“The Neo Baroque Furor Show” will open its doors during Berlin gallery weekend on Friday April 30th. Six single edition Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) will be auctioned under a pseudonym Mae B. on the Open Sea Platform. 5 unique versions will be available of Shining Boys, Naked Joker, Then We Take Berlin, Heroes, Masked Girls, and VR Space that exemplify Eicher’s singular depiction of pop-stars and media icons enmeshed and layered with symbols from art history. These works integrate fully with the most up-to-date digital technology, which presents a new avenue for digital art.

Link to participate to the auction: https://opensea.io/collection/margret-eicher

Auction Ends on May 10, 2021, 21:00 am ET. 

Mae B.’s collages function as carriers of digitally produced image collages whose elements are taken both from the repertoire of art history and the seemingly inexhaustible reservoir of contemporary mass media. 

The subjects include today’s media-hyped “heroes”—athletes, models, stars of film, music, computer games and fantasy world— sampled and overlaid with clichés and elements from the past.  

The references and sources tend to be clearly marked, for instance by relevant titles or through the publication of source images. In many cases, Mae B. paraphrases well-known paintings from the history of art. Ultimately, her aim in doing so is not to create some intricate hermeneutic game for insiders, but rather to openly extend an invitation to follow the laid-out trail.

The complex frame of reference of Mae B.’s digital collages is characterized by ironic twists and based on a multi-layered discourse on the status and nature of images in collective consciousness. On the one hand, they draw on the endless availability of digital images. On the other, they buck, through their materiality, today’s steadily swelling stream of data.