Johanne8 (1974) - An Evening With Friends

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, Artit+ude 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 rings 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 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 imagines in her studio luminous and colorful paintings 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 the fashion greats Paul&Joe, Karl Lagerfeld (Chanel), and Olivier Rousteing (Balmain); and by French gastronomy, the three-star 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 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 flourishing of visual codes.
Deliberately Johanne 8 makes images collide, mixed 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 constitutes today our mixed identities.
She has recently developed a new technique to add 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 given that the artist grew up in the 80s and is fully imbued with 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 current events and major social themes.
As for the 8 beside her first name, it is the day-number of her son Mattia’s birth.