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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124 Artworks
Rey Julien
Mystery
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Rey Julien
Levant
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500- Sold
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The night start
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100 Rey Julien
Les vélos
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Rey Julien
Memories
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Rey Julien
Voyage
50 x 50 cmSGD 2,150Rey Julien
The Beauty of the Night
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
White Winter
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Rey Julien
Galaxy
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Rey Julien
Terra nova
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200- Sold
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Ballade de nuit
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200 Rey Julien
Any where you go
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Rey Julien
A peaceful world
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Rey Julien
Infinity
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Sapin
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Rey Julien
DELTA
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500Rey Julien
fresh
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Rey Julien
Souvenirs
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Rey Julien
Amandier
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Rey Julien
Take a trip
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Rey Julien
Exodus
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Rey Julien
North Face
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Rey Julien
Element
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500Rey Julien
Galaxy
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500Rey Julien
Shiny in the rain
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Alpha
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500Rey Julien
Simplon
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Köln
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Rey Julien
Stampede
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Rey Julien
Flatiron
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Rey Julien
Genesis
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500Rey Julien
Nova
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500Rey Julien
Everlast
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Rey Julien
INDOCHINE
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Skyline
120 x 40 cmSGD 3,950Rey Julien
Stampede
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500Rey Julien
Be there
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Rey Julien
Les sommets
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Rey Julien
Vol de nuit
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Rey Julien
Dear you
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Mistral
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Rey Julien
Flat iron
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Rey Julien
Promise of the Unknown
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Rey Julien
On the run
50 x 50 cmSGD 2,150Rey Julien
Tarak
120 x 40 cmSGD 3,950Rey Julien
The end of doubt
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100- Sold
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Here I am again
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100 Rey Julien
Crossfire
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Early Morning
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Cervin
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Rey Julien
Indochine
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Rey Julien
Eternity
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Rey Julien
Shade
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Voyager
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Down the road
120 x 40 cmSGD 3,950Rey Julien
Sovereign
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500Rey Julien
Symphony
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
We own the night
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Rey Julien
Ombres
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Rey Julien
Epsylon
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100