Johanne8 (1974) - DEAD (RED LOBSTER)

Painting on canvas by the Artist JOHANNE 8 permanently exhibited for 20 years in galleries in France and Europe and Asia. Solo shows and collective exhibitions with Ben Frost, Robert Combas, Speedy Graphito, Hervé Di 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 Maison etc…

BIOGRAPHY
A name that resonates like a good luck charm when you know the symbolic meaning of the number attached to the artist’s first name. After a career in aerospace, she decides to return to her lifelong passion.
Born in Lyon in 1974, Johanne 8 lives and works today in Paris. A confirmed contemporary artist, she has been exhibiting her paintings and sculptures since 2008 in well‑known galleries. Her works have been shown from Melbourne to Barcelona, via Lausanne or Geneva, as well as in France: Paris, Deauville, Megève, Courchevel, Arcachon, or Saint‑Tropez…

She has also managed to invest 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 great names of fashion 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 settle in Paris, it is to devote herself fully to her first loves: she writes screenplays destined 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.

Johanne 8 deliberately has images clash, interwoven with words, in order to convey her inner buzzing and the variety of her artistic and cultural references. She allows the viewer to question their own cultural mosaic, the makeup of today’s blended identities.

She has just developed a new technique to give extra relief to her creations, drawing inspiration from candy brands she loves to stamp on the canvases (Milky Way, Bounty, Galak, Mars…).

This is not without reminding us that the artist grew up in the 1980s and is fully soaked in that culture.

In her canvases 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, 1950s comics, as well as current international events and the great themes of society.

As for the 8 next to her first name, it is the day‑of‑birth number for her son Mattia.