Gallery Ultracontemporaine presents artworks by Thierry Geoffroy/COLONEL that comment daily on current issues like war, refugees, fairness, and responsibility. The artworks, created using various media like markers, paint, and newspaper clippings, address topics like welcoming refugees, safe zones, climate change, and Syria. Buying art from Gallery Ultracontemporaine allows one to acquire artwork that is immediately relevant to hot issues of the day.

1. ULTRACONTEMPORARY
artworks

2. GRABBING THE NOW
Gallery Ultracontemporaine presents artworks on
current issues.
For this book we have made a selection of artworks
by Thierry Geoffroy/ COLONEL, who has been
producing artworks daily as an immediate way of
expressing and freezing his thoughts on war, refugee
situation, fairness and responsibility.
Buying in Gallery Ultracontemporaine is about
grabbing the artwork while it is hot and relevant.
Gallery Ultracontemporaine
Tijana Mišković

3. 4/9 2015 Copenhagen
welcomes refugees
4/9 2015, white paint on metal sign, 20 x 20 cm

4. 3/9 2015, red marker and newspaper clipping on a coffee filter
Safe zone

5. We reject refugees victims
of wars we have created
30/8 2015, red and black marker text and drawing