Rey Julien | Contemporary Artist: Artworks & Biography
Rey Julien
- France
Painter
- Best-sellers' artworks
1974 followers !
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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(148 Artworks)
148 Artworks
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Here I am
40 x 120 cm1 450 €Rey Julien
we own the night
25 x 25 cm285 €Rey Julien
fresh
19 x 19 cm170 €Rey Julien
Take a trip
13 x 13 cm109 €- Sold
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Bulding
13 x 13 cm109 € Rey Julien
Shade
36 x 36 cm480 €- Sold
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Cervin
25 x 25 cm285 € Rey Julien
The night start
36 x 36 cm480 €Rey Julien
Everlast
25 x 25 cm285 €Rey Julien
Infinity
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Stampede
100 x 100 cm2 900 €Rey Julien
Alchimia
100 x 100 cm2 900 €Rey Julien
raining Day
13 x 13 cm109 €Rey Julien
Think of
25 x 25 cm285 €Rey Julien
Crossfire
36 x 36 cm480 €Rey Julien
Street life
100 x 100 cm2 900 €Rey Julien
Eternity
36 x 36 cm480 €Rey Julien
Welcome to Heaven
25 x 25 cm285 €Rey Julien
Down the road
80 x 80 cm1 900 €Rey Julien
Simplon
36 x 36 cm480 €Rey Julien
Future love
25 x 25 cm285 €Rey Julien
Mistral
25 x 25 cm285 €Rey Julien
Sur les Hauteurs
36 x 36 cm480 €Rey Julien
Nebari
50 x 50 cm880 €Rey Julien
Tarak
120 x 40 cm1 450 €Rey Julien
We own the night
80 x 80 cm1 900 €Rey Julien
Anathema
50 x 50 cm880 €Rey Julien
Promise of the Unknown
13 x 13 cm109 €Rey Julien
Sforza
13 x 13 cm109 €- Sold
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RAINING IN PARADISE
25 x 25 cm285 € Rey Julien
Hongaï
100 x 100 cm2 900 €Rey Julien
Sapin
25 x 25 cm285 €Rey Julien
White Winter
25 x 25 cm285 €Rey Julien
Everlast
36 x 36 cm480 €Rey Julien
Flatiron
19 x 19 cm170 €Rey Julien
Memories
25 x 25 cm285 €Rey Julien
Indochine
19 x 19 cm170 €Rey Julien
The end of doubt
36 x 36 cm480 €Rey Julien
Les vélos
19 x 19 cm170 €Rey Julien
Les sommets
80 x 80 cm1 900 €Rey Julien
Hôtel-Dieu
120 x 40 cm1 450 €Rey Julien
Origins
120 x 40 cm1 450 €Rey Julien
Rendez-vous
13 x 13 cm109 €Rey Julien
Jungle
120 x 40 cm1 450 €Rey Julien
fall of light
19 x 19 cm170 €Rey Julien
Run out
36 x 36 cm480 €Rey Julien
You and I
19 x 19 cm170 €- Sold
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lovely feeling
19 x 19 cm170 € Rey Julien
Dear you
36 x 36 cm480 €Rey Julien
Solar Flair
80 x 80 cm1 900 €Rey Julien
Super nova
50 x 50 cm880 €Rey Julien
Spirit
36 x 36 cm480 €Rey Julien
Shiny in the rain
36 x 36 cm480 €Rey Julien
Fantastic
36 x 36 cm480 €Rey Julien
Dark Night
40 x 120 cm1 450 €Rey Julien
Sovereign
100 x 100 cm2 900 €Rey Julien
Mystery
100 x 100 cm2 900 €- Sold
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Duomo au matin
36 x 36 cm480 € Rey Julien
Alchimia
36 x 36 cm480 €Rey Julien
Hotel Dieu
25 x 25 cm285 €