JOHANNE 8 (1974) - LION

Painting on XXL rolled canvas 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 shows and group 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 resonates 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 aeronautics, she returns to her lifelong passion.
Born in Lyon in 1974, Johanne 8 lives and creates today in Paris. An established contemporary artist, she has been exhibiting her paintings and sculptures since 2008 in respected galleries. Her works have been shown from Melbourne to Barcelona, via Lausanne or Geneva, as well as in France: Paris, Deauville, Megève, Courchevel, Arcachon, and 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 conceives luminous and colorful paintings in her studio that each 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 icons 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, she dedicates herself fully to her first loves: she writes screenplays for cinema and television. At the same time, she picks up the brushes again and displays canvases where the diversity of techniques used goes hand in hand with the plurality and abundance of visual codes.
Deliberately, Johanne 8 makes images clash, mingled with words, in order to convey her inner turmoil and the variety of her artistic and cultural references. She allows the viewer to question their own cultural mosaic, what constitutes today our blended 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 surprising, since the artist grew up in the 1980s and is fully steeped in 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 encompasses Pulp, 1950s comics, as well as international current affairs and major social themes.
As for the 8 beside her name, it is the birth day number of her son Mattia.