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
Rey Julien
Shades
80 x 80 cm2.120 €Rey Julien
Stampede
100 x 100 cm3.150 €Rey Julien
The Lost
36 x 36 cm495 €- Sold
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Lac
19 x 19 cm180 € Rey Julien
on the top
19 x 19 cm180 €Rey Julien
Souvenirs
120 x 40 cm1.550 €- Sold
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Promise of the Unknown
13 x 13 cm120 € Rey Julien
En Finlande
19 x 19 cm180 €Rey Julien
Night view
19 x 19 cm180 €Rey Julien
Indochine
19 x 19 cm180 €Rey Julien
Here I am
40 x 120 cm1.550 €Rey Julien
Eternity
50 x 50 cm965 €- Sold
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Artefact
80 x 80 cm2.120 € Rey Julien
Escape
25 x 25 cm285 €Rey Julien
Voyager
25 x 25 cm285 €Rey Julien
Infinity
80 x 80 cm2.120 €Rey Julien
Shade
36 x 36 cm495 €- Sold
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Breeze
13 x 13 cm120 € Rey Julien
We own the night
100 x 100 cm3.150 €Rey Julien
Dear you
36 x 36 cm495 €Rey Julien
Avant la Tempête
80 x 80 cm2.120 €Rey Julien
Milenium
120 x 40 cm1.550 €Rey Julien
Rendez-vous
25 x 25 cm285 €Rey Julien
My dream
36 x 36 cm495 €Rey Julien
Gallion
80 x 80 cm2.120 €Rey Julien
Still here
36 x 36 cm495 €Rey Julien
we own the night
25 x 25 cm285 €- Sold
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Olivier en Provece
25 x 25 cm285 € Rey Julien
Totem
80 x 80 cm2.120 €