Johanne8 (1974) - PINK COCO SNOW WHITE

“Deadly combat between two civilizations” 116x89cm.
Painting on canvas XXL 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 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, Artit tude 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 first name of this young artist. 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 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 invested prestigious venues such as the Grand Palais de Lille for Lille Art-Up or L’Urban Art-Fair in Paris.
Johanne 8 imagin es in her studio luminous and colorful paintings that tell a story. Her story!!!…
Thus the artist today defines herself as an heir of 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 fashion big 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 never stops renewing herself.
When Johanne 8 returns to settle in 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.
Voluntarily Johanne 8 makes images clash, interwoven with words, in order to transcribe her inner turmoil and the variety of her artistic and cultural references. She allows the viewer to question their own cultural mosaic, what today makes up our mixed identities.
She has just developed a new technique to give an extra relief to her creations, drawing inspiration from the candy brands she loves to place on the canvases (Milky Way, Bounty, Galak, Mars…).
Which is not unlikely given that the artist grew up in the 80s and is fully immersed in that culture.
In her canvases you will most certainly find references to those who have always inspired her, Basquiat, Warhol, Lichtenstein, Erro or Julio Le Parc.
Her universe is also Pulp, 1950s comics, as well as international current events and major social themes.
As for the 8 beside her first name, it is the birth-day number of her son Mattia.