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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(96 Artworks)
96 Artworks
Rey Julien
Ekombre
100 x 100 cm60.900 TRYRey Julien
Ballade
80 x 80 cm39.900 TRYRey Julien
Remente
50 x 50 cm19.950 TRYRey Julien
Millenium
100 x 100 cm60.900 TRYRey Julien
Terra Nova
100 x 100 cm60.900 TRYRey Julien
Night atmosphere
80 x 80 cm39.900 TRYRey Julien
Up rizing
100 x 100 cm60.900 TRYRey Julien
Anathema
50 x 50 cm19.950 TRY- Sold
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Manna-hatta
50 x 50 cm19.950 TRY Rey Julien
L'olivier
80 x 80 cm39.900 TRYRey Julien
Everlast
25 x 25 cm6.615 TRYRey Julien
Simplon
36 x 36 cm11.445 TRY- Sold
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Stole my heart
25 x 25 cm6.615 TRY Rey Julien
Mystery
80 x 80 cm39.900 TRYRey Julien
Alchimia
36 x 36 cm11.445 TRYRey Julien
Alchimia
120 x 40 cm32.400 TRYRey Julien
Still here
36 x 36 cm11.445 TRYRey Julien
Estampe
50 x 50 cm19.950 TRYRey Julien
Grateful Heritage
25 x 25 cm6.615 TRYRey Julien
Symphony
36 x 36 cm11.445 TRYRey Julien
Duomo au matin
36 x 36 cm11.445 TRYRey Julien
Moonlight
13 x 13 cm2.625 TRYRey Julien
Look out
36 x 36 cm11.445 TRYRey Julien
Artefact
100 x 100 cm60.900 TRYRey Julien
Early Morning
36 x 36 cm11.445 TRYRey Julien
Mistral
120 x 120 cm85.100 TRYRey Julien
A peaceful world
19 x 19 cm4.095 TRYRey Julien
Skylight
36 x 36 cm11.445 TRYRey Julien
Manna hatta
50 x 50 cm19.950 TRYRey Julien
Night life
36 x 36 cm11.445 TRYRey Julien
Element
100 x 100 cm60.900 TRYRey Julien
Crépuscule lyonnais
100 x 100 cm60.900 TRYRey Julien
Wild
100 x 100 cm60.900 TRYRey Julien
Everlast
36 x 36 cm11.445 TRYRey Julien
Think of
25 x 25 cm6.615 TRYRey Julien
Stampede
80 x 80 cm39.900 TRYRey Julien
Here I am again
36 x 36 cm11.445 TRYRey Julien
genesis
50 x 50 cm19.950 TRYRey Julien
Les sommets
80 x 80 cm39.900 TRYRey Julien
Ici et là
100 x 100 cm60.900 TRYRey Julien
Sforza
13 x 13 cm2.625 TRYRey Julien
Here I am
40 x 120 cm32.400 TRYRey Julien
Hôtel-Dieu
120 x 40 cm32.400 TRYRey Julien
Vanish
100 x 100 cm60.900 TRYRey Julien
Take a trip
13 x 13 cm2.625 TRYRey Julien
Levant
100 x 100 cm60.900 TRYRey Julien
Cervin
80 x 80 cm39.900 TRY- Sold
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Please remember
19 x 19 cm4.095 TRY Rey Julien
Vol de nuit
80 x 80 cm39.900 TRYRey Julien
Enjoy the day
36 x 36 cm11.445 TRYRey Julien
Skyline
120 x 40 cm32.400 TRYRey Julien
Ellipsis
80 x 80 cm39.900 TRY- Sold
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Manna-Hatta
36 x 36 cm11.445 TRY Rey Julien
Köln
25 x 25 cm6.615 TRY- Sold
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Raindrop
25 x 25 cm6.615 TRY Rey Julien
Artefact II
100 x 100 cm60.900 TRYRey Julien
Fantastic
36 x 36 cm11.445 TRYRey Julien
Crossfire
36 x 36 cm11.445 TRYRey Julien
Memories
80 x 80 cm39.900 TRYRey Julien
North Face
120 x 40 cm32.400 TRY