Rey Julien | Contemporary Artist: Artworks & Biography
Rey Julien
- France
Painter
- Best-sellers' artworks
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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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(169 Artworks)
169 Artworks
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Mystery
80 x 80 cm1 900 €Rey Julien
Modern times
80 x 80 cm1 900 €Rey Julien
Remente
50 x 50 cm880 €Rey Julien
Ekombre
100 x 100 cm2 900 €Rey Julien
Dies Irae
25 x 25 cm285 €- Sold
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Night view
40 x 120 cm1 450 € - Sold
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Up rizing
100 x 100 cm2 900 € Rey Julien
Olivier au matin
50 x 50 cm880 €Rey Julien
Voyage
100 x 100 cm2 900 €- Sold
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Millenium
100 x 100 cm2 900 € Rey Julien
Voyager
36 x 36 cm480 €Rey Julien
Nova
100 x 100 cm2 900 €Rey Julien
Soleil et Lune
80 x 80 cm1 900 €Rey Julien
Terra Nova
100 x 100 cm2 900 €Rey Julien
City Never Sleep
25 x 25 cm285 €Rey Julien
Wild
100 x 100 cm2 900 €Rey Julien
Souvenirs
120 x 40 cm1 450 €Rey Julien
Levant
100 x 100 cm2 900 €Rey Julien
Elégance
80 x 80 cm1 900 €Rey Julien
Skyline
120 x 40 cm1 450 €Rey Julien
STYAMPEDE
80 x 80 cm1 900 €Rey Julien
Artemis
80 x 80 cm1 900 €- Sold
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Night view
13 x 13 cm109 € - Sold
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Artefact
120 x 120 cm3 800 € Rey Julien
Mistral
120 x 120 cm3 800 €Rey Julien
Be with me
80 x 80 cm1 900 €- Sold
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Indochine
120 x 40 cm1 450 € Rey Julien
Antik
100 x 100 cm2 900 €Rey Julien
Eternity
80 x 80 cm1 900 €Rey Julien
Memories
80 x 80 cm1 900 €Rey Julien
North Face
80 x 80 cm1 900 €Rey Julien
Falling
120 x 40 cm1 450 €Rey Julien
Exodus
80 x 80 cm1 900 €Rey Julien
Manna-hatta
80 x 80 cm1 900 €Rey Julien
Infinity
80 x 80 cm1 900 €Rey Julien
Mystery
80 x 80 cm1 900 €Rey Julien
Alchimia
120 x 40 cm1 450 €Rey Julien
Souvenirs
80 x 80 cm1 900 €Rey Julien
Element
100 x 100 cm2 900 €Rey Julien
Stamped
100 x 100 cm2 900 €Rey Julien
Galaxy
100 x 100 cm2 900 €Rey Julien
L'olivier
80 x 80 cm1 900 €Rey Julien
Vol de nuit
80 x 80 cm1 900 €Rey Julien
Alpha
100 x 100 cm2 900 €Rey Julien
Tempest
80 x 80 cm1 900 €Rey Julien
DELTA
100 x 100 cm2 900 €Rey Julien
Early Morning
36 x 36 cm480 €Rey Julien
Still here
36 x 36 cm480 €Rey Julien
Sforza
13 x 13 cm109 €Rey Julien
Ellipsis
80 x 80 cm1 900 €Rey Julien
Les vélos
19 x 19 cm170 €Rey Julien
Reflection
25 x 25 cm285 €Rey Julien
Take a trip
13 x 13 cm109 €Rey Julien
Alchimia
36 x 36 cm480 €Rey Julien
Artefact II
100 x 100 cm2 900 €- Sold
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Speed
25 x 25 cm285 € Rey Julien
Dear you
36 x 36 cm480 €Rey Julien
Stampede
80 x 80 cm1 900 €Rey Julien
Look out
36 x 36 cm480 €Rey Julien
feeling
13 x 13 cm109 €