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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207 Artworks
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The Beauty of the Night
36 x 36 cm480 € Rey Julien
North Face
80 x 80 cm2.100 €Rey Julien
Tempest
80 x 80 cm2.100 €Rey Julien
Memories
25 x 25 cm280 €Rey Julien
Galaxy
80 x 80 cm2.100 €Rey Julien
Mystery
80 x 80 cm2.100 €- Sold
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Elégance
80 x 80 cm2.100 € Rey Julien
A peaceful world
19 x 19 cm180 €Rey Julien
Galaxy
100 x 100 cm3.050 €Rey Julien
Voyage
50 x 50 cm1.150 €Rey Julien
Levant
100 x 100 cm3.050 €Rey Julien
Les vélos
19 x 19 cm180 €Rey Julien
White Winter
25 x 25 cm280 €Rey Julien
Terra nova
80 x 80 cm2.100 €- Sold
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Any where you go
19 x 19 cm180 € Rey Julien
Infinity
36 x 36 cm480 €Rey Julien
Sapin
25 x 25 cm280 €Rey Julien
DELTA
100 x 100 cm3.050 €Rey Julien
fresh
19 x 19 cm180 €Rey Julien
Souvenirs
80 x 80 cm2.100 €Rey Julien
Amandier
80 x 80 cm2.100 €Rey Julien
Take a trip
13 x 13 cm110 €Rey Julien
Exodus
80 x 80 cm2.100 €Rey Julien
Element
100 x 100 cm3.050 €Rey Julien
Manna hatta
50 x 50 cm1.150 €Rey Julien
Shiny in the rain
36 x 36 cm480 €Rey Julien
Alpha
100 x 100 cm3.050 €Rey Julien
Simplon
36 x 36 cm480 €Rey Julien
Köln
25 x 25 cm280 €Rey Julien
Milenium
120 x 40 cm1.650 €Rey Julien
Fantastic
36 x 36 cm480 €Rey Julien
Frégate
25 x 25 cm280 €- Sold
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Street life
25 x 25 cm280 € Rey Julien
Sovereign
100 x 100 cm3.050 €- Sold
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Promise of the Unknown
13 x 13 cm110 € Rey Julien
Tonkin
19 x 19 cm180 €Rey Julien
Un de ces matins
19 x 19 cm180 €Rey Julien
Welcome to Heaven
25 x 25 cm280 €Rey Julien
Stampede
100 x 100 cm3.050 €Rey Julien
Rough
25 x 25 cm280 €Rey Julien
night star
36 x 36 cm480 €- Sold
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We own the night
80 x 80 cm2.100 € Rey Julien
La ville s'endort
120 x 40 cm1.650 €Rey Julien
Gallion
80 x 80 cm2.100 €Rey Julien
Hightower
80 x 80 cm2.100 €Rey Julien
Alpha
80 x 80 cm2.100 €Rey Julien
Hongaï
100 x 100 cm3.050 €Rey Julien
Flat iron
19 x 19 cm180 €Rey Julien
Stamped
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Olivier en Provence
13 x 13 cm110 € - Sold
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Lac
19 x 19 cm180 € Rey Julien
INDOCHINE
36 x 36 cm480 €Rey Julien
Voyages
13 x 13 cm110 €Rey Julien
Night view
19 x 19 cm180 €Rey Julien
Rendez-vous lyonnais
120 x 40 cm1.650 €- Sold
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Olivier en Provece
25 x 25 cm280 € Rey Julien
Vanish
100 x 100 cm3.050 €- Sold
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Speed Steam Rain
25 x 25 cm280 € Rey Julien
Ekombre
100 x 100 cm3.050 €- Sold
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City night
13 x 13 cm110 €