Nov 15, 2016
Johanne 8 ; A name that resonates like a lucky charm when one knows the symbolic meaning of the number attached to the first name of this young artist from Lyons. After a career in aeronautics, she decided to return to her passion for everyday life.
Artist inspired by Liberty, Johanne 8 speaks about society, violence, sexuality, the suffering of people, their little happiness, their smallness in a style inspired by comics, mangas, graff and Pop-Art.
In his paintings, there are many references to the memories of his childhood, to the characters who accompanied him like the superheroes, the American pulps and comics of the 50s, Hello Kitty, Walt Disney but also many winks to US, logos, pubs and all its inspirations from the street …
Johanne 8 was born in Lyon in 1974. She lives and works today in Paris.
It is the curiosity of the world and cultures that takes JOHHANNE 8 on the paths of art. Everywhere she paints, writes and sticks from her earliest age. These many journeys she makes will impregnate in her mind the strong images that are found today in these paintings.
It is especially during a passage in New York that JOHANNE 8 discovers Basquiat. It is an emotional and artistic shock for her, which will now plunge into North American urban culture.
This is how the artist defines himself today as an heiress of Bad Painting, a movement of American graffiti artists. She joined the young artistic movement of “Street Pop” which she shared with other artists like Benjamin Spark, young and talented Belgian artist.
When Johanne 8 returns to settle in Paris, it is to dedicate herself fully to her first love: she writes scenarios for cinema and television. At the same time, she took over the brushes and exhibited paintings where the diversity of the techniques used goes hand in hand with the plurality and the proliferation of visual codes.
Johanne 8 conjugates images, mingled with words, in order to transcribe its inner bubbling and the variety of its artistic and cultural references. It allows the viewer to wonder about his own cultural mosaic, about what constitutes today our mixed identities.
Discovered by a first Parisian gallery in the Marais district, the artist now exhibits his paintings in France and abroad.
The ready-to-wear brand Paul & Joe even asked her to design a basketball model for their Men’s Autumn / Winter 2009/2010 collection ….
Oct 10, 2016
who signs his works COSTA, was a French sculptor, welder, born 29 December 1970 in Sarlat.
Portuguese son of emigrants, he became steward aboard the liner Queen Elizabeth 2 from 1991 to 1993 and from 1994 to 1997, between the Trust House Forte service first global chain of luxury hôtels.
In 1998 he left the world of hotels to devote himself to artistic creation. Passionate about contemporary art in 1998 he became signs of recovery scrapped. All his work is done with antique panels to which the artist gives a second life.
Costa, artist, size pieces of road signs, delivering lying sculptures, mosaics bright enamel plates. It recreates the sense with an innate talent for aesthetics and balance of shapes and colors. In 2013, Costa was admitted to the exclusive club of artists in the Le Mans 24 Hours which he signs the official Art Car.
The welded panels of Costa often tell stories, with humor, at the confluence of several artistic movements, the New Realists, Pop Art and Street Art. Sometimes figurative, sometimes abstract, his works challenge for their construction and the special place that is made for color.
Costa gives life to these urban materials both integral to our daily and universal language. His works are in his image, both raw and full of subtleties.
Costa’s work has this magic that is joyous and unique. It took time and perseverance to make his work but is now one of the most quoted artists of his generation and exhibits in the world: Paris, Geneva, London, Brussels … and even New York and Beijing.
In 2013 it was the 18th artist in the world selected to create the “Art Car” of 24 hours of Le Mans. Consecration for him after Calder, Warhol, César, Arman and Jeff Koons …
Aug 23, 2016
Fabien Novarino was born in 1963 in Chambéry.
Originally from Savoie, Fabien NOVARINO spent his childhood at the heart of the mountains where he devoted himself to the pleasures of drawing, painting and model making.
Fabien NOVARINO would then move to the south of France with his family. His love for large spaces would therefore be disrupted by this radical change, bothin terms of climate and landscape. This new settlement would heavily influence him and definitivelyfix his determination to become a painter.
He would pursue literary studies and assiduously frequent museums and exhibitions before embracing a commercial career.
