Jone Hopper - Jeune taureau à la balle

Born in 1977, Jone Hopper is a French artist. In the late 1980s, he learned his craft on the street through an emerging movement of the time: graffiti. He tags his name on the streets, 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 writers. We know little about him because the artist stays true to the graffiti spirit and wishes to remain anonymous, believing that the work should be highlighted, not the figure. Nonexistent on social networks, absent from openings, a faceless artist, he remains a true mystery except for a few gallerists in the know. He compares his painting to a hip-hop track, drawing on Basquiat, Keith Haring, Picasso, Matisse, Andy Warhol or even Bacon; he plucks from all painting currents, from Modern to Contemporary art, passing through Classical, acting like a sampler... sampling, cutting, assembling and thus creating new images.

- Mixed media: aerosol, pastel and acrylic on canvas
- With certificate of authenticity