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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80 Artworks
Rey Julien
Night view
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Rey Julien
fresh
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Rey Julien
Shiny in the rain
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Memories
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Rey Julien
A peaceful world
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Rey Julien
Les vélos
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Rey Julien
White Winter
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Rey Julien
Sapin
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Rey Julien
Take a trip
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Rey Julien
Simplon
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Journey
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Rey Julien
Frégate
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Rey Julien
Day Dream
50 x 50 cmSGD 2,150Rey Julien
Beautiful city
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Rey Julien
Mistral
50 x 50 cmSGD 2,150Rey Julien
Rendez-vous
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Rey Julien
Night Call
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500Rey Julien
Alpha
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Rey Julien
With you
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Rey Julien
Dawn
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Rey Julien
Thinking
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Rey Julien
My valentine
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Rey Julien
En Finlande
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Rey Julien
Ville de Lyon
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Jungle
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Rey Julien
Voyage
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500Rey Julien
fith s avenue
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Rey Julien
Be there
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Rey Julien
Crossfire
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Shade
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Voyager
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Rey Julien
Welcome to Heaven
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Rey Julien
Sampan
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Rey Julien
Indochine
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Rey Julien
Ce matin là
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Rey Julien
Meeting
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Rey Julien
Navigation
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Pins
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Rey Julien
feeling
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Rey Julien
Fantastic
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Dear you
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Souvenirs
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Rey Julien
Shades
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Rey Julien
Hotel Dieu
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Rey Julien
Fjord
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Rey Julien
Everlast
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Reveal
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Rey Julien
Now_here
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Rey Julien
Stay close
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Rey Julien
Artemis
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500Rey Julien
Sur les Hauteurs
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
The Lost
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Moonlight
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Rey Julien
Element
40 x 120 cmSGD 3,950Rey Julien
City Night view
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Rey Julien
A l'ombre des buildings
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Rey Julien
be alone
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Rey Julien
Totem
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Rey Julien
Early Morning
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
lac
13 x 13 cmSGD 230