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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(143 Artworks)
143 Artworks
Rey Julien
Mystery
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURRey Julien
Remente
50 x 50 cm1.150 EURRey Julien
Ekombre
100 x 100 cm3.050 EURRey Julien
Dies Irae
25 x 25 cm280 EURRey Julien
Voyage
100 x 100 cm3.050 EURRey Julien
Voyager
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
Nova
100 x 100 cm3.050 EURRey Julien
Soleil et Lune
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURRey Julien
Terra Nova
100 x 100 cm3.050 EUR- Sold
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City Never Sleep
25 x 25 cm280 EUR Rey Julien
Souvenirs
120 x 40 cm1.650 EURRey Julien
Levant
100 x 100 cm3.050 EURRey Julien
Elégance
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURRey Julien
Skyline
120 x 40 cm1.650 EURRey Julien
STYAMPEDE
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURRey Julien
Be with me
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURRey Julien
Eternity
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURRey Julien
Memories
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURRey Julien
North Face
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURRey Julien
Falling
120 x 40 cm1.650 EURRey Julien
Exodus
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURRey Julien
Manna-hatta
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURRey Julien
Infinity
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURRey Julien
Mystery
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURRey Julien
Alchimia
120 x 40 cm1.650 EURRey Julien
Souvenirs
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURRey Julien
Element
100 x 100 cm3.050 EURRey Julien
Galaxy
100 x 100 cm3.050 EURRey Julien
Vol de nuit
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURRey Julien
Tempest
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURRey Julien
we own the night
25 x 25 cm280 EURRey Julien
Anathema
50 x 50 cm1.150 EURRey Julien
The Lost
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
Shade
36 x 36 cm480 EUR- Sold
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Sur les toits de Lyon
80 x 80 cm2.100 EUR Rey Julien
Infinity
36 x 36 cm480 EUR- Sold
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After the rain
25 x 25 cm280 EUR Rey Julien
Super nova
50 x 50 cm1.150 EURRey Julien
Run out
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
Terra nova
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURRey Julien
Shiny in the rain
36 x 36 cm480 EUR- Sold
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Shadow of doubt
80 x 80 cm2.100 EUR - Sold
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The night start
36 x 36 cm480 EUR Rey Julien
Jungle
120 x 40 cm1.650 EURRey Julien
Down the road
120 x 40 cm1.650 EURRey Julien
Epsylon
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
Arkan
25 x 25 cm280 EURRey Julien
Alpha
100 x 100 cm3.050 EURRey Julien
Symphony
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
Milenium
120 x 40 cm1.650 EURRey Julien
Flat iron
19 x 19 cm180 EURRey Julien
Manna Hatta
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURRey Julien
Street life
100 x 100 cm3.050 EURRey Julien
Everlast
25 x 25 cm280 EURRey Julien
Rough
25 x 25 cm280 EURRey Julien
White Winter
25 x 25 cm280 EURRey Julien
On the run
50 x 50 cm1.150 EURRey Julien
Vanish
100 x 100 cm3.050 EUR- Sold
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Reflection
25 x 25 cm280 EUR Rey Julien
Galaxy
80 x 80 cm2.100 EUR