Rey Julien | Contemporary Artist: Artworks & Biography
Rey Julien
- France
Painter
- Best-sellers' artworks
1993 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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141 Artworks
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Mystery
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200- Sold
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Modern times
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200 Rey Julien
Ekombre
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500Rey Julien
Dies Irae
25 x 25 cmSGD 650- Sold
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Olivier au matin
50 x 50 cmSGD 2,150 Rey Julien
Voyage
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500Rey Julien
Voyager
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Nova
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500Rey Julien
Terra Nova
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500Rey Julien
City Never Sleep
25 x 25 cmSGD 650Rey Julien
Souvenirs
120 x 40 cmSGD 3,950Rey Julien
Levant
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500Rey Julien
Skyline
120 x 40 cmSGD 3,950Rey Julien
Mistral
120 x 120 cmSGD 9,800- Sold
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City Of Love
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200 Rey Julien
Antik
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500Rey Julien
Eternity
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Rey Julien
Memories
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Rey Julien
North Face
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Rey Julien
Falling
120 x 40 cmSGD 3,950Rey Julien
Exodus
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Rey Julien
Manna-hatta
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Rey Julien
Infinity
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Rey Julien
Mystery
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Rey Julien
Alchimia
120 x 40 cmSGD 3,950Rey Julien
Element
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500Rey Julien
Galaxy
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500Rey Julien
L'olivier
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Rey Julien
Vol de nuit
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Rey Julien
You and I
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Rey Julien
Avant la Tempête
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Rey Julien
Galaxy
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200- Sold
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The beauty of City
19 x 19 cmSGD 390 Rey Julien
Eternity
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Alchimia
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
We own the night
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500Rey Julien
We own the night
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Rey Julien
Sur les Hauteurs
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Stampede
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500Rey Julien
Les sommets
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Rey Julien
raining Day
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Rey Julien
Epsylon
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Appel de la nature
50 x 50 cmSGD 2,150Rey Julien
The Lost
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Shade
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Dark Night
40 x 120 cmSGD 3,950Rey Julien
On the run
50 x 50 cmSGD 2,150Rey Julien
Any where you go
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Rey Julien
Shades
19 x 19 cmSGD 390Rey Julien
Promise of the Unknown
13 x 13 cmSGD 230Rey Julien
Milenium
120 x 40 cmSGD 3,950Rey Julien
Simplon
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Hongaï
100 x 100 cmSGD 7,500Rey Julien
Shiny in the rain
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Hotel Dieu
25 x 25 cmSGD 650- Sold
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View Across
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100 Rey Julien
High time
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Rey Julien
Terra nova
80 x 80 cmSGD 5,200Rey Julien
Crossfire
36 x 36 cmSGD 1,100Rey Julien
Talent designs
25 x 25 cmSGD 650