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 the artist’s first name. After a career in aviation, she returns to her lifelong passion. Born in Lyon in 1974, Johanne 8 lives and creates today in Paris. An established contemporary art artist, she has been exhibiting her paintings and sculptures since 2008 in recognized galleries. Her works are 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 invested prestigious venues such as the Grand Palais in Lille for Lille Art-Up or L’Urban Art-Fair in Paris. Johanne 8 imagines in her studio luminous and colorful canvases that tell one 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,” shared with other artists like Benjamin Spark, a young and talented Belgian artist. Observed and chosen by fashion greats 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 for cinema and television. At the same time, she takes up brushes again and exhibits canvases where the diversity of techniques employed goes hand in hand with the plurality and the flowering of visual codes. Deliberately 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 allows the spectator to question their own cultural mosaic, what constitutes today our mixed identities. She has just devised a new technique to give extra depth to her creations, drawing inspiration from confectionery brands she loves to stamp on the canvases (Milky Way, Bounty, Galak, Mars…). This is not unrelated to the fact that the artist grew up in the 80s and is fully permeated by that culture. In her canvases you will undoubtedly find references to those who have always inspired her, Basquiat, Warhol, Lichtenstein, Erro or Julio Le Parc. Her world also includes Pulp, 50s comics, as well as current international news and major social issues. As for the 8 placed after her name, it is the day of birth of her son Mattia."