Portrait of a man in a wide-brimmed dark blue hat, his face in red and pink shadow, wearing a patterned green and white top, against a blue background.
Chapeau print unframed on a white wall: a man in a wide-brimmed dark blue hat, on a blue background.
Chapeau print in a natural oak frame: a man in a wide-brimmed dark blue hat, on a blue background.
Chapeau print in a black oak frame: a man in a wide-brimmed dark blue hat, on a blue background.
Chapeau print in a white oak frame: a man in a wide-brimmed dark blue hat, on a blue background.
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Dreaming in Neon — Chapeau | Black Fine Art Print

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Aesop

Brooklyn's streets shaped Aesop long before the galleries came calling. His visual language draws equally from hip-hop's golden era and classical design—Renaissance composition meets the album art that defined a generation.

Coming up through New York's graffiti scene gave him a fluency that formal training alone can't teach. His stylized digital work carries that influence forward: rich, saturated palettes that channel NYC grit alongside Jamaican warmth, figures rendered with the sharp elegance of African dandyism. He treats historical references not as something precious to preserve, but as raw material to remix—bringing street-level directness to spaces that typically expect reverence.

In French, chapeau means hat, and it is also what you say when someone has done something so well that the only decent response is to take yours off.

Both meanings sit on this man's head. The brim is wide and dark blue, wide enough to throw his eyes into shadow and his face into red and rose, while below it a collar patterned in green and white keeps its own counsel. The Sapeurs of Brazzaville have long understood that what you wear on your head tells the room who has arrived.

He has arrived. Chapeau.

Cold Press Fine Art Print

Printed to order on 300gsm cold press fine art paper: heavy, acid-free and textured like a watercolour sheet, so the colour settles into the grain instead of sitting on top of it. The inks are archival pigment, which is to say they were made to be looked at for a long time.

  • Artist: Aesop
  • Series: Dreaming in Neon
  • Medium: archival pigment print on 300gsm cold press fine art paper, acid-free, textured matte
  • Size: 8×10", 12×16" or 18×24"
  • Frame: unframed, or solid oak in natural, black or white
  • Made to order and shipped flat in a rigid protective mailer. Free shipping in the US.
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Dreaming in Neon — Chapeau | Black Fine Art Print
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