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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152 Artworks
Rey Julien
fresh
19 x 19 cm359 CADRey Julien
Stampede
100 x 100 cm5,799 CADRey Julien
Street life
100 x 100 cm5,799 CAD- Sold
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Mistral
25 x 25 cm589 CAD Rey Julien
Mystery
100 x 100 cm5,799 CADRey Julien
The end of doubt
36 x 36 cm999 CADRey Julien
Genesis
100 x 100 cm5,799 CADRey Julien
Hôtel-Dieu
120 x 40 cm2,899 CADRey Julien
Tarak
120 x 40 cm2,899 CADRey Julien
Origins
120 x 40 cm2,899 CADRey Julien
Indochine
19 x 19 cm359 CADRey Julien
Rendez-vous
13 x 13 cm239 CADRey Julien
High time
80 x 80 cm3,839 CADRey Julien
Epsylon
36 x 36 cm999 CADRey Julien
Eternity
36 x 36 cm999 CAD- Sold
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Talent designs
25 x 25 cm589 CAD Rey Julien
Souvenirs
80 x 80 cm3,839 CADRey Julien
Eternity
50 x 50 cm1,979 CADRey Julien
feeling
13 x 13 cm239 CADRey Julien
Voyage
50 x 50 cm1,979 CAD- Sold
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Sky light
40 x 120 cm2,899 CAD Rey Julien
Manna Hatta
80 x 80 cm3,839 CADRey Julien
Shiny in the rain
36 x 36 cm999 CADRey Julien
Down the road
120 x 120 cm7,699 CAD- Sold
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Seascape
19 x 19 cm359 CAD Rey Julien
Stampede
80 x 80 cm3,839 CADRey Julien
Appel de la nature
50 x 50 cm1,979 CADRey Julien
Symphony
36 x 36 cm999 CADRey Julien
Early Morning
36 x 36 cm999 CADRey Julien
Solar Flair
80 x 80 cm3,839 CADRey Julien
Les sommets
80 x 80 cm3,839 CADRey Julien
Infinity
36 x 36 cm999 CAD