"PSYCHO-MAPPING EUROPE version 2.0"
a series of 20 paintings in oil on canvas, each 190x165 cm, 2007-2009.
Due to the enlargement of the European Union it became necessary to produce a new version of Psycho-Mapping Europe,
which was made in 1998. The first version of the work has a palette of 15 colours (+ black), in version 2.0 the colour range
has had to be extended to 27.
Series starts here!
There also exists two individual paintings connected to Psycho-Mapping Europe version 2.0:
"Psycho-Mapping Europe version 2.0. – painting 21"
"Psycho-Mapping Europe version 2.0. – painting 22"
All three works were first shown in Stockholm in 2009, at a one-man show called "Psycho-Mapping Europe 2009", at Galleri Flach+Thulin.
In 2010 JS produced a digital version of this project, called "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. For the edition these colours were added in the computer, which makes for a different over all impact. The digital version was first exhibited in 2010, at Galleri Dag Andersson in Norrköping.
JS' analytical text about Psycho-Mapping Europe:
"Controlled Production of Virtual Geopolitical Reality through Failure"