Sebi Schager (AT) – Europa vs Europa
Sebi Schager (AT)
“Europa vs Europa”, 2019
3c screen print on Munken Pure, 300g/m²
35x100cm, edition of 50
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.
Europa vs Europa puts the myth back into the political name — the Greek princess abducted by Zeus in bovine disguise, doubled and mirrored across a panoramic frieze. But the heads are switched: the rider wears the bull’s head, the bull carries the girl’s face. Abductor and abducted merge into each other, power and submission no longer assignable. The riders’ poses lean into the erotic — Europa was always a seduction story before it was a political one, and the bodies don’t let you forget it. One pair rides through black and gold, the other through neon pink; golden stars float between them like EU insignia drifting loose from the flag. The continent named after a kidnapping victim, forever negotiating between origin myth and political project. Made in 2019 — post-Brexit vote, mid-migration debate — the three-color screen print captures a union at odds with itself: same story, opposite directions, and nobody sure who’s riding whom.
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