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 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, Artitude 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 sounds 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 aerospace, she returns to her lifetime 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 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 de Lille for Lille Art-Up or L’Urban Art-Fair in Paris.
Johanne 8 envisions in her studio luminous and colorful canvases that tell a story. Her story!!!…
Thus the artist defines herself today 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’s great 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 resumes the brushes and exhibits canvases where the diversity of techniques used goes hand in hand with the plurality and the flourishing of visual codes.
Intentionally, Johanne 8 makes images collide, mingled 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 makes up today our mixed identities.
She has just developed a new technique to give extra relief to her creations, drawing inspiration from candy brands she likes to stamp on the canvases (Milky Way, Bounty, Galak, Mars…).
This is not without recalling that the artist grew up in the 1980s and is fully saturated with 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 is also Pulp, 1950s comics, as well as international current affairs and major social themes.
As for the 8 attached to her first name, it is the birthdate of her son Mattia.