Rey Julien | Contemporary Artist: Artworks & Biography
Rey Julien
- France
- Painter
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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.
- 2015Winning the Jury’s Grand Prize as a guest of honourMollans-sur Ouvèze, France
- 2013Group exhibition at the Nuances GalleryMontreal, Canada
- 2011Winning the jury’s PrizeMalaucène, France
- 1985Birth-, France
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Ellipsis
80 x 80 cm1 800 €Rey Julien
Indochine
100 x 100 cm2 700 €Rey Julien
Skylight
36 x 36 cm460 €Rey Julien
Peacefully
100 x 100 cm2 700 €Rey Julien
Nova
120 x 120 cm3 600 €Rey Julien
Exodes
100 x 100 cm2 700 €Rey Julien
Element
100 x 100 cm2 700 €Rey Julien
Serenity
80 x 80 cm1 800 €Rey Julien
Astoria
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Mendosa
80 x 80 cm1 800 €Rey Julien
genesis
50 x 50 cm825 €Rey Julien
l'appel de la nature
100 x 100 cm2 700 €Rey Julien
Remente
50 x 50 cm825 €Rey Julien
Breaking silence
25 x 25 cm265 €Rey Julien
Spirit
36 x 36 cm460 €Rey Julien
All time adored
19 x 19 cm155 €Rey Julien
One of these morning
25 x 25 cm265 €Rey Julien
Metropia
80 x 80 cm1 800 €- Sold
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SWEET DAYS
36 x 36 cm460 € Rey Julien
Alpha
100 x 100 cm2 700 €Rey Julien
Seul dans la nuit
36 x 36 cm460 €- Sold
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Neijikan
50 x 50 cm825 € Rey Julien
Idol
50 x 50 cm825 €Rey Julien
Here I am
40 x 120 cm1 250 €Rey Julien
Eternity
36 x 36 cm460 €Rey Julien
Flat Iron
19 x 19 cm155 €Rey Julien
Shadows
13 x 13 cm105 €Rey Julien
il était une fois
80 x 80 cm1 800 €- Sold
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Moment suspended
19 x 19 cm155 € Rey Julien
Les sommets
80 x 80 cm1 800 €- Sold
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Paradis perdus
25 x 25 cm265 € Rey Julien
Artefact II
100 x 100 cm2 700 €Rey Julien
Evasion
80 x 80 cm1 800 €Rey Julien
Totem
40 x 120 cm1 250 €Rey Julien
Ombres
25 x 25 cm265 €Rey Julien
Le Dome
19 x 19 cm155 €Rey Julien
Balade Lyonnaise
50 x 50 cm825 €Rey Julien
Promenade
100 x 100 cm2 700 €Rey Julien
Never change
36 x 36 cm460 €Rey Julien
Majestic
19 x 19 cm155 €Rey Julien
L'olivier
80 x 80 cm1 800 €Rey Julien
Anathema
50 x 50 cm825 €Rey Julien
Be remember
13 x 13 cm105 €- Sold
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PREPARED
19 x 19 cm155 € Rey Julien
Stamped
100 x 100 cm2 700 €- Sold
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As if ...
19 x 19 cm155 € Rey Julien
Le sommet
19 x 19 cm155 €Rey Julien
On the run
50 x 50 cm825 €Rey Julien
Climbing
13 x 13 cm105 €Rey Julien
Dies Irae
25 x 25 cm265 €Rey Julien
A peaceful world
19 x 19 cm155 €Rey Julien
MAGESTIC
36 x 36 cm460 €- Sold
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MY OWN NIGHT
40 x 120 cm1 250 € Rey Julien
Nature
25 x 25 cm265 €- Sold
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Ha-long
36 x 36 cm460 € Rey Julien
Vol de nuit
80 x 80 cm1 800 €Rey Julien
Ekombre
100 x 100 cm2 700 €Rey Julien
The idol
120 x 40 cm1 250 €Rey Julien
REVIVAL
25 x 25 cm265 €Rey Julien
Perfect
13 x 13 cm105 €