JOHANNE 8 (1974) - TWIX

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 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 resonates like a good luck charm when you know the symbolic meaning of the number attached to this young artist’s first name. After a career in aviation, she decides to return 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 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 forged a presence in 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 heiress 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 major fashion names Paul&Joe, Karl Lagerfeld (Chanel) and Olivier Rousteing (Balmain); and in French gastronomy, triple-starred chef Anne-Sophie Pic, Johanne 8 continues her path and continually renews 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 flowering of visual codes.
Intentionally, Johanne 8 makes images clash, mingled with words, in order to transcribe her inner excitement and the variety of her artistic and cultural references. She allows the viewer to question their own cultural mosaic, what makes up today our mixed identities.
She has just developed a new technique to give an extra relief to her creations, drawing inspiration from candy brands she likes to stamp on the canvases (Milky Way, Bounty, Galak, Mars…).
This recalls that the artist grew up in the 80s and is fully immersed 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 includes Pulp, 1950s comics, as well as international news and major societal themes.
As for the 8 placed next to her first name, it is the birth day number of her son Mattia.