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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155 Artworks
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Ombres
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Crossfire
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Appel de la nature
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Duomo au matin
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Down the road
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raining Day
13 x 13 cm239 CADRey Julien
fall of light
19 x 19 cm359 CADRey Julien
Vanish
100 x 100 cm5,799 CADRey Julien
Galaxy
80 x 80 cm3,839 CADRey Julien
we own the night
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View Across
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fresh
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INDOCHINE
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Nebari
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Galaxy
80 x 80 cm3,839 CADRey Julien
Rough
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Future love
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Cervin
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Epsylon
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Voyage
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Sforza
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Shiny in the rain
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Eternity
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Hôtel-Dieu
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Think of
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Shades
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Flat iron
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Amandier
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Petit matin
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Hotel Dieu
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RANA
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Stampede
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Les sommets
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Spirit
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We own the night
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We on the Night
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Seascape
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Indochine
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Dear you
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Mystery
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Milenium
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High time
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Mistral
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Vent dans les feuilles
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The Lost
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Avant la Tempête
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Vol de nuit
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DELTA
100 x 100 cm5,799 CADRey Julien
Shade
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Here I am again
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A peaceful world
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Souvenirs
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Mendosa
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Light of Day
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Sunset Over
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Stampede
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The night start
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We own the night
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Bulding
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Hightower
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