artworks that were once ULTRACONTEMPORARY

IMMEDIATE EXPRESSIONS ON CARTON Since 1988 and intensifying in the last four years, artist Thierry Geoffroy/ COLONEL has been regularly producing carton art works consisting of drawings, texts and occasionally newspaper or printed paper clippings. Depending on the moment, circumstances and the artist’s state of mind, the expressions ranged from direct and sharp to personal and doubtful. These diary-like registrations, expressing the raw and unpolished artistic sentiments, were put on display for the audience the same day they were produced, as living, pulsing artworks about the now.

Today the carton art works form an impressive collection that can be analyzed chronologically, thematically or esthetically showing what once was ultracontemporary. The precise registration of the date on each artwork makes it possible to find back to the specific historic context and situation the artist was expressing about.

Gallery Ultracontemporaine manages the distribution and selling of the artworks in the collection. For this book we have made a selection of 24 available artworks on themes such as: criticism as artistic praxis, emergencies in the world today, apathy in the society, communication, the notion of time and the ability to catch the moment, contemporary versus ultracontemporary.

Buying art works that were ultracontemporary in the past is about supporting the ultracontemporary art of today.

Gallery UltracontemporaineTijana Mišković

OBSERVING CRIME

3/9 2013 5 x 9 cmblue pen with black marker text and drawing on cartonsigned

IS SELLING ECOLOGICAL CARS NOT A LIE

10/10 20126 x 6 cmblack marker text and drawing on cartonsigned

WE SELL WEAPONS TO THE CRIMINALS AND PRETEND TO BE HORRIFIED WHEN THEY USE THEM

01/05 2013 17 x 13,3 cmblack marker text and drawing on cartonsigned

WE REJECT REFUGEES VICTIMS OF WARS WE HAVE CREATED

30/08 2015 17,5 x 18,5 cmblack and red marker text and drawing on cartonsigned

WE NEED NURSES TO HELP THE WOUNDED BUT WE ALSO NEED PROTESTERS TO STOP THE WARS AND QUESTION OUR COMPLICITY

25/5 2014 14 x 11 cmblack marker text and drawing on cartonsigned

MEANWHILE WE WATCH SONG CONTESTS IT IS MELTING

13/5 201410 x 12,6 cmblack marker text and drawing on cartonsigned

WHY DO WE FIND BEAUTY IN THE WORLD WE DESTROY

3/9 201520 x 15 cmblack marker text on paper color print clipping and cartonsigned

COULD IT BE CLIMATE CHANGE

29/11 2012 4,7 x 7,2 cm black marker text and drawing on cartonsigned

IS APATHY VIRAL

3/3 2013 9,7 x 7,4 cmblack marker text and drawing on cartonsigned

I PASS ON SOME LINKS I DON’T EVEN WANT TO OPEN MYSELF

10/10 201211 x 9 cm black marker text and drawing on cartonsigned

TO SEE IF I STILL EXIST I GOOGLE MY NAME

30/11 20128,2 x 6,6 cm black marker text and drawing on cartonsigned

CLICKING IS NOT EXISTING

11/01 2012 5,5 x 4,5 cm black marker text and drawing on cartonsigned

SO MUCH OPINIONS AND SO LITTLE INVESTIGATIONS

19/9 201510 x8 cmblack marker text and drawing on cartonsigned

MY HYPOCRISY IS WHAT IS KILLING ME

10/10 2012 10 x 8,5 cmblack marker text and drawing on cartonsigned

HOW SOME PRECISE PEOPLE LIKE US HAVE BECOME SO ABSTRACT ABOUT JUSTICE

4/3 20149,5 x10 cmblack marker text and drawing on cartonsigned

I AM THE FASTEST ARTIST IN THE WORLD

17/10 2012 7.20 pm5,4 x 4,2 cmblack marker text and drawing on cartonsigned

EMERGENCY ARTISTS DON’T FALL ASLEEP WHEN THE WAR IS OVER

4/10 201412 x 12 cmblack marker text and drawing on cartonsigned

IF ARTISTS HAVE TO BE FROM THEIR TIME THEN THE TIME IS NOW

1/8 20158 x 6 cmblack marker text and drawing on cartonsigned

CAN ART BE IN ADVANCE OF THE BROKEN ARM

19/2 2013 6,5 x 11 cmblack marker text and drawing with paper color print clipping on cartonsigned

HOW CONTEMPORARY IS YOUR CONTEMPORARY

1/7 201514 x 13 cm black marker text and drawing with paper color print clipping on cartonsigned

NOW BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE

6/12 20147 x 7 cm black marker text and drawing on cartonsigned

ULTRACONTEMPORARY

9/10 201413 x 11 cm black marker text on cartonsigned

CAPTURING THE MOMENT

2/7 201510 x 5,5 cmblue pen text and drawing on paper color print clipping and cartonsigned

TO BE READY AT THE RIGHT MOMENT FAST MEANS TO BE TRAINED A LOT/ PAS DE HASARD

20/1 201413 x 13 cmblack marker text and drawing on paper color print clipping and cartonsigned

Thierry Geoffroy / COLONELBorn 1961www.colonel.dk

Thierry Geoffroy, also known as COLONEL, is a French artist, living in Copenhagen, Denmark.

He is a format artist developing art formats, most known being EMERGENCY ROOM, BIENNALIST and CRITICAL RUN.

Thierry Geoffroy / COLONEL has published 6 books and his artwork s are are included in international museum collections.

He is Chevalier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

SELECTED GROUP AND ONE-MAN SHOWS FROM 2007 - 2015P.S.1/ MOMA New York, USA; ZKM Museum Karlsruhe, DE; Sprengel Museum, Hannover, DE; Moderna Museet, the Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm, SE; HEART- HerningMuseum of Con-temporary Art Denmark, Herning, DK; Plazzo Delle Arti Napoli, IT; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, DK; Galerie Asbaek Copenhagen, DK; The Maldives Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Venice, IT; Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK, Manifesta Biennal, Murcia, ES; National Museum Rejkavik, FI; Galerie Olaf Stüber, Berlin, DE, IKM Museum, Oslo, NO; Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, NL; Devron Arts, Huntly, Aberdeenshire, SCO; The Model, Sligo, IR; Fotografisk Cen-ter, Copenhagen, DK; Cairo Biennale, Cairo, EG; Blackwood Gal-lery Toronto, CAN; Galerie Ileana Tounta, Athens, GR; Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Osnabrück, DE.