Jone Hopper - La Byzantine

- Numbered edition of 10 copies and hand-signed on the back of the artwork
- Giclée on canvas mounted on a stretcher in the artist's studio
- Hand-signed certificate of authenticity

Born in 1977, Jone Hopper is a French artist.
In the late 1980s, he honed his street skills through the emerging graffiti movement of that era. He tags his name on streets, walls, and trains. Renowned for his characters and aerosol signatures, he founded the collective TBS (The Brutal Style) with Skepa and a few other committed graffiti writers. We know little about him, as the artist stays true to the spirit of graffiti and wishes to remain anonymous, believing that it is the work that should be highlighted and not the personality.
Nonexistent on social media, absent from openings, a faceless artist, he remains a true mystery except for a few galleries 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; he draws from all painting movements, from Modern to Contemporary and even Classical, acting like a sampler... sampling, cutting, assembling and thus creating new images.