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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Solar Flair
80 x 80 cm2.150 EUR Rey Julien
Stampede
40 x 120 cm1.650 EURRey Julien
Ekombre
100 x 100 cm3.100 EURRey Julien
Street life
100 x 100 cm3.100 EUR- Sold
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Olivier en Provence
36 x 36 cm480 EUR Rey Julien
Hôtel-Dieu
120 x 40 cm1.650 EUR- Sold
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Galaxy
80 x 80 cm2.150 EUR Rey Julien
Nova
100 x 100 cm3.100 EURRey Julien
Everlast
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
Anathema
50 x 50 cm1.200 EURRey Julien
Venise
25 x 25 cm285 EURRey Julien
Dear you
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
Element
40 x 120 cm1.650 EUR- Sold
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Gallion
13 x 13 cm115 EUR Rey Julien
fall of light
19 x 19 cm185 EURRey Julien
on the top
19 x 19 cm185 EURRey Julien
Hightower
80 x 80 cm2.150 EUR- Sold
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A l'ombre de l'arbre
25 x 25 cm285 EUR - Sold
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Expedition
25 x 25 cm285 EUR Rey Julien
lac
13 x 13 cm115 EUR- Sold
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Lac
19 x 19 cm185 EUR Rey Julien
Misty
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
Be with me
80 x 80 cm2.150 EURRey Julien
Voyager
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
Souvenirs
120 x 40 cm1.650 EURRey Julien
Down the road
120 x 120 cm4.250 EUR- Sold
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Changes
19 x 19 cm185 EUR Rey Julien
Now_here
19 x 19 cm185 EUR