Aged 27, Fabien Novarino stopped his professional career to dedicate himself exclusively to the pursuit of his childhood passion. Initially close to the Provencal school, he produced many canvases with different figurative subjects, ranging from landscapes from his region to representations of scenes from everyday life.
The colours were bright and the movements are expressive. He would then wide his field of exploration turning towards resolutely different locations with marked contrasts such as New York, Paris or even Morocco.
Since 2010, Fabien Novarino has integrated photography into his works, evolving his pictorial work towards a more contemporary language. From personal or professional clichés acquired in offices, Fabien designs original graphic works that come from the Neo Pop style – a worthy successor to the Pop Art movement born in the 1950s.
Produced from a subtle mixture of collages, drawings and stencils, his canvases are inspired by icons of American and French cinema, modern urbanism and the world of comics. Firmly contemporary, his art is a true homage to the society of entertainment.
Because he has the talent and spontaneity of real artists, it catches the light solids by vigorous, never seem laborious us or worker.
His works touch us naturally removed by the flaming colors of his imagination.
He recites his feelings on the soft palette and magic of his art. Violent and tender at once, he knows in his paintings vibrate all the love of his craft. It would be useless to track the number of its awards, or to quote the collectors around the world who loved his working.
Aug 16, 2016
Born in 1960 in Paris, Patrick Rubinstein is a contemporary French artist from the world of fashion working his paintings on a concept of OPT ART (Kinetic Art).
Thanks to an innovative technique his works offers you 3 different views depending on your angle vision and giving you 3 times more emotions.
You would like to see the idols of your youth? Patrick Rubinstein stages them for you by combining a unique optical game to another image. For Michael Jackson? A graph of “Beat It” in a nod to his worldwide hit in 1982.
The Beatles? The Union Jack. For the four giants of the fifties, Spiderman, Betty Boop, Super Man and Marilyn?… The same, but in color or black and white, depending on the angle of view … We are in the pop and street art, game design, dynamic and generous. But in the op art, optical art, which plays everything and especially to us, to our delight.
Everything begins as Patrick Rubinstein is still a teenager. He loves art, film cameras and kinetics. What to choose between the three? Nothing – that is all. It sectional lamella a picture, the intercalates with another, then glue the image reconstructed on a support, a tent folded up concertina and obtained a work in relief.
From the front, the picture is double, the two photos overlap, but for perspective, the effect is stunning. Depending on the angle, there appears only one of the two images. His concept was born in 3D.
His first creations are made from portraits of his relatives. A mother and son, brother and sister, father and daughter … Quickly, his visual game is a great success beyond his entourage. It must continue – all is how? His technique is still too small-scale to support more sophisticated designs, even more so in size XXL.
Aug 16, 2016
Benjamin Spark is a French painter born in 1969. He lives and works in Brussels.
At the age of 28, Spark is part of the Fine Arts in Paris before flying to the United States for inspiration. He then moved back to Belgium to perfect his style. He devoted himself entirely to his art.
It draws on the mass media, caricature, advertising, and most of the comic. It is directly in line with the Pop Art movement, and more specifically from Pop Art Brussels. This is an unusual mix of European urban art and the influences of the AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE.
He developed his own techniques and a very special skill, with highly finished compositions. Spark feeds the world around him to recreate his own universe full of humor. Through painting, he expresses his feelings and his feelings towards the world. Refreshing, his works announced a new milestone in Pop Art.
His works have evolved over time, particularly following the arrival of the internet, which will amend the agreements previously established by s.
Since 2007, Spark has exhibited in Paris, Brussels, Düsseldorf, New York, Marrakech and more.
Benjamin Spark is a major artist on the French scene of urban neo-pop art.
Approach:
His work will arise a complex patchwork influenced by the narrative figuration, graffiti, tag, manga and Pop Art. All for lying compositions on canvas where necessary contemporary graphic icons.
His artistic culture is at the height of his career.
By copying the images of our popular culture, the artist is not interested in reproduction as such but the memories and beliefs associated with it. This is a significant reclaiming the imagination of the industry.
The artist says: “What interests me is that produce images that produce forms. Each work is a clean path. “
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