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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208 Artworks
Rey Julien
fall of light
19 x 19 cm185 EURRey Julien
Jungle
19 x 19 cm185 EURRey Julien
Flat iron
19 x 19 cm185 EURRey Julien
My valentine
19 x 19 cm185 EURRey Julien
Sur les Hauteurs
36 x 36 cm480 EUR- Sold
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Appel de la nature
50 x 50 cm1.200 EUR Rey Julien
Dies Irae
25 x 25 cm285 EURRey Julien
Sampan
13 x 13 cm115 EUR- Sold
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Terra Nova
80 x 80 cm2.150 EUR Rey Julien
Mystery
100 x 100 cm3.100 EURRey Julien
Voyager
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
Vol de nuit
80 x 80 cm2.150 EURRey Julien
under the light
19 x 19 cm185 EURRey Julien
Hongaï
100 x 100 cm3.100 EURRey Julien
Mistral
80 x 80 cm2.150 EURRey Julien
Face nord
25 x 25 cm285 EURRey Julien
Gallion
80 x 80 cm2.150 EUR- Sold
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Olivier en Provence
36 x 36 cm480 EUR Rey Julien
night star
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
Voyager
25 x 25 cm285 EURRey Julien
Tonkin
19 x 19 cm185 EURRey Julien
Shades
80 x 80 cm2.150 EURRey Julien
Fantastic
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
Ombres
25 x 25 cm285 EURRey Julien
Vol de nuit
80 x 80 cm2.150 EURRey Julien
Adret
19 x 19 cm185 EURRey Julien
Manna Hatta
80 x 80 cm2.150 EURRey Julien
Welcome to Heaven
25 x 25 cm285 EURRey Julien
on the top
19 x 19 cm185 EURRey Julien
Artemis
100 x 100 cm3.100 EURRey Julien
La ville s'endort
120 x 40 cm1.650 EURRey Julien
City night
13 x 13 cm115 EURRey Julien
Hightower
80 x 80 cm2.150 EURRey Julien
Pins
13 x 13 cm115 EURRey Julien
be alone
19 x 19 cm185 EURRey Julien
Epsylon
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
Thinking
25 x 25 cm285 EURRey Julien
Escape
25 x 25 cm285 EUR- Sold
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Artefact
2.150 EUR Rey Julien
Hopeful
13 x 13 cm115 EURRey Julien
Symphony
36 x 36 cm480 EUR- Sold
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Breeze
13 x 13 cm115 EUR - Sold
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Olivier en Provece
25 x 25 cm285 EUR Rey Julien
Early Morning
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
Be there
13 x 13 cm115 EURRey Julien
Eternity
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
En Finlande
19 x 19 cm185 EURRey Julien
Super nova
50 x 50 cm1.200 EURRey Julien
Street life
100 x 100 cm3.100 EUR- Sold
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Discovery
13 x 13 cm115 EUR Rey Julien
Traveling
25 x 25 cm285 EURRey Julien
Rendez-vous
25 x 25 cm285 EURRey Julien
Shade
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
Everlast
36 x 36 cm480 EUR- Sold
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Amandier
19 x 19 cm185 EUR Rey Julien
Souvenirs
80 x 80 cm2.150 EURRey Julien
Ville de Lyon
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
Avant la Tempête
80 x 80 cm2.150 EURRey Julien
Mistral
50 x 50 cm1.200 EURRey Julien
Venise
25 x 25 cm285 EUR