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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(205 Artworks)
205 Artworks
Rey Julien
The Beauty of the Night
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Rey Julien
North Face
80 x 80 cmHKD 31,900Rey Julien
Tempest
80 x 80 cmHKD 31,900Rey Julien
Memories
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600Rey Julien
Galaxy
80 x 80 cmHKD 31,900Rey Julien
A peaceful world
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400Rey Julien
Galaxy
100 x 100 cmHKD 52,800Rey Julien
Voyage
50 x 50 cmHKD 15,400Rey Julien
Levant
100 x 100 cmHKD 52,800Rey Julien
Les vélos
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400Rey Julien
White Winter
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600Rey Julien
Terra nova
80 x 80 cmHKD 31,900- Sold
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The night start
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100 Rey Julien
Any where you go
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400Rey Julien
Infinity
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Rey Julien
Sapin
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600Rey Julien
DELTA
100 x 100 cmHKD 52,800Rey Julien
fresh
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400Rey Julien
Souvenirs
80 x 80 cmHKD 31,900Rey Julien
Amandier
80 x 80 cmHKD 31,900Rey Julien
Take a trip
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600Rey Julien
Exodus
80 x 80 cmHKD 31,900Rey Julien
Element
100 x 100 cmHKD 52,800Rey Julien
Manna hatta
50 x 50 cmHKD 15,400Rey Julien
Shiny in the rain
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Rey Julien
Alpha
100 x 100 cmHKD 52,800Rey Julien
Simplon
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Rey Julien
Köln
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600Rey Julien
Stampede
80 x 80 cmHKD 31,900Rey Julien
Ombres
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600Rey Julien
Face nord
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600Rey Julien
STYAMPEDE
80 x 80 cmHKD 31,900Rey Julien
Flat iron
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400Rey Julien
Rough
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600Rey Julien
Artemis
100 x 100 cmHKD 52,800Rey Julien
Vol de nuit
80 x 80 cmHKD 31,900- Sold
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Imagine
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100 Rey Julien
Vanish
100 x 100 cmHKD 52,800Rey Julien
Totem
80 x 80 cmHKD 31,900Rey Julien
Navigation
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Rey Julien
Everlast
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Rey Julien
Souvenirs
120 x 40 cmHKD 26,400Rey Julien
we own the night
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600Rey Julien
Meeting
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600- Sold
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Jungle
120 x 40 cmHKD 26,400 Rey Julien
Memories
80 x 80 cmHKD 31,900Rey Julien
Flatiron
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400Rey Julien
Rendez-vous
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600Rey Julien
Early Morning
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Rey Julien
Thinking
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600- Sold
Rey Julien
Expedition
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600 Rey Julien
With you
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600Rey Julien
Shades
80 x 80 cmHKD 31,900Rey Julien
Gallion
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600Rey Julien
Milenium
120 x 40 cmHKD 26,400Rey Julien
Indochine
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400Rey Julien
Reveal
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600Rey Julien
Au soleil
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400Rey Julien
Mystery
80 x 80 cmHKD 31,900Rey Julien
Spirit
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100