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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(152 Artworks)
152 Artworks
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Mystery
100 x 100 cm3.050 EURRey Julien
Stampede
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURRey Julien
Spirit
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
Down the road
120 x 40 cm1.650 EURRey Julien
Mendosa
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURRey Julien
Milenium
120 x 40 cm1.650 EURRey Julien
Here I am
40 x 120 cm1.650 EURRey Julien
Flatiron
19 x 19 cm180 EURRey Julien
Cervin
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURRey Julien
White Winter
25 x 25 cm280 EURRey Julien
Manna Hatta
80 x 80 cm2.100 EUR- Sold
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The Return
19 x 19 cm180 EUR Rey Julien
Ombres
25 x 25 cm280 EURRey Julien
Still here
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
After the rain
25 x 25 cm280 EURRey Julien
Stampede
100 x 100 cm3.050 EURRey Julien
Promise of the Unknown
13 x 13 cm110 EURRey Julien
Shades
19 x 19 cm180 EUR- Sold
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Fighting Destiny
13 x 13 cm110 EUR Rey Julien
Nebari
50 x 50 cm1.150 EURRey Julien
Crossfire
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
View Across
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
Vanish
100 x 100 cm3.050 EURRey Julien
Memories
25 x 25 cm280 EURRey Julien
Eternity
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
Hotel Dieu
25 x 25 cm280 EURRey Julien
Street life
100 x 100 cm3.050 EURRey Julien
Simplon
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
We on the Night
40 x 120 cm1.650 EURRey Julien
Any where you go
19 x 19 cm180 EURRey Julien
Take a trip
13 x 13 cm110 EURRey Julien
Think of
25 x 25 cm280 EUR