Sebi Schager (AT) – INRI 2.0
Sebi Schager (AT)
“INRI 2.0”, 2021
2c screen print on Pergraphica paper, 300g/m²
70x50cm, edition of 21
Signed and numbered by the artist.
Sebi works across spray stencils, robotic pen drawing, gold leaf, and digital collage. His practice moves between appropriation and reinvention — art-historical imagery taken apart, digitally recombined, then translated back into physical form through plotters, stencils, and direct painting. Gold meets street, canon meets intervention.
INRI 2.0 takes four letters that changed the course of Western visual culture — the inscription Pontius Pilate placed on the cross of Christ — and updates the version number. A contemplating beauty in a thinker’s pose echoes Rodin, an angel figure hovers between devotion and ornament, and the whole composition turns on a mandala-like rotation — the spiritual geometry of Eastern meditation meeting Western religion head-on. Scratched into the image: graffiti that traces the medium back to its literal origins — the toilet wall. Humanity’s most honest gallery, no curator required. The Alexamenos Graffito — arguably the oldest known depiction of the crucifixion, scratched into a Roman wall as mockery around 200 AD — set the template. Someone writes something raw, walks away, and the next person reads it without ever knowing who left it. That anonymity is the point: graffiti lets you say what you’d never say standing upright. An artistic comment on communication — and the lack of it. “As beautiful as a person may be,” Sebi writes, “they probably shit more truth in the restroom than they put into posts on the web.”
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