Rey Julien | Contemporary Artist: Artworks & Biography
Rey Julien
- France
Painter
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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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Mystery
80 x 80 cmUSD 3,200Rey Julien
Souvenirs
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Nervermind
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Omega
100 x 100 cmUSD 4,800 Rey Julien
Hongaï
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Reflection
25 x 25 cmUSD 465Rey Julien
Ellipsis
80 x 80 cmUSD 3,200Rey Julien
Skylight
36 x 36 cmUSD 800Rey Julien
Peacefully
100 x 100 cmUSD 4,800Rey Julien
Nova
120 x 120 cmUSD 6,400Rey Julien
Element
100 x 100 cmUSD 4,800Rey Julien
Serenity
80 x 80 cmUSD 3,200Rey Julien
Astoria
80 x 80 cmUSD 3,200Rey Julien
genesis
50 x 50 cmUSD 1,450Rey Julien
l'appel de la nature
100 x 100 cmUSD 4,800Rey Julien
All time adored
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Rey Julien
Remente
50 x 50 cmUSD 1,450Rey Julien
Awake
25 x 25 cmUSD 465Rey Julien
Shiny in the tain
36 x 36 cmUSD 800Rey Julien
Gemini
100 x 100 cmUSD 4,800Rey Julien
Golden leaves
19 x 19 cmUSD 275- Sold
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Beauty
19 x 19 cmUSD 275 - Sold
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The big apple
25 x 25 cmUSD 465 Rey Julien
Skyline
19 x 19 cmUSD 275- Sold
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Awake
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Moment suspended
19 x 19 cmUSD 275 Rey Julien
Manna-Hatta
36 x 36 cmUSD 800Rey Julien
Fantastic
36 x 36 cmUSD 800Rey Julien
Flat iron
19 x 19 cmUSD 275- Sold
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NEKBAR
36 x 36 cmUSD 800 - Sold
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To the future
25 x 25 cmUSD 465 Rey Julien
Sans Titre
13 x 13 cmUSD 185Rey Julien
Raindrop
25 x 25 cmUSD 465- Sold
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The light that I can't find
13 x 13 cmUSD 185 Rey Julien
Alchimia
36 x 36 cmUSD 800Rey Julien
Beautiful mess
19 x 19 cmUSD 275- Sold
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Majestic
19 x 19 cmUSD 275 - Sold
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Patine
36 x 36 cmUSD 800 Rey Julien
Toi et moi
13 x 13 cmUSD 185Rey Julien
Dawn
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DRAW THE LINE
36 x 36 cmUSD 800 Rey Julien
legend
19 x 19 cmUSD 275- Sold
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Rock it
100 x 100 cmUSD 4,800 Rey Julien
A peaceful world
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Rey Julien
Mania
80 x 80 cmUSD 3,200Rey Julien
Artefact II
100 x 100 cmUSD 4,800Rey Julien
Spirit
36 x 36 cmUSD 800Rey Julien
Majestic
120 x 40 cmUSD 2,300- Sold
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In the air
13 x 13 cmUSD 185 Rey Julien
ZAURAK
36 x 36 cmUSD 800Rey Julien
Voyage
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Rey Julien
Seul dans la nuit
36 x 36 cmUSD 800Rey Julien
Memory of us
13 x 13 cmUSD 185Rey Julien
Animate
13 x 13 cmUSD 185- Sold
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HAIPONG
25 x 25 cmUSD 465 Rey Julien
Promises in the moonlight
19 x 19 cmUSD 275- Sold
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Astoria
25 x 25 cmUSD 465 Rey Julien
Cervin
25 x 25 cmUSD 465- Sold
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Together
13 x 13 cmUSD 185 Rey Julien
Stampede
80 x 80 cmUSD 3,200