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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(106 Artworks)
106 Artworks
Rey Julien
Mystery
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Rey Julien
Ekombre
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500Rey Julien
Ballade
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Rey Julien
Nocturne
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Dies Irae
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Rey Julien
Millenium
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500Rey Julien
Terra Nova
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500Rey Julien
Night atmosphere
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Rey Julien
Up rizing
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500- Sold
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Manna-hatta
50 x 50 cmSGD 2,150 Rey Julien
L'olivier
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Rey Julien
Everlast
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Rey Julien
Simplon
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Arkan
25 x 25 cmSGD 650- Sold
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Stole my heart
25 x 25 cmSGD 650 Rey Julien
Mystery
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Rey Julien
Alchimia
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Alchimia
120 x 40 cmSGD 3,950Rey Julien
Still here
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
City Square
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Rey Julien
Estampe
50 x 50 cmSGD 2,150Rey Julien
Grateful Heritage
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Rey Julien
Symphony
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Duomo au matin
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Moonlight
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Rey Julien
Look out
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Artefact
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500Rey Julien
Early Morning
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Mistral
120 x 120 cmSGD 9,800Rey Julien
A peaceful world
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Rey Julien
Skylight
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Night life
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Element
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500Rey Julien
Crépuscule lyonnais
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500Rey Julien
Wild
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500Rey Julien
Everlast
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Think of
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Rey Julien
Stampede
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Rey Julien
Here I am again
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Antik
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500Rey Julien
Les sommets
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Rey Julien
Ici et là
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500Rey Julien
Sforza
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Rey Julien
Here I am
40 x 120 cmSGD 3,950Rey Julien
Hôtel-Dieu
120 x 40 cmSGD 3,950Rey Julien
Vanish
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500Rey Julien
Take a trip
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Rey Julien
Levant
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500Rey Julien
Cervin
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200- Sold
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Please remember
19 x 19 cmSGD 390 Rey Julien
Vol de nuit
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Rey Julien
Flatiron
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Rey Julien
Spirit
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Enjoy the day
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Skyline
120 x 40 cmSGD 3,950Rey Julien
Ellipsis
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200- Sold
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Manna-Hatta
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100 Rey Julien
Köln
25 x 25 cmSGD 650- Sold
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Raindrop
25 x 25 cmSGD 650 Rey Julien
Artefact II
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500