Among the two-dimensional works we find paintings, collages and digital collages.
The production of paintings is related to a first phase of the artist's journey. In his paintings, which often are not paintings, but wooden floors or other surfaces of different kinds, characters and landscapes are represented together recognizable and abstract: the perspectives are mixed, the points of view are multiplied, the escape routes are closed, instead to open up. As time passes, the features become slimmer and everything tends even more clearly to abstractionism. Johannes is inspired by Giorgio Morandi, for him the "supreme manifestation of abstractionism, able to use motifs as a pretext for painting, and to go beyond the trivial sense of reality". For Johannes this is precisely the profound meaning of painting: the ability to lead to the unexpected, to observe a simple landscape and to find oneself in an unsuspected reality behind appearances. The techniques it uses are stucco, stucco on wood, watercolors, acrylics, glass and other enamels, tempera, china and pencil.
The collages develop beyond the canvas and the painting, on a three-dimensional plane thanks to the addition of other materials, such as pieces of iron, wood and glass. Here too, abstractionism and the surreal are the horizon in which the eye sails: the elements found and juxtaposed create pleasing relations between the eyes and are able to keep us poised between real and abstract.
Digital collages, created with computer graphics, are a more recent type of production of Johannes's activity. The artist does not collect only objects and materials found by chance, which then end up in his works, but also images, photographs taken during walks, newspaper clippings, parts of paintings or film frames. By manipulating images and inserting them in unusual contexts, creating unexpected associations, he composes collages that recall the poetics of the surrealists.