Hunter Biden is known for many aspects. The son of Joe Biden, the newly elected President of the United States, is a famous lawyer, lobbyist, businessman and frequent target of Donald Trump’s wrath, who surpassed his positions by asking for an investigation into him. he was sentenced to succeed. in front of accusation. But the most popular, at least today, is for his efforts to emulate art. Hunter Biden, the man who has lived through everything – public attacks, rehabilitation, the death of his mother, his brother – takes refuge in painting.
At the age of 50, Hunter Biden enters into an agreement with the Georges Bergès gallery in New York, with whom he will hold a solo exhibition of his work in 2021. Biden is a huge fan of art. “It keeps me sane,” he explained in an interview with The New York Times in February of this year, where he showed part of his work, consisting of abstract flower paintings painted on a highly resistant Japanese paper, at his home in the Hollywood Hills. “I haven’t been able to call myself an artist for years, but now I feel comfortable with it.”
Not all specialized media have welcomed the work of the future president’s son with the same enthusiasm. The critic of New York MagazineJerry Salt called it “generic formalistic illustration after the zombie”. For a former editor of the specialized medium ArtisticHunter Buden’s paintings are ‘vaguely scientific, vaguely psychedelic’ and ‘the process seems more important than the finished work’. “It is important to me that injured men of a certain age and of a privileged background are given the opportunity to be creative. The bad thing is they expect everyone else to pay attention to them, ”he stated on the web artnet.com.
By painting he has overcome addictions, which have not been few. One of the first reports for which his name came to the fore, in 2014, when his father was vice president of the Barack Obama administration, was that he had been expelled from the Navy a month after he joined. That was in the spring of 2013, when he tested positive for drugs, in this case cocaine.
Cocaine, alcohol, or crack have taken him through one rehab center after another. His family history didn’t make it easy for him either. Hunter was very close to his older brother, Beau. On Christmas 1972, the two little ones were traveling in the family car with their mother, Neillia, and their one-year-old sister, Naomi, when they had a serious accident in which both died. They say that when he woke up in the hospital, Hunter first looked at his brother Beau and said repeatedly, “I love you, I love you.”
The brothers’ union was perpetuated over time. Joe Biden remarried and had another daughter, Ashley, but they became each other’s pillars. Hunter, a lobbyist with successful businesses, paid off his brother’s expensive student loan when he started making money. Beau, for his part, accompanied him to his first Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.
Hence, Beau’s death in May 2015 from a brain tumor hit him like a blow. His wife and mother of his three children to date, Kathleen Buhle, told him not to drink a drop of alcohol because he would have to deal with it outside the home. He picked up a bottle of vodka and left.
To top off the most shocking things, he started a relationship with his brother’s widow, Hallie Biden, who he was with for a little over a year. They reportedly became intimate in 2016, during visits to the family home in the Hamptons. But it was after a week at a detox center in Arizona that their romance began. Hunter Biden had joined after traveling through Los Angeles, buying and doing crack in a homeless suburb of the city, and ended up in a Hollywood nightclub, where a man took pity on him and took him to a rental office. cars. From there, he effectively rented a vehicle (when he turned it in, the occupants called the police because there was a crack pipe and a bag of white powder next to his driver’s license and his attorney identification), he drove to Arizona, drove through downtown rehab and ended up in a spa where she was eventually joined by Hallie and they decided to go out together. Joe Biden found out from the press, but before long, just a year. In May 2019, he met 32-year-old South African Melissa Cohen, and they got married a week later.
Beyond the purely personal, Hunter Biden is now in the spotlight for an investigation taking the Delaware prosecutor’s office into his finances. Trump even accused him of corruption for working for a Ukrainian energy company called Burisma and for serving on its board of directors, on a salary of about $ 50,000 a month. Such was the wish of the current still president to sink him, and his father with him, that in July 2019 he asked the president of Ukraine, Volodímir Zelenski, to start an investigation into Hunter, as it was months later became known. He continues to say that he takes the matter “very seriously”, assuring his father years ago that he knew what he was doing and that his work in Ukraine was “a bad decision”, but not an ethical issue.
“Everyone has a trauma. There are addictions in every family. I got lost. I was in a tunnel, an endless tunnel, where you never leave. You just learn how to deal with it, ”said Hunter Biden in an interview with the New Yorker in September 2019. It seems he has now found the light he needed to get out.