Sebi Schager (AT) – Tinder 2.0 – Hers
Sebi Schager (AT)
“Tinder 2.0 – Hers”, 2020
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Bamboo paper (290g/m², 90% bamboo, 10% cotton)
50x40cm, edition of 21
Signed and numbered by the artist.
The Art History Mesh-ups begin where most appropriation art stops: canonical paintings are reproduced on canvas, then physically reworked with stencils, spray paint, and 24k gold leaf — the intervention irreversible, the original and the contemporary sharing the same canvas. Some reworked canvases are rephotographed and produced as archival pigment prints, carrying the collision from studio to edition.
Tinder 2.0 - Hers — Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring (c. 1665), the "Mona Lisa of the North," her sidelong glance one of the most discussed gazes in European painting. A face that has always been about the tension between concealment and disclosure: who is she, why is she looking back, what is she about to say? The Mesh-up adds a transparent COVID face shield and Tinder buttons below the frame. Tinder answers those questions with data fields; the painting never did. Featured in Parnass — Austria's leading contemporary art publication. Together with the His counterpart, the pair turns the most curated genre in art history — the portrait — into the most curated genre in digital life — the dating profile.
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