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.
- 2015Winning the Jury’s Grand Prize as a guest of honourMollans-sur Ouvèze, France
- 2013Group exhibition at the Nuances GalleryMontreal, Canada
- 2011Winning the jury’s PrizeMalaucène, France
- 1985Birth-, France
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Ellipsis
80 x 80 cm25.500 TRYRey Julien
Indochine
100 x 100 cm33.000 TRYRey Julien
Skylight
36 x 36 cm6.450 TRYRey Julien
Peacefully
100 x 100 cm33.000 TRYRey Julien
Nova
120 x 120 cm43.000 TRYRey Julien
Exodes
100 x 100 cm33.000 TRYRey Julien
Element
100 x 100 cm33.000 TRYRey Julien
Serenity
80 x 80 cm25.500 TRYRey Julien
Astoria
80 x 80 cm25.500 TRYRey Julien
Flat Iron
19 x 19 cm2.250 TRYRey Julien
Odyssée
13 x 13 cm1.550 TRYRey Julien
Omega
13 x 13 cm1.550 TRYRey Julien
Ha-long
36 x 36 cm6.450 TRYRey Julien
The night has just begun
36 x 36 cm6.450 TRYRey Julien
genesis
50 x 50 cm12.500 TRYRey Julien
l'appel de la nature
100 x 100 cm33.000 TRYRey Julien
Remente
50 x 50 cm12.500 TRYRey Julien
Skylight
120 x 40 cm17.000 TRYRey Julien
Manna hatta
50 x 50 cm12.500 TRY- Sold
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Heroes
25 x 25 cm3.950 TRY Rey Julien
Metropolitan
40 x 120 cm17.000 TRY- Sold
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Cross road
120 x 40 cm17.000 TRY - Sold
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SWEET DAYS
36 x 36 cm6.450 TRY Rey Julien
Never change
36 x 36 cm6.450 TRYRey Julien
Empire
36 x 36 cm6.450 TRYRey Julien
il était une fois
80 x 80 cm25.500 TRY- Sold
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Dream city
36 x 36 cm6.450 TRY Rey Julien
Majestic
19 x 19 cm2.250 TRYRey Julien
Nocturne
36 x 36 cm6.450 TRYRey Julien
Still here
36 x 36 cm6.450 TRYRey Julien
PARIS ROOTH
13 x 13 cm1.550 TRYRey Julien
Hôtel-Dieu
80 x 80 cm25.500 TRYRey Julien
Skyline
50 x 50 cm12.500 TRYRey Julien
Manna-Hatta
36 x 36 cm6.450 TRYRey Julien
Au dessus des nuages
80 x 80 cm25.500 TRYRey Julien
Galaxy
100 x 100 cm33.000 TRYRey Julien
The idol
120 x 40 cm17.000 TRYRey Julien
City Night
80 x 80 cm25.500 TRYRey Julien
Paramount
70 x 70 cm16.000 TRYRey Julien
Ballade
80 x 80 cm25.500 TRYRey Julien
REVIVAL
25 x 25 cm3.950 TRY- Sold
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Recovery
100 x 100 cm33.000 TRY Rey Julien
Nocturne
50 x 50 cm12.500 TRYRey Julien
Balade Lyonnaise
50 x 50 cm12.500 TRYRey Julien
Promenade
100 x 100 cm33.000 TRYRey Julien
Promenade Nocturne
80 x 80 cm25.500 TRY- Sold
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Nocturn
80 x 80 cm25.500 TRY Rey Julien
Nature
25 x 25 cm3.950 TRY- Sold
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On the shades
19 x 19 cm2.250 TRY Rey Julien
Vanish
100 x 100 cm33.000 TRYRey Julien
Stampede
80 x 80 cm25.500 TRYRey Julien
Les sommets
80 x 80 cm25.500 TRYRey Julien
Lost paradises
80 x 80 cm25.500 TRYRey Julien
MAGESTIC
36 x 36 cm6.450 TRYRey Julien
Alchimia
120 x 40 cm17.000 TRYRey Julien
Balade
13 x 13 cm1.550 TRYRey Julien
Unnatural beauty
13 x 13 cm1.550 TRY- Sold
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Down the road
100 x 100 cm33.000 TRY - Sold
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Neijikan
50 x 50 cm12.500 TRY Rey Julien
Hôtel-Dieu
120 x 40 cm17.000 TRY