Johanna Dumet
@johanna_dumet
Born 1991 in Guéret, France. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
Working with oil paint, oil sticks on canvas previously coated with rabbit glue and often sketched with charcoal is Johanna Dumet’s classical approach to painting. Such traditional methods are known in Europe since the 15th century. It is important for her to continue to use such a savoir-faire especially since art is becoming more and more digitalized.
Although her technique is traditional, her use of bold colors, playful patterns and irony inscribes her work into the contemporary sphere. Dumet paints what is around her, but not by simply mimicking life. Rather, she paints spontaneously, fluidly, and without constraint, the result of which is an elevated, seductive use of color and an abstract form that constantly plays with figuration. She is unconcerned about detail such as correct forms and colors and depicts what she sees in a minimalistic manner, yet clearly showing what the subject is.
About the exhibited work
„La grande bouffe“ is one of Johanna‘s latest oil painting and so far the biggest one. The 200x300cm oil on canvas is named after the movie „La grande bouffe“ („ das große Fressen“ directed by Marco Ferreri in 1973. Johanna’s painting depicts a large, joyful and colorful feast mixing food and products from the fashion industry.
On the first glance, this big dinner scene as a positive atmosphere, friends and families are meeting and enjoying food and fashion with a big can of caviar and a small dog eating cream from a giant cake while sitting in the newest Bottega Veneta‘s viper green bag.
Like the movie itself, the characters on Dumet‘s painting are on their way to eat themselves to death, by eating decadent and luxury products, such as oysters mixed with macaroons,a pig head, the lobster flavored with Chanel n5 perfume etc..
The painting follows the idea of Ferreri‘s movie and is a satire towards the consumerism and the decadence of the bourgeoisie. But by pointing the consumerism in her painting, Dumet is also making an Ode to all the luxury labels, indeed by looking at the paintings, it makes us wanting to be in it and enjoying ourselves like the people she painted. The same people are faceless, so that everyone could see himself in the painting. The beautiful porcelain box of paracetamol thrones in the middle of the painting, to make the suffering disappear and the decadent pleasure of eating lasting longer.
Working with oil paint, oil sticks on canvas previously coated with rabbit glue and often sketched with charcoal is Johanna Dumet’s classical approach to painting. Such traditional methods are known in Europe since the 15th century. It is important for her to continue to use such a savoir-faire especially since art is becoming more and more digitalized.
Although her technique is traditional, her use of bold colors, playful patterns and irony inscribes her work into the contemporary sphere. Dumet paints what is around her, but not by simply mimicking life. Rather, she paints spontaneously, fluidly, and without constraint, the result of which is an elevated, seductive use of color and an abstract form that constantly plays with figuration. She is unconcerned about detail such as correct forms and colors and depicts what she sees in a minimalistic manner, yet clearly showing what the subject is.
About the exhibited work
„La grande bouffe“ is one of Johanna‘s latest oil painting and so far the biggest one. The 200x300cm oil on canvas is named after the movie „La grande bouffe“ („ das große Fressen“ directed by Marco Ferreri in 1973. Johanna’s painting depicts a large, joyful and colorful feast mixing food and products from the fashion industry.
On the first glance, this big dinner scene as a positive atmosphere, friends and families are meeting and enjoying food and fashion with a big can of caviar and a small dog eating cream from a giant cake while sitting in the newest Bottega Veneta‘s viper green bag.
Like the movie itself, the characters on Dumet‘s painting are on their way to eat themselves to death, by eating decadent and luxury products, such as oysters mixed with macaroons,a pig head, the lobster flavored with Chanel n5 perfume etc..
The painting follows the idea of Ferreri‘s movie and is a satire towards the consumerism and the decadence of the bourgeoisie. But by pointing the consumerism in her painting, Dumet is also making an Ode to all the luxury labels, indeed by looking at the paintings, it makes us wanting to be in it and enjoying ourselves like the people she painted. The same people are faceless, so that everyone could see himself in the painting. The beautiful porcelain box of paracetamol thrones in the middle of the painting, to make the suffering disappear and the decadent pleasure of eating lasting longer.
