Rey Julien | Contemporary Artist: Artworks & Biography
Rey Julien
- France
Painter
- Best-sellers' artworks
1975 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.
- Canada :
- France :
- Netherlands (the) :
- United States of America (the) :
- 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
Filter
Filter
(134 Artworks)
134 Artworks
Rey Julien
We on the Night
40 x 120 cmHKD 26,400Rey Julien
On the run
50 x 50 cmHKD 15,400Rey Julien
Stampede
100 x 100 cmHKD 52,800Rey Julien
Everlast
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Rey Julien
Dark Night
40 x 120 cmHKD 26,400Rey Julien
Manna Hatta
80 x 80 cmHKD 31,900Rey Julien
Anathema
50 x 50 cmHKD 15,400- Sold
Rey Julien
Stampede
80 x 80 cmHKD 31,900 Rey Julien
Eternity
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Rey Julien
Jungle
120 x 40 cmHKD 26,400Rey Julien
Nebari
50 x 50 cmHKD 15,400Rey Julien
Milenium
120 x 40 cmHKD 26,400Rey Julien
Tarak
120 x 40 cmHKD 26,400Rey Julien
Stampede
80 x 80 cmHKD 31,900Rey Julien
Sur les Hauteurs
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Rey Julien
Dear you
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Rey Julien
We own the night
100 x 100 cmHKD 52,800Rey Julien
Vent dans les feuilles
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Rey Julien
raining Day
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600Rey Julien
Epsylon
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Rey Julien
Rough
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600Rey Julien
Rendez-vous
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600Rey Julien
Manna hatta
50 x 50 cmHKD 15,400Rey Julien
Köln
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600Rey Julien
Dawn
80 x 80 cmHKD 31,900Rey Julien
Alchimia
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Rey Julien
Super nova
50 x 50 cmHKD 15,400Rey Julien
Still here
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Rey Julien
Rendez-vous lyonnais
120 x 40 cmHKD 26,400Rey Julien
Vol de nuit
80 x 80 cmHKD 31,900Rey Julien
Sapin
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600Rey Julien
Early Morning
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Rey Julien
The Lost
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Rey Julien
Symphony
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Rey Julien
DELTA
100 x 100 cmHKD 52,800Rey Julien
Fantastic
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100- Sold
Rey Julien
The Return
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400 Rey Julien
Sovereign
100 x 100 cmHKD 52,800Rey Julien
we own the night
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600Rey Julien
The beauty of City
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400Rey Julien
View Across
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Rey Julien
Les vélos
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400Rey Julien
Sforza
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600Rey Julien
Flat iron
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400Rey Julien
Everlast
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600Rey Julien
Vanish
100 x 100 cmHKD 52,800Rey Julien
Here I am
40 x 120 cmHKD 26,400Rey Julien
Here I am again
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100- Sold
Rey Julien
RAINING IN PARADISE
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600 - Sold
Rey Julien
Cervin
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600 Rey Julien
Instinct
50 x 50 cmHKD 15,400Rey Julien
Hôtel-Dieu
120 x 40 cmHKD 26,400Rey Julien
After the rain
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600Rey Julien
Think of
25 x 25 cmHKD 4,600Rey Julien
Shade
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100Rey Julien
Les sommets
80 x 80 cmHKD 31,900Rey Julien
We own the night
80 x 80 cmHKD 31,900Rey Julien
Indochine
19 x 19 cmHKD 2,400Rey Julien
Take a trip
13 x 13 cmHKD 1,600Rey Julien
Infinity
36 x 36 cmHKD 7,100