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
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Souvenirs
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Nervermind
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Omega
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500 Rey Julien
Hongaï
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Olivier au matin
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500 Rey Julien
Reflection
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Rey Julien
Ellipsis
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Rey Julien
Skylight
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Peacefully
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500Rey Julien
Hôtel-Dieu
120 x 40 cmSGD 3,950Rey Julien
Ici et là
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500Rey Julien
Evasion
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Rey Julien
Here I am
40 x 120 cmSGD 3,950Rey Julien
Crépuscule lyonnais
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500Rey Julien
Hôtel-Dieu
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Rey Julien
Promenade Nocturne
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Stampede
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Blooming
120 x 120 cmSGD 9,800 Rey Julien
Vol de nuit
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Rey Julien
MAGESTIC
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Still here
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Ekombre
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500Rey Julien
Nova
120 x 120 cmSGD 9,800- Sold
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Moment suspended
19 x 19 cmSGD 390 Rey Julien
Fantastic
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
PARIS ROOTH
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Rey Julien
Manna-Hatta
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AFTER
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Le Dome
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Rey Julien
Sforza
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Rey Julien
Manna_hatta
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Flat iron
19 x 19 cmSGD 390- Sold
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The big apple
25 x 25 cmSGD 650 Rey Julien
Dawn
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200- Sold
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Comfortable Silence
25 x 25 cmSGD 650 Rey Julien
Peaceful world
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100- Sold
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Remembered
25 x 25 cmSGD 650 Rey Julien
Des Toits de Lyon
120 x 40 cmSGD 3,950Rey Julien
Artefact II
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500Rey Julien
Ballade
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PREPARED
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HESITATE
25 x 25 cmSGD 650 Rey Julien
Shiny in the tain
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SWEET DAYS
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DRAW THE LINE
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100 Rey Julien
Avant la Tempête
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Rey Julien
Vanish
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500Rey Julien
Sovereign
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500- Sold
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Alpha
50 x 50 cmSGD 215 Rey Julien
Cervin
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Rey Julien
Manna Hatta
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Rey Julien
Paramount
70 x 70 cmSGD 4,000- Sold
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Phénix
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200 Rey Julien
Les sommets
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Peaceful
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500 Rey Julien
Call of the wild
70 x 70 cmSGD 4,000Rey Julien
il était une fois
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Rey Julien
l'appel de la nature
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500- Sold
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The night has just begun
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100