Jone Hopper - Le guerrier à cheval

Born in 1977, Jone Hopper is a French artist.
In the late 1980s, he honed his craft on the streets through an emerging movement at the time: graffiti. He tags his name on the streets, on walls and on trains. Known for his characters and aerosol signatures, he founded the TBS (The Brutal Style) collective 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, believing that it is the work that should be foregrounded and not the person.
Nonexistent on social media, absent from openings, a faceless artist, he remains a true mystery except to a few gallery owners in the confidences. He compares his painting to a piece of Hip Hop, drawing from Basquiat, Keith Haring, Picasso, Matisse, Andy Warhol or even Bacon; he samples from all painting currents, from Modern to Contemporary while 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