Rey Julien | Contemporary Artist: Artworks & Biography
Rey Julien
- France
Painter
- Best-sellers' artworks
1956 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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(148 Artworks)
148 Artworks
Rey Julien
Alchimia
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500Rey Julien
Epsylon
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Alchimia
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Vent dans les feuilles
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Fantastic
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Eternity
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Les vélos
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Rey Julien
Promenade Nocturne
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Rey Julien
Ombres
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Rey Julien
Indochine
19 x 19 cmSGD 390- Sold
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becoming
19 x 19 cmSGD 390 Rey Julien
Vanish
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500- Sold
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Under the tree
25 x 25 cmSGD 650 - Sold
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The birth of the mountain
13 x 13 cmSGD 230 Rey Julien
Look out
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Talent designs
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Rey Julien
Crossfire
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Rough
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Rey Julien
Avant la Tempête
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Rey Julien
Promise of the Unknown
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Rey Julien
Evasion
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Rey Julien
Mistral
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Rey Julien
Think of
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Rey Julien
feeling
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Rey Julien
Down the road
120 x 40 cmSGD 3,950Rey Julien
Sovereign
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500Rey Julien
Milenium
120 x 40 cmSGD 3,950Rey Julien
we own the night
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Rey Julien
Seascape
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Rey Julien
Early Morning
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Dark Night
120 x 40 cmSGD 3,950Rey Julien
Dawn
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Rey Julien
Simplon
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Origins
120 x 40 cmSGD 3,950Rey Julien
A peaceful world
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Rey Julien
After the rain
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Rey Julien
On the run
50 x 50 cmSGD 2,150Rey Julien
Dear you
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Vol de nuit
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Rey Julien
Flat iron
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Rey Julien
Köln
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Rey Julien
Flatiron
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Rey Julien
Hôtel-Dieu
120 x 40 cmSGD 3,950Rey Julien
The Lost
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Infinity
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Tarak
120 x 40 cmSGD 3,950Rey Julien
Any where you go
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Rey Julien
Spirit
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100- Sold
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Mochikomi
13 x 13 cmSGD 230 - Sold
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Serenity
120 x 40 cmSGD 3,950 - Sold
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Lost paradises
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200 - Sold
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North Face
120 x 40 cmSGD 3,950 Rey Julien
Mystery
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500Rey Julien
Memories
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Rey Julien
raining Day
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Rey Julien
Shade
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Shiny in the rain
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100- Sold
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The Return
19 x 19 cmSGD 390 Rey Julien
The end of doubt
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Sforza
13 x 13 cmSGD 230