Rey Julien | Contemporary Artist: Artworks & Biography
Rey Julien
- France
Painter
- Best-sellers' artworks
1969 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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155 Artworks
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Stampede
80 x 80 cm2.100 EUR Rey Julien
Nebari
50 x 50 cm1.150 EURRey Julien
Rough
25 x 25 cm280 EURRey Julien
Indochine
19 x 19 cm180 EURRey Julien
Infinity
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
We own the night
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURRey Julien
Origins
120 x 40 cm1.650 EURRey Julien
The Lost
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
Les vélos
19 x 19 cm180 EURRey Julien
fresh
19 x 19 cm180 EURRey Julien
We on the Night
40 x 120 cm1.650 EUR- Sold
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The Return
19 x 19 cm180 EUR Rey Julien
Vent dans les feuilles
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
View Across
36 x 36 cm480 EUR- Sold
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The birth of the mountain
13 x 13 cm110 EUR Rey Julien
Les sommets
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURRey Julien
Solar Flair
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURRey Julien
Hôtel-Dieu
120 x 40 cm1.650 EURRey Julien
raining Day
13 x 13 cm110 EURRey Julien
Arkan
25 x 25 cm280 EURRey Julien
The beauty of City
19 x 19 cm180 EURRey Julien
Here I am
40 x 120 cm1.650 EURRey Julien
Ombres
25 x 25 cm280 EURRey Julien
Down the road
120 x 40 cm1.650 EUR- Sold
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lovely feeling
19 x 19 cm180 EUR - Sold
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Duomo au matin
36 x 36 cm480 EUR Rey Julien
Sky light
40 x 120 cm1.650 EURRey Julien
Memories
25 x 25 cm280 EUR- Sold
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North Face
120 x 40 cm1.650 EUR Rey Julien
Hotel Dieu
25 x 25 cm280 EURRey Julien
Sapin
25 x 25 cm280 EURRey Julien
Future love
25 x 25 cm280 EURRey Julien
Street life
100 x 100 cm3.050 EUR- Sold
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Bulding
13 x 13 cm110 EUR Rey Julien
Spirit
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
Talent designs
25 x 25 cm280 EURRey Julien
Instinct
50 x 50 cm1.150 EURRey Julien
Super nova
50 x 50 cm1.150 EURRey Julien
Early Morning
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
DELTA
100 x 100 cm3.050 EURRey Julien
Dawn
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURRey Julien
Manna Hatta
80 x 80 cm2.100 EURRey Julien
Dark Night
40 x 120 cm1.650 EURRey Julien
Mistral
25 x 25 cm280 EURRey Julien
Take a trip
13 x 13 cm110 EURRey Julien
Sforza
13 x 13 cm110 EURRey Julien
Jungle
120 x 40 cm1.650 EUR- Sold
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Under the tree
25 x 25 cm280 EUR Rey Julien
Think of
25 x 25 cm280 EURRey Julien
Alchimia
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
Anathema
50 x 50 cm1.150 EURRey Julien
Köln
25 x 25 cm280 EURRey Julien
Everlast
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
Fantastic
36 x 36 cm480 EUR- Sold
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Fighting Destiny
13 x 13 cm110 EUR Rey Julien
INDOCHINE
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
Alchimia
100 x 100 cm3.050 EUR- Sold
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Cervin
25 x 25 cm280 EUR Rey Julien
Sur les Hauteurs
36 x 36 cm480 EURRey Julien
On the run
50 x 50 cm1.150 EUR