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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(149 Artworks)
149 Artworks
Rey Julien
Mystery
80 x 80 cm2.150 EURRey Julien
Remente
50 x 50 cm1.200 EURRey Julien
Ekombre
100 x 100 cm3.100 EURRey Julien
Dies Irae
25 x 25 cm285 EURRey Julien
Voyage
100 x 100 cm3.100 EURRey Julien
Voyager
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
Nova
100 x 100 cm3.100 EURRey Julien
Soleil et Lune
80 x 80 cm2.150 EURRey Julien
Terra Nova
100 x 100 cm3.100 EUR- Sold
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City Never Sleep
25 x 25 cm285 EUR Rey Julien
Souvenirs
120 x 40 cm1.650 EURRey Julien
Levant
100 x 100 cm3.100 EURRey Julien
Elégance
80 x 80 cm2.150 EURRey Julien
Skyline
120 x 40 cm1.650 EURRey Julien
STYAMPEDE
80 x 80 cm2.150 EUR- Sold
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Mistral
120 x 120 cm4.250 EUR Rey Julien
Be with me
80 x 80 cm2.150 EURRey Julien
Eternity
80 x 80 cm2.150 EURRey Julien
Memories
80 x 80 cm2.150 EURRey Julien
North Face
80 x 80 cm2.150 EURRey Julien
Falling
120 x 40 cm1.650 EURRey Julien
Exodus
80 x 80 cm2.150 EURRey Julien
Manna-hatta
80 x 80 cm2.150 EURRey Julien
Infinity
80 x 80 cm2.150 EURRey Julien
Mystery
80 x 80 cm2.150 EURRey Julien
Alchimia
120 x 40 cm1.650 EURRey Julien
Souvenirs
80 x 80 cm2.150 EURRey Julien
Element
100 x 100 cm3.100 EURRey Julien
Galaxy
100 x 100 cm3.100 EURRey Julien
Vol de nuit
80 x 80 cm2.150 EURRey Julien
Tempest
80 x 80 cm2.150 EURRey Julien
Sapin
25 x 25 cm285 EURRey Julien
On the run
50 x 50 cm1.200 EURRey Julien
San Giorggio
120 x 40 cm1.650 EURRey Julien
Hightower
80 x 80 cm2.150 EURRey Julien
fall of light
19 x 19 cm185 EURRey Julien
Tarak
120 x 40 cm1.650 EURRey Julien
Galaxy
80 x 80 cm2.150 EURRey Julien
feeling
13 x 13 cm115 EURRey Julien
Flat iron
19 x 19 cm185 EURRey Julien
Dark Night
40 x 120 cm1.650 EURRey Julien
Crossfire
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
Gallion
80 x 80 cm2.150 EURRey Julien
Mistral
80 x 80 cm2.150 EUR- Sold
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Seascape
19 x 19 cm185 EUR Rey Julien
Still here
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
Vol de nuit
80 x 80 cm2.150 EURRey Julien
Mystery
100 x 100 cm3.100 EURRey Julien
Here I am
40 x 120 cm1.650 EURRey Julien
Early Morning
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
Vanish
100 x 100 cm3.100 EURRey Julien
The Lost
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
Promise of the Unknown
13 x 13 cm115 EURRey Julien
Shades
19 x 19 cm185 EURRey Julien
Nebari
50 x 50 cm1.200 EURRey Julien
Down the road
120 x 40 cm1.650 EURRey Julien
Street life
100 x 100 cm3.100 EURRey Julien
Epsylon
36 x 36 cm480 EUR- Sold
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After the rain
25 x 25 cm285 EUR Rey Julien
Misty
36 x 36 cm480 EUR