Jone Hopper - La madone au chapeau

Born in 1977, Jone Hopper is a French artist. Towards the late 1980s, he learns his trade on the street through an emerging movement at the time, graffiti. He tags his name on the street, on walls and on trains. Known for his characters and aerosol signatures, he creates the collective TBS (The Brutal Style) with Skepa and a few other committed graffiti artists. We know little about him because the artist stays true to the graffiti spirit and wishes to remain anonymous, considering that it is the work that should be showcased and not the character. Nonexistent on social media, absent from openings, a faceless artist, he remains a genuine mystery except for a few gallery owners in the know. He compares his painting to a piece of Hip Hop, borrowing from Basquiat, Keith Haring, Picasso, Matisse, Andy Warhol or even Bacon, drawing from all painting movements, from Modern to Contemporary art while passing through Classical; he acts like a sampler... samples, cuts, assembles and thus creates new images.
- Mixed media: aerosol, pastel and acrylic on canvas
- With certificate of authenticity