Title: Utopia 1 Artist: Johanna Marrone Medium: Acrylics on canvas Size: Height x Width x Depth: 24" X 24" X 1.5" Click on IMAGE for larger viewARTIST STATEMENT: UTOPIA Painting is for me a unique experience one of the most fabulous and mysterious medium ever known. Creating worlds, dimensions in other words creating lives. There is no limit as far as your imagination goes. Passion is the key to arise the world of my personal imagination. As soon as I am into it, I am ready to melt colours, apply textures and deal with forms. Magic takes over! Through the years with my paintings, I discovered how far I have travelled through my work. According to me, signification is a question of reflection between forms and colours. I truly believe in the emotional language by using colours. I started exhibiting and selling my work all over the world in order to share my passion with people who enjoy dreaming and feeling. Because colours represent emotions, and forms the frames to contain them, we need to see through the painting in order to escape from a false vision. We can then speak of Abstract Art as freedom of life and freedom of mind. I apply colours by listening to my heart or even when reflecting, perhaps this enables me to get in touch with my inner feelings. Acrylic has a strong impact on the signification. The texture and the intensity of colours give more character and effect on peoples mind. It I always interesting to see how many significations a painting can pass on. By adding sparkles and gloss, I decided to pay tribute to light. The result I want to give is an emanation of mysterious and marvellous. People have to open their inside door and travel through their mind and imagination. I began a series called Utopia, in such a way, where colours can express themselves. People will be enchanted in travelling through my abstract artwork. I let this extraordinary passion of mine take over and guide me and I travel through the light to discover myself and to help people discovering themselves through colours. BIOGRAPHY: Born in 1977 in Versailles, France, Johanna Marrone grew up in Paris. She arrived in Canada in the early 90s. Passionate by Arts, she learned Plastic Arts and Art History at the University of Montreal until her bachelor degree of Arts in 2002. Johanna has participated in several student expositions. In 2003, she decided to go to Brussels, Belgium to share her passion in Europe. Her exposition Swirls in 2003 at the Galerie Provisoire in Brussels was very appreciated. Paintings were calling people to dream, think, imagine and discuss. Art was seen as a game and a great communication mean. People thank her to put sun and colours in the cloudy sky. A year later, she decided to come back to Montreal. Johanna decided to help associations with her artwork. She teamed up with the Society of Alzheimer of Montreal in 2005. Her exhibition Utopia in the Jardin dHiver of the 1000 de la Gauchetière in Montreal was held in order to raise funds for the Society. Her paintings tried to represent the emotional and the psychic aspect of the human being. Her abstract work represented Life in the cells of the painting. In 2006, Johanna moved to Toronto, in order to enlarge her willingness to share her passion with people. According to her, Art has no limit and it should be accessible to everyone. |