rey Julien
Memories
80 x 80 cm2.120 €Rey Julien
Tarak
120 x 40 cm1.550 €Rey Julien
My valentine
19 x 19 cm180 €Rey Julien
Alchimia
120 x 40 cm1.550 €Rey Julien
Rendez-vous lyonnais
120 x 40 cm1.550 €Rey Julien
Origins
120 x 40 cm1.550 €Rey Julien
Crossfire
36 x 36 cm495 €Rey Julien
Olivier en Grèce
19 x 19 cm180 €Rey Julien
Ekombre
100 x 100 cm3.150 €Rey Julien
Rendez-vous
13 x 13 cm120 €Rey Julien
Misty
36 x 36 cm495 €Rey Julien
Soleil et Lune
80 x 80 cm2.120 €Rey Julien
fith s avenue
19 x 19 cm180 €Rey Julien
Manna Hatta
80 x 80 cm2.120 €Rey Julien
Flat iron
19 x 19 cm180 €Rey Julien
Fantastic
36 x 36 cm495 €- Sold
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We own the night
80 x 80 cm2.120 € Rey Julien
Mistral
50 x 50 cm965 €- Sold
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Amandier
19 x 19 cm180 € - Sold
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Olivier en Provence
13 x 13 cm120 € Rey Julien
Jungle
19 x 19 cm180 €Rey Julien
Ombres
25 x 25 cm285 €- Sold
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Expedition
25 x 25 cm285 € Rey Julien
Mystery
80 x 80 cm2.120 €Rey Julien
City night
13 x 13 cm120 €Rey Julien
Thinking
25 x 25 cm285 €Rey Julien
Spirit
36 x 36 cm495 €Rey Julien
Artemis
100 x 100 cm3.150 €Rey Julien
night star
36 x 36 cm495 €- Sold
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Galaxy
80 x 80 cm2.120 € Rey Julien
Manna-hatta
80 x 80 cm2.120 €Rey Julien
be alone
19 x 19 cm180 €Rey Julien
Souvenirs
80 x 80 cm2.120 €- Sold
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Terra Nova
80 x 80 cm2.120 € Rey Julien
Golden tree
13 x 13 cm120 €