Jone Hopper - La belle est triste

Born in 1977, Jone Hopper is a French artist. In the late 80s, he cuts his teeth 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 faithful to the spirit of graffiti and wishes to remain anonymous, considering that it is the work that should be highlighted and not the person. Unknown on social media, absent from openings, a faceless artist, he remains a true mystery except to a few gallery people in the know. He compares his painting to a Hip Hop track, drawing from Basquiat, Keith Haring, Picasso, Matisse, Andy Warhol, or even Bacon, pulling from all artistic currents, from Modern to Contemporary, passing through Classical; he acts like a sampler... sampling, cutting, assembling and thus creating new images.
- Mixed media: aerosol, pastel and acrylic on canvas
- With certificate of authenticity