Jone Hopper - Bel homme au costume

Born in 1977, Jone Hopper is a French artist. In the late 1980s, he cut his teeth on the streets 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 created the collective TBS (The Brutal Style) with Skepa and a few other committed graffiti writers. We know little about him as the artist stays faithful to the graffiti spirit and wishes to remain anonymous, believing that it is the work that should be showcased and not the person. Nonexistent on social media, absent from openings, a faceless artist, he remains a true mystery except for a few gallery owners in the know. He compares his painting to a piece of Hip Hop, drawing from Basquiat, Keith Haring, Picasso, Matisse, Andy Warhol or even Bacon, borrowing from all painting currents, from Modern to Contemporary art, through the Classic; he acts like a sampler… samples, cuts, assembles and thus creates new images.

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