Rey Julien | Contemporary Artist: Artworks & Biography
Rey Julien
- France
Painter
- Best-sellers' artworks
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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.
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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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The Beauty of the Night
36 x 36 cmUSD 800 Rey Julien
North Face
80 x 80 cmUSD 3,200Rey Julien
Memories
25 x 25 cmUSD 465Rey Julien
Galaxy
80 x 80 cmUSD 3,200Rey Julien
A peaceful world
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Rey Julien
Galaxy
100 x 100 cmUSD 4,700Rey Julien
Voyage
50 x 50 cmUSD 1,450Rey Julien
Levant
100 x 100 cmUSD 4,700Rey Julien
Les vélos
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Rey Julien
White Winter
25 x 25 cmUSD 465Rey Julien
Terra nova
80 x 80 cmUSD 3,200- Sold
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The night start
36 x 36 cmUSD 800 Rey Julien
Any where you go
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Rey Julien
Infinity
36 x 36 cmUSD 800Rey Julien
Sapin
25 x 25 cmUSD 465Rey Julien
DELTA
100 x 100 cmUSD 4,700Rey Julien
fresh
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Rey Julien
Souvenirs
80 x 80 cmUSD 3,200Rey Julien
Amandier
80 x 80 cmUSD 3,200Rey Julien
Take a trip
13 x 13 cmUSD 185Rey Julien
Exodus
80 x 80 cmUSD 3,200Rey Julien
Element
100 x 100 cmUSD 4,700Rey Julien
Manna hatta
50 x 50 cmUSD 1,450Rey Julien
Shiny in the rain
36 x 36 cmUSD 800Rey Julien
Alpha
100 x 100 cmUSD 4,700Rey Julien
Simplon
36 x 36 cmUSD 800Rey Julien
Köln
25 x 25 cmUSD 465Rey Julien
Arbre de vie
USD 3,800Rey Julien
Stampede
80 x 80 cmUSD 3,200Rey Julien
Dawn
13 x 13 cmUSD 185Rey Julien
Mystery
80 x 80 cmUSD 3,200Rey Julien
Avant la Tempête
80 x 80 cmUSD 3,200Rey Julien
Stampede
100 x 100 cmUSD 4,700Rey Julien
Manna Hatta
80 x 80 cmUSD 3,200Rey Julien
Dies Irae
25 x 25 cmUSD 465Rey Julien
Alpha
80 x 80 cmUSD 3,200Rey Julien
Golden tree
13 x 13 cmUSD 185Rey Julien
My valentine
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Rey Julien
Shades
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Rey Julien
Symphony
36 x 36 cmUSD 800Rey Julien
Here I am
40 x 120 cmUSD 2,300Rey Julien
Memories
80 x 80 cmUSD 3,200Rey Julien
under the light
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Rey Julien
Traveling
25 x 25 cmUSD 465Rey Julien
En Finlande
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Rey Julien
Fantastic
36 x 36 cmUSD 800Rey Julien
Stampede
40 x 120 cmUSD 2,300Rey Julien
Everlast
25 x 25 cmUSD 465- Sold
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Expedition
25 x 25 cmUSD 465 Rey Julien
My dream
36 x 36 cmUSD 800Rey Julien
Voyager
36 x 36 cmUSD 800Rey Julien
lac
13 x 13 cmUSD 185- Sold
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Olivier en Provence
13 x 13 cmUSD 185 Rey Julien
Olivier en Provence
36 x 36 cmUSD 800Rey Julien
Beautiful city
80 x 80 cmUSD 3,200Rey Julien
Artemis
100 x 100 cmUSD 4,700Rey Julien
Early Morning
36 x 36 cmUSD 800Rey Julien
Street life
100 x 100 cmUSD 4,700Rey Julien
Epsylon
36 x 36 cmUSD 800Rey Julien
Voyage
100 x 100 cmUSD 4,700