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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Rey Julien
Night view
19 x 19 cm185 EURRey Julien
fresh
19 x 19 cm185 EURRey Julien
Shiny in the rain
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
Memories
25 x 25 cm285 EURRey Julien
A peaceful world
19 x 19 cm185 EURRey Julien
Les vélos
19 x 19 cm185 EURRey Julien
White Winter
25 x 25 cm285 EURRey Julien
Sapin
25 x 25 cm285 EURRey Julien
Take a trip
13 x 13 cm115 EURRey Julien
Simplon
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
Journey
25 x 25 cm285 EURRey Julien
Frégate
25 x 25 cm285 EURRey Julien
Day Dream
50 x 50 cm1.200 EURRey Julien
Beautiful city
80 x 80 cm2.150 EURRey Julien
Mistral
50 x 50 cm1.200 EURRey Julien
Rendez-vous
13 x 13 cm115 EURRey Julien
Night Call
100 x 100 cm3.100 EURRey Julien
Alpha
80 x 80 cm2.150 EURRey Julien
With you
25 x 25 cm285 EURRey Julien
Dawn
13 x 13 cm115 EURRey Julien
Thinking
25 x 25 cm285 EURRey Julien
My valentine
19 x 19 cm185 EURRey Julien
En Finlande
19 x 19 cm185 EURRey Julien
Ville de Lyon
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
Jungle
19 x 19 cm185 EURRey Julien
Voyage
100 x 100 cm3.100 EURRey Julien
fith s avenue
19 x 19 cm185 EURRey Julien
Be there
13 x 13 cm115 EURRey Julien
Crossfire
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
Shade
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
Voyager
25 x 25 cm285 EURRey Julien
Welcome to Heaven
25 x 25 cm285 EURRey Julien
Sampan
13 x 13 cm115 EURRey Julien
Indochine
19 x 19 cm185 EURRey Julien
Ce matin là
13 x 13 cm115 EURRey Julien
Meeting
25 x 25 cm285 EURRey Julien
Navigation
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
Pins
13 x 13 cm115 EURRey Julien
feeling
13 x 13 cm115 EURRey Julien
Fantastic
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
Dear you
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
Souvenirs
25 x 25 cm285 EURRey Julien
Shades
19 x 19 cm185 EURRey Julien
Hotel Dieu
25 x 25 cm285 EURRey Julien
Fjord
13 x 13 cm115 EURRey Julien
Everlast
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
Reveal
13 x 13 cm115 EURRey Julien
Now_here
19 x 19 cm185 EURRey Julien
Stay close
13 x 13 cm115 EURRey Julien
Artemis
100 x 100 cm3.100 EURRey Julien
Sur les Hauteurs
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
The Lost
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
Moonlight
25 x 25 cm285 EURRey Julien
Element
40 x 120 cm1.650 EURRey Julien
City Night view
25 x 25 cm285 EURRey Julien
A l'ombre des buildings
19 x 19 cm185 EURRey Julien
be alone
19 x 19 cm185 EURRey Julien
Totem
80 x 80 cm2.150 EURRey Julien
Early Morning
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
lac
13 x 13 cm115 EUR