Rey Julien | Contemporary Artist: Artworks & Biography
Rey Julien
- France
Painter
- Best-sellers' artworks
1981 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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159 Artworks
Rey Julien
Sunset Over
80 x 80 cmUSD 3,200Rey Julien
Promise of the Unknown
13 x 13 cmUSD 175Rey Julien
raining Day
13 x 13 cmUSD 175Rey Julien
A peaceful world
19 x 19 cmUSD 275- Sold
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Bulding
13 x 13 cmUSD 175 Rey Julien
Epsylon
36 x 36 cmUSD 730Rey Julien
Simplon
36 x 36 cmUSD 730Rey Julien
Nebari
50 x 50 cmUSD 1,450Rey Julien
Les sommets
80 x 80 cmUSD 3,200Rey Julien
Sky light
40 x 120 cmUSD 2,250Rey Julien
Still here
36 x 36 cmUSD 730Rey Julien
Talent designs
25 x 25 cmUSD 450Rey Julien
Everlast
25 x 25 cmUSD 450Rey Julien
San Giorggio
120 x 40 cmUSD 2,250Rey Julien
Flat iron
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Rey Julien
Vanish
100 x 100 cmUSD 4,900Rey Julien
fall of light
19 x 19 cmUSD 275Rey Julien
Infinity
36 x 36 cmUSD 730Rey Julien
Terra nova
80 x 80 cmUSD 3,200- Sold
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The Return
19 x 19 cmUSD 275 Rey Julien
Vol de nuit
80 x 80 cmUSD 3,200Rey Julien
Hotel Dieu
25 x 25 cmUSD 450Rey Julien
Misty
36 x 36 cmUSD 730Rey Julien
Sapin
25 x 25 cmUSD 450Rey Julien
Appel de la nature
50 x 50 cmUSD 1,450Rey Julien
Shade
36 x 36 cmUSD 730Rey Julien
The night start
36 x 36 cmUSD 730Rey Julien
Galaxy
80 x 80 cmUSD 3,200Rey Julien
Stampede
100 x 100 cmUSD 4,900Rey Julien
Alchimia
100 x 100 cmUSD 4,900Rey Julien
Here I am again
36 x 36 cmUSD 730Rey Julien
Eternity
36 x 36 cmUSD 730Rey Julien
After the rain
25 x 25 cmUSD 450Rey Julien
Run out
36 x 36 cmUSD 730Rey Julien
Here I am
40 x 120 cmUSD 2,250- Sold
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Duomo au matin
36 x 36 cmUSD 730 Rey Julien
Dawn
80 x 80 cmUSD 3,200Rey Julien
On the run
50 x 50 cmUSD 1,450- Sold
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Cervin
25 x 25 cmUSD 450