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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111 Artworks
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Ellipsis
80 x 80 cm39.900 TRYRey Julien
Shiny in the rain
36 x 36 cm11.445 TRYRey Julien
Ici et là
100 x 100 cm60.900 TRY- Sold
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Hear me
36 x 36 cm11.445 TRY Rey Julien
Skylight
36 x 36 cm11.445 TRYRey Julien
Manna hatta
50 x 50 cm19.950 TRYRey Julien
Mystery
80 x 80 cm39.900 TRYRey Julien
Hongaï
100 x 100 cm60.900 TRY- Sold
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Peacefully
100 x 100 cm60.900 TRY Rey Julien
Evasion
80 x 80 cm39.900 TRYRey Julien
Here I am
40 x 120 cm32.400 TRYRey Julien
Hôtel-Dieu
120 x 40 cm32.400 TRYRey Julien
Crépuscule lyonnais
100 x 100 cm60.900 TRYRey Julien
Hôtel-Dieu
80 x 80 cm39.900 TRYRey Julien
Instinct
50 x 50 cm19.950 TRYRey Julien
Promenade Nocturne
80 x 80 cm39.900 TRYRey Julien
Stampede
80 x 80 cm39.900 TRYRey Julien
Vol de nuit
80 x 80 cm39.900 TRYRey Julien
MAJESTIC
36 x 36 cm11.445 TRYRey Julien
Still here
36 x 36 cm11.445 TRYRey Julien
Ekombre
100 x 100 cm60.900 TRYRey Julien
Fantastic
36 x 36 cm11.445 TRY- Sold
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Le Dome
19 x 19 cm4.095 TRY Rey Julien
Sforza
13 x 13 cm2.625 TRYRey Julien
Manna_hatta
36 x 36 cm11.445 TRYRey Julien
Flat iron
19 x 19 cm4.095 TRYRey Julien
Dawn
80 x 80 cm39.900 TRY- Sold
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Peaceful world
36 x 36 cm11.445 TRY - Sold
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Des Toits de Lyon
120 x 40 cm32.400 TRY Rey Julien
Artefact II
100 x 100 cm60.900 TRYRey Julien
Ballade
80 x 80 cm39.900 TRYRey Julien
Avant la Tempête
80 x 80 cm39.900 TRYRey Julien
Vanish
100 x 100 cm60.900 TRYRey Julien
Sovereign
100 x 100 cm60.900 TRYRey Julien
Balade Lyonnaise
50 x 50 cm19.950 TRYRey Julien
Cervin
80 x 80 cm39.900 TRYRey Julien
Manna Hatta
80 x 80 cm39.900 TRYRey Julien
Paramount
70 x 70 cm33.040 TRYRey Julien
Les sommets
80 x 80 cm39.900 TRYRey Julien
l'appel de la nature
100 x 100 cm60.900 TRYRey Julien
Bivouac
25 x 25 cm6.615 TRYRey Julien
Epsylon
36 x 36 cm11.445 TRYRey Julien
Anathema
50 x 50 cm19.950 TRYRey Julien
Remente
50 x 50 cm19.950 TRY- Sold
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Nocturne
50 x 50 cm19.950 TRY Rey Julien
genesis
50 x 50 cm19.950 TRY- Sold
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Skyline
50 x 50 cm19.950 TRY Rey Julien
Cervin
25 x 25 cm6.615 TRYRey Julien
Crossfire
36 x 36 cm11.445 TRYRey Julien
L'olivier
80 x 80 cm39.900 TRYRey Julien
Artefact
100 x 100 cm60.900 TRYRey Julien
Element
100 x 100 cm60.900 TRYRey Julien
Alchimia
120 x 40 cm32.400 TRYRey Julien
Infinity
80 x 80 cm39.900 TRYRey Julien
Astoria
80 x 80 cm39.900 TRYRey Julien
Galaxy
100 x 100 cm60.900 TRYRey Julien
Alchimia
36 x 36 cm11.445 TRYRey Julien
Symphony
36 x 36 cm11.445 TRY- Sold
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The Flatiron
25 x 25 cm6.615 TRY - Sold
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Duomo Twilight
25 x 25 cm6.615 TRY