Johanne8 (1974) - Mattia et Phoebe forever

Painting on canvas rolled up and not mounted on a frame (to be mounted directly by a framing professional), by the Artist JOHANNE 8 permanently exhibited for 20 years in galleries in France and Europe and Asia. Solo show and collective exhibitions with Ben Frost, Robert combas, speedy graphito, Hervé si rosa, Miss.Tic…
Various fairs represented by galleries at Urban art Fair paris, Art-Up (Lille art Fair), Art Taipei… press releases: l'express, Air France magazine, Artittude Tome 2 and the latest release currently in the world The bible calligraphy (101 artists), AD Spain, Marie Claire house etc…

BIOGRAPHIE
A name that resonates like a lucky charm when you know the symbolic meaning of the number attached to this young artist’s first name. After a career in aeronautics, she decides to return to her lifelong passion.
Born in Lyon in 1974, Johanne 8 lives and creates today in Paris. A confirmed contemporary art artist, she has been exhibiting her paintings and sculptures since 2008 in renowned galleries. Her works have been shown from Melbourne to Barcelona, passing through Lausanne or Geneva, as well as in France: Paris, Deauville, Megève, Courchevel, Arcachon, or Saint-Tropez…
She has also invested prestigious venues such as the Grand Palais de Lille for Lille Art-Up or L’Urban Art-Fair in Paris.
Johanne 8 imagines luminous and colorful paintings in her studio that all tell a story. Her story!!!…
Thus the artist today defines herself as an heir to Bad Painting, a movement of American graffiti artists. She joins the young artistic movement of the « Street Pop » which she shares with other artists like Benjamin Spark, a young and talented Belgian artist.
Observed and chosen by major fashion names Paul&Joe, Karl Lagerfeld (Chanel) and Olivier Rousteing (Balmain); and by French gastronomy, the three-Michelin-starred chef Anne Sophie Pic, Johanne 8 continues her path and constantly renews herself.
When Johanne 8 returns to Paris, it is to devote herself fully to her first loves: she writes screenplays for cinema and television. At the same time, she picks up the brushes again and exhibits canvases where the diversity of techniques used goes hand in hand with the plurality and the richness of visual codes.
Intentionally, Johanne 8 makes images clash, intertwined with words, in order to transcribe her inner turmoil and the variety of her artistic and cultural references. She invites the viewer to reflect on their own cultural mosaic, on what makes up our mixed identities today.
She has just developed a new technique to add extra depth to her creations, drawing inspiration from the candy brands she loves to place on the canvases (Milky Way, Bounty, Galak, Mars…).
This is not without recalling that the artist grew up in the 80s and is fully imbued with that culture.
In her paintings you will no doubt find references to those who have always inspired her, Basquiat, Warhol, Lichtenstein, Erro, or Julio Le Parc.
Her universe also encompasses Pulp, 1950s comics, as well as international current affairs and major social themes.
As for the 8 beside her name, it is the day-of-birth number of her son Mattia.