Rey Julien | Contemporary Artist: Artworks & Biography
Rey Julien
- France
Painter
- Best-sellers' artworks
1971 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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135 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
HKD 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 31,900- Sold
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Artefact
120 x 120 cmHKD 68,200 Rey 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
Hongaï
100 x 100 cmHKD 52,800Rey Julien
Vent dans les feuilles
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Rey Julien
The night start
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Rey Julien
We own the night
100 x 100 cmHKD 52,800Rey Julien
Fantastic
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Rey Julien
fall of light
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400Rey Julien
The Lost
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Rey Julien
Mistral
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600Rey Julien
feeling
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600Rey Julien
Les vélos
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400Rey Julien
Hôtel-Dieu
120 x 40 cmHKD 26,400Rey Julien
fresh
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400- Sold
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Bulding
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600 - Sold
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Cervin
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600 Rey Julien
Early Morning
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Rey Julien
The end of doubt
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Rey Julien
Sovereign
100 x 100 cmHKD 52,800Rey Julien
Shade
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100- Sold
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lovely feeling
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400 Rey Julien
Epsylon
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Rey Julien
genesis
50 x 50 cmHKD 15,400Rey Julien
Shiny in the rain
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Rey Julien
Tarak
120 x 40 cmHKD 26,400Rey Julien
Indochine
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400Rey Julien
Rendez-vous lyonnais
120 x 40 cmHKD 26,400- Sold
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RANA
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100 Rey Julien
We own the night
80 x 80 cmHKD 31,900