Rey Julien | Contemporary Artist: Artworks & Biography
Rey Julien
- France
Painter
- Best-sellers' artworks
1968 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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158 Artworks
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Bulding
13 x 13 cmUSD 175 - Sold
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North Face
120 x 40 cmUSD 2,250 Rey Julien
Hongaï
100 x 100 cmUSD 4,900Rey Julien
Any where you go
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Rey Julien
We own the night
100 x 100 cmUSD 4,900Rey Julien
Crossfire
36 x 36 cmUSD 730Rey Julien
The end of doubt
36 x 36 cmUSD 730Rey Julien
Everlast
25 x 25 cmUSD 450Rey Julien
Milenium
120 x 40 cmUSD 2,250Rey Julien
Instinct
50 x 50 cmUSD 1,450Rey Julien
Hightower
80 x 80 cmUSD 3,200Rey Julien
Les sommets
80 x 80 cmUSD 3,200Rey Julien
Dear you
36 x 36 cmUSD 730- Sold
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RANA
36 x 36 cmUSD 730 Rey Julien
Vent dans les feuilles
36 x 36 cmUSD 730Rey Julien
Hôtel-Dieu
120 x 40 cmUSD 2,250Rey Julien
Solar Flair
80 x 80 cmUSD 3,200Rey Julien
View Across
36 x 36 cmUSD 730Rey Julien
Sforza
13 x 13 cmUSD 175Rey Julien
Arbre de vie
USD 3,700Rey Julien
Infinity
36 x 36 cmUSD 730Rey Julien
Rough
25 x 25 cmUSD 450Rey Julien
Future love
25 x 25 cmUSD 450Rey Julien
Talent designs
25 x 25 cmUSD 450Rey Julien
Manna hatta
50 x 50 cmUSD 1,450Rey Julien
The night start
36 x 36 cmUSD 730Rey Julien
Fantastic
36 x 36 cmUSD 730Rey Julien
Mystery
100 x 100 cmUSD 4,900Rey Julien
Flatiron
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Rey Julien
Run out
36 x 36 cmUSD 730- Sold
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lovely feeling
19 x 19 cmUSD 275 Rey Julien
Rendez-vous
13 x 13 cmUSD 175Rey Julien
Down the road
80 x 80 cmUSD 3,200Rey Julien
Les vélos
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Rey Julien
Here I am again
36 x 36 cmUSD 730Rey Julien
Promise of the Unknown
13 x 13 cmUSD 175Rey Julien
The Beauty of the Night
36 x 36 cmUSD 730Rey Julien
White Winter
25 x 25 cmUSD 450Rey Julien
Spirit
36 x 36 cmUSD 730- Sold
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RAINING IN PARADISE
25 x 25 cmUSD 450 Rey Julien
Jungle
120 x 40 cmUSD 2,250Rey Julien
Here I am
40 x 120 cmUSD 2,250Rey Julien
After the rain
25 x 25 cmUSD 450Rey Julien
A peaceful world
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Rey Julien
Origins
120 x 40 cmUSD 2,250Rey Julien
Hotel Dieu
25 x 25 cmUSD 450Rey Julien
Stampede
80 x 80 cmUSD 3,200Rey Julien
You and I
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Rey Julien
Vol de nuit
80 x 80 cmUSD 3,200- Sold
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Under the tree
25 x 25 cmUSD 450 - Sold
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Duomo au matin
36 x 36 cmUSD 730 Rey Julien
Take a trip
13 x 13 cmUSD 175Rey Julien
feeling
13 x 13 cmUSD 175Rey Julien
Arkan
25 x 25 cmUSD 450Rey Julien
Alchimia
36 x 36 cmUSD 730Rey Julien
Still here
36 x 36 cmUSD 730Rey Julien
We own the night
80 x 80 cmUSD 3,200Rey Julien
Shiny in the rain
36 x 36 cmUSD 730Rey Julien
Sovereign
100 x 100 cmUSD 4,900Rey Julien
Sur les Hauteurs
36 x 36 cmUSD 730