Jerome Goldnose:Handmade Digital Art

Standing outside looking in

Thoughts about ‘Road to Europe’and the adaptations for Road to Europe

The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed
— William Gibson

Europeans have a birth-right to reside inside of what is more and more becoming the gated community called the EU. That right gives them the opportunity to participate in and benefit from Europe’s blissful future. In my work I am looking for the viewpoints of those who do not wish to be part of this utopian world, those who are willing to work on an alternative future or those who can not be part of that privilege for whatever reason – and I have positioned them against the borders or inside the no-mans lands that seem to define them. Will they be honored as martyrs in future-Europe, just like the early monks who gained sainthood because of their apocalyptic visions, the hardships they endured and the good deeds they performed?

Adaptations for Exhibition S.Bahnhof Potsdamerplatz – 2014

Since I could not show my works in their wooden frames due to strict regulations in the metro-station Potsdammerplatz, I decided to create poster-sized reproductions of some of my frames with artworks in them. Here is the result.

Die Romantik, ein Zurückblick (2014)

Made for the exhibition ‘Road to Europe‘. I would like to do more with this post- or neo-romantic theme (whatever you want to call it)

Size: 36cm*74cm @300dpi
Pixelsize: 4252px*8709px
Origin: Composition made with (glitched) photos

Monument for Berlin – AD 2050 (2014)

I wanted to show this during the ‘Roads to Europe‘ exhibition because I thought it would fit in there. Later we decided to use another image. Instead I decided to see this as the first in a new series using the same theme: dreams withering in a changing city, colorful flowers destroyed or floating in the wind, looking for more fertile grounds.

Sancta Susana 2B (2013)

A more political version of ‘Sancta Susana 2A.’ That is why I used an adaptation of this version for the exhibition ‘Road to Europe‘ as part of the series ‘Standing outside, looking in.’ Also available as a postcard in selected shops.

Size: 67,73 x 91,5 cm @300dpi
Pixelsize: 8000 px * 10807 px
Origin: Composition made with photos

Saint F. (2010 – 2013)

Background also used in the inside of the Prunx CD cover.

Size: 67,73 x 91,5 cm @300dpi
Pixelsize: 8000 px * 10807 px
Origin: Composition made with photos.

Saint R. (2012 – 2013)

Train tracks going through a city are at the same time part of the city and not part of the city: a city is build for people, but you can not live there, you are not even allowed there. Same goes for high ways, sub-way tunnels and garbage dumps. I sometimes use these places as symbols for the border lands of our society.

A border separates and also creates order: these people belong over there and we live over here, and -according to some-that is how it is supposed to be. Certain thinkers have pointed out that Europe has the tendency to create places where that what does not fit in society will be banished to, like the terminally ill, the mentally unstable, the disabled, those with grotesque appearances and the criminal minds. These are the places where that what is deemed unclean, unholy, non-rational and unacceptable is expelled to, surrounded by a set of boundaries of their own.

Most of the times people are put there against their will. But there are also people who choose to step outside of the grandeur Europe/the western world has to offer, and they try to create their own place of refuge with their own rules.