Jan Svenungsson
"Psycho-Mapping Europe" - June 16 until July 14 - 2012

 

Opening: Saturday, June 16, 3–7 p.m.

“Psycho-Mapping Europe” is a series of 20 iris-prints (Giclée) on Aquarelle Arches Satiné paper, each 76,5 x 56, 5 cm, 1998.

The work process was begun by making 20 black ink-drawings on the same paper. These drawings were then scanned, and the individual countries coloured in the computer, through Photoshop. The coloured countries all belong to the European Union.

In 2007 Jan Svenungsson begun work on a new version of Psycho-Mapping Europe, due to the considerable enlargement of membership in the European Union, which had taken place in the intervening years: “PSYCHO-MAPPING EUROPE version 2.0”, a series of 20 paintings in oil on canvas, each 190 x 165 cm. In 2010 he produced a digital version of that work: “Psycho-Mapping Europe version 2.0 - edition”. These images are based on b/w photos of the individual paintings before the colours of the countries had been painted in.

Both works “Psycho-Mapping Europe” as well as “Psycho-Mapping Europe version 2.0 - edition” will be exhibited completed by a woodcut printed in May 2012 in Copenhagen at Niels Borch Jenssen.

The show will be accompanied by a publication of an analytical text about Psycho-Mapping Europe by Jan Svenungsson: “Controlled Production of Virtual Geopolitical Reality”