b. 1998
Ugo Sébastião's (b.1998) paintings blend post-punk aesthetics with religious iconography, drawing from art historical images filtered through the lens of his computer screen. Using Google Images, he extracts details from "forgotten" classical paintings and reproduces them through various techniques that blend traditional and contemporary painterly approaches. By presenting his newly found historical subjects underneath monochrome and ultra-glossy varnishes, which are in stark contrast with the solemnity and legibility that those subjects would have needed in their original context, he questions the significance and permanence these images have on the present.