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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157 Artworks
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Ellipsis
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURRey Julien
Souvenirs
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURRey Julien
Shiny in the rain
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
Ici et là
100 x 100 cm3.050 EUR- Sold
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Hear me
36 x 36 cm480 EUR Rey Julien
Skylight
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
Manna hatta
50 x 50 cm1.150 EURRey Julien
Mystery
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURRey Julien
Hongaï
100 x 100 cm3.050 EUR- Sold
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Voyage
80 x 80 cm2.100 EUR - Sold
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Peacefully
100 x 100 cm3.050 EUR Rey Julien
Evasion
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURRey Julien
Here I am
40 x 120 cm1.650 EURRey Julien
Hôtel-Dieu
120 x 40 cm1.650 EURRey Julien
Crépuscule lyonnais
100 x 100 cm3.050 EURRey Julien
Hôtel-Dieu
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURRey Julien
Instinct
50 x 50 cm1.150 EURRey Julien
Promenade Nocturne
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURRey Julien
Stampede
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURRey Julien
Vol de nuit
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURRey Julien
MAJESTIC
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
Still here
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
Ekombre
100 x 100 cm3.050 EURRey Julien
Fantastic
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
Manna-Hatta
36 x 36 cm480 EUR- Sold
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Le Dome
19 x 19 cm180 EUR Rey Julien
Sforza
13 x 13 cm110 EURRey Julien
Manna_hatta
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
Hightower
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURRey Julien
Flat iron
19 x 19 cm180 EURRey Julien
Dawn
80 x 80 cm2.100 EUR- Sold
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Peaceful world
36 x 36 cm480 EUR - Sold
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Des Toits de Lyon
120 x 40 cm1.650 EUR Rey Julien
Artefact II
100 x 100 cm3.050 EURRey Julien
Ballade
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURRey Julien
Avant la Tempête
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURRey Julien
Vanish
100 x 100 cm3.050 EURRey Julien
Sovereign
100 x 100 cm3.050 EURRey Julien
Balade Lyonnaise
50 x 50 cm1.150 EURRey Julien
Cervin
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURRey Julien
Manna Hatta
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURRey Julien
Paramount
70 x 70 cm1.650 EURRey Julien
Les sommets
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURRey Julien
l'appel de la nature
100 x 100 cm3.050 EURRey Julien
Bivouac
25 x 25 cm280 EURRey Julien
Epsylon
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
Anathema
50 x 50 cm1.150 EURRey Julien
Remente
50 x 50 cm1.150 EURRey Julien
Spirit
36 x 36 cm480 EUR- Sold
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Nocturne
50 x 50 cm1.150 EUR Rey Julien
genesis
50 x 50 cm1.150 EUR- Sold
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Skyline
50 x 50 cm1.150 EUR Rey Julien
Esperenza
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURRey Julien
Mendosa
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURRey Julien
Cervin
25 x 25 cm280 EURRey Julien
Dies Irae
25 x 25 cm280 EURRey Julien
Arkan
25 x 25 cm280 EURRey Julien
Ombres
25 x 25 cm280 EURRey Julien
Misty
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
Nocturne
36 x 36 cm480 EUR