Rey Julien | Contemporary Artist: Artworks & Biography
Rey Julien
- France
Painter
- Best-sellers' artworks
1971 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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130 Artworks
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Modern times
80 x 80 cm39.900 TRY Rey Julien
Remente
50 x 50 cm19.950 TRYRey Julien
Ekombre
100 x 100 cm60.900 TRY- Sold
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Night view
32.400 TRY Rey Julien
Olivier au matin
50 x 50 cm19.950 TRYRey Julien
Voyage
100 x 100 cm60.900 TRYRey Julien
Voyager
36 x 36 cm11.445 TRYRey Julien
Nova
100 x 100 cm60.900 TRYRey Julien
Terra Nova
100 x 100 cm60.900 TRYRey Julien
City Never Sleep
25 x 25 cm6.615 TRYRey Julien
Souvenirs
120 x 40 cm32.400 TRYRey Julien
Levant
100 x 100 cm60.900 TRYRey Julien
Skyline
120 x 40 cm32.400 TRY- Sold
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Artefact
120 x 120 cm85.100 TRY Rey Julien
Mistral
120 x 120 cm85.100 TRYRey Julien
Be with me
80 x 80 cm39.900 TRY- Sold
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City Of Love
80 x 80 cm39.900 TRY Rey Julien
Memories
80 x 80 cm39.900 TRYRey Julien
North Face
80 x 80 cm39.900 TRYRey Julien
Falling
120 x 40 cm32.400 TRYRey Julien
Exodus
80 x 80 cm39.900 TRYRey Julien
Manna-hatta
80 x 80 cm39.900 TRYRey Julien
Infinity
80 x 80 cm39.900 TRYRey Julien
Mystery
80 x 80 cm39.900 TRYRey Julien
Alchimia
120 x 40 cm32.400 TRYRey Julien
Element
100 x 100 cm60.900 TRYRey Julien
Galaxy
100 x 100 cm60.900 TRYRey Julien
L'olivier
80 x 80 cm39.900 TRYRey Julien
Vol de nuit
80 x 80 cm39.900 TRYRey Julien
Hongaï
100 x 100 cm60.900 TRYRey Julien
Vent dans les feuilles
36 x 36 cm11.445 TRYRey Julien
The night start
36 x 36 cm11.445 TRYRey Julien
We own the night
100 x 100 cm60.900 TRYRey Julien
Fantastic
36 x 36 cm11.445 TRYRey Julien
fall of light
19 x 19 cm4.095 TRYRey Julien
The Lost
36 x 36 cm11.445 TRYRey Julien
Mistral
25 x 25 cm6.615 TRYRey Julien
feeling
13 x 13 cm2.625 TRYRey Julien
Les vélos
19 x 19 cm4.095 TRYRey Julien
Hôtel-Dieu
120 x 40 cm32.400 TRYRey Julien
fresh
19 x 19 cm4.095 TRY- Sold
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Bulding
13 x 13 cm2.625 TRY - Sold
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Cervin
25 x 25 cm6.615 TRY Rey Julien
Early Morning
36 x 36 cm11.445 TRYRey Julien
The end of doubt
36 x 36 cm11.445 TRYRey Julien
Sovereign
100 x 100 cm60.900 TRYRey Julien
Shade
36 x 36 cm11.445 TRY- Sold
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lovely feeling
19 x 19 cm4.095 TRY Rey Julien
Epsylon
36 x 36 cm11.445 TRYRey Julien
genesis
50 x 50 cm19.950 TRYRey Julien
Shiny in the rain
36 x 36 cm11.445 TRYRey Julien
Tarak
120 x 40 cm32.400 TRYRey Julien
Indochine
19 x 19 cm4.095 TRYRey Julien
Rendez-vous lyonnais
120 x 40 cm32.400 TRY- Sold
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RANA
36 x 36 cm11.445 TRY Rey Julien
We own the night
80 x 80 cm39.900 TRY- Sold
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becoming
19 x 19 cm4.095 TRY Rey Julien
Sky light
40 x 120 cm32.400 TRYRey Julien
Welcome to Heaven
25 x 25 cm6.615 TRYRey Julien
Seascape
19 x 19 cm4.095 TRY