Rey Julien | Contemporary Artist: Artworks & Biography
Rey Julien
- France
Painter
- Best-sellers' artworks
1979 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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140 Artworks
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Modern times
80 x 80 cmHKD 31,900 Rey Julien
Remente
50 x 50 cmHKD 15,400Rey Julien
Ekombre
100 x 100 cmHKD 52,800- Sold
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Night view
40 x 120 cmHKD 26,400 Rey Julien
Olivier au matin
50 x 50 cmHKD 15,400Rey Julien
Voyage
100 x 100 cmHKD 52,800Rey Julien
Voyager
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Rey Julien
Nova
100 x 100 cmHKD 52,800Rey Julien
Terra Nova
100 x 100 cmHKD 52,800Rey Julien
City Never Sleep
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600Rey Julien
Souvenirs
120 x 40 cmHKD 26,400Rey Julien
Levant
100 x 100 cmHKD 52,800Rey Julien
Skyline
120 x 40 cmHKD 26,400Rey Julien
STYAMPEDE
80 x 80 cmHKD 31,900Rey Julien
Mistral
120 x 120 cmHKD 68,200Rey Julien
Be with me
80 x 80 cmHKD 31,900- Sold
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City Of Love
80 x 80 cmHKD 31,900 Rey Julien
Eternity
80 x 80 cmHKD 31,900Rey Julien
Memories
80 x 80 cmHKD 31,900Rey Julien
North Face
80 x 80 cmHKD 31,900Rey Julien
Falling
120 x 40 cmHKD 26,400Rey Julien
Exodus
80 x 80 cmHKD 31,900Rey Julien
Manna-hatta
80 x 80 cmHKD 31,900Rey Julien
Infinity
80 x 80 cmHKD 31,900Rey Julien
Mystery
80 x 80 cmHKD 31,900Rey Julien
Alchimia
120 x 40 cmHKD 26,400Rey Julien
Souvenirs
80 x 80 cmHKD 31,900Rey Julien
Element
100 x 100 cmHKD 52,800Rey Julien
Galaxy
100 x 100 cmHKD 52,800Rey Julien
L'olivier
80 x 80 cmHKD 31,900Rey Julien
Vol de nuit
80 x 80 cmHKD 31,900Rey Julien
Tempest
80 x 80 cmHKD 31,900Rey Julien
Vanish
100 x 100 cmHKD 52,800Rey Julien
Instinct
50 x 50 cmHKD 15,400Rey Julien
Hôtel-Dieu
120 x 40 cmHKD 26,400Rey Julien
Hongaï
100 x 100 cmHKD 52,800Rey Julien
feeling
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600Rey Julien
Everlast
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600Rey Julien
The Beauty of the Night
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Rey Julien
fall of light
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400Rey Julien
Indochine
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400Rey Julien
Welcome to Heaven
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600Rey Julien
Sky light
40 x 120 cmHKD 26,400- Sold
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Cervin
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600 Rey Julien
Sforza
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600Rey Julien
Rough
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600Rey Julien
Sovereign
100 x 100 cmHKD 52,800Rey Julien
Appel de la nature
50 x 50 cmHKD 15,400Rey Julien
The Lost
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Rey Julien
Alchimia
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100- Sold
Rey Julien
Duomo au matin
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100 Rey Julien
Think of
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600Rey Julien
Seascape
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400Rey Julien
Cervin
80 x 80 cmHKD 31,900Rey Julien
Dawn
80 x 80 cmHKD 31,900Rey Julien
Petit matin
50 x 50 cmHKD 15,400Rey Julien
Fantastic
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Rey Julien
Avant la Tempête
80 x 80 cmHKD 31,900Rey Julien
Dark Night
40 x 120 cmHKD 26,400Rey Julien
Promise of the Unknown
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600