Upside Down

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 brought back into physical form. The Thx for the Brush series extends the painter's space with robotic tools: compositions emerge from digital collages, cutouts, and elements that develop directly on the paper — the work builds up on the sheet as much as it arrives from the screen. Many follow the Wheel of Fortune — Sebi collects thematic image sets from art history, pop culture, and the internet, runs them through the randomizer, and lets unexpected constellations emerge. The plotter translates, but the encounter between pen and paper introduces variables neither artist nor machine fully controls — ink pools, skips, bleeds. Tinguely built drawing machines to question authorship in 1959; Sebi's plotter picks up that thread sixty years later. "The miracle has already happened once something is physically manifested."

Upside Down — a classical male bust rendered in red halftone raster, the kind of head you'd find in a museum vitrine, solid and authoritative. Then manga tears through it — fragments in blue and black layered on top, transparent line drawings scattered across the composition like ripped-out pages thrown onto marble. Antiquity sits underneath, subculture claims the surface. Baselitz flipped his paintings to break figurative recognition; Sebi buries the classical under anime until you're not sure which layer you're reading. The title might describe the bust, the manga, or the viewer's expectations — all of them inverted.

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