Jone Hopper - Le grand sorcier

Born in 1977, Jone Hopper is a French artist.
In the late 1980s, he learns the ropes 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 TBS collective (The Brutal Style) with Skepa and a few other committed graffiti writers. We know little about him because 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 person. Nonexistent on social media, absent from openings, a faceless artist, he remains a true mystery except for a few gallery owners who know him.
He compares his painting to a piece of Hip Hop, drawing on Basquiat, Keith Haring, Picasso, Matisse, Andy Warhol or even Bacon, dipping into all painting movements—from Modern to Contemporary, including Classical—he acts like a sampler... he samples, cuts, assembles and thus creates new images.

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