Johanne8 (1974) - ALIVE (BLUE LOBSTER)

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Painting on canvas 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 one knows the symbolic meaning of the number attached to the artist’s first name. After a career in aviation, she decides to return to her lifelong passion.
Born in Lyon in 1974, Johanne 8 lives and creates today in Paris. An established contemporary artist, she has been presenting her paintings and sculptures since 2008 in recognized galleries. Her works are exhibited from Melbourne to Barcelona, via Lausanne or Geneva, as well as in France: Paris, Deauville, Megève, Courchevel, Arcachon, or Saint-Tropez…
She has also ventured into prestigious venues such as the Grand Palais de Lille for Lille Art-Up or L’Urban Art‑Fair in Paris.
Johanne 8 imagines in her studio luminous and colorful canvases that 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 “Street Pop” which she shares with other artists like Benjamin Spark, a young and talented Belgian artist.
Observed and chosen by the 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 keeps renewing herself.
When Johanne 8 returns to Paris, it is to devote herself fully to her first loves: she writes screenplays intended 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 flourishing of visual codes.
Deliberately Johanne 8 makes images collide, mingled with words, in order to transcribe her inner whirl and the variety of her artistic and cultural references. She allows the viewer to question their own cultural mosaic, what constitutes today our mixed identities.
She has recently developed a new technique to give extra depth to her creations, drawing inspiration from the candy brands she likes to stamp on the canvases (Milky Way, Bounty, Galak, Mars…).
This is not without recall that the artist grew up in the 80s and is fully imbued with that culture.
In her paintings you will surely find references to those who have always inspired her, Basquiat, Warhol, Lichtenstein, Erro or Julio Le Parc.
Her universe also includes Pulp, the comics of the 1950s, as well as international current affairs and major social themes.
As for the 8 attached to her first name, it is the day-of-birth number of her son Mattia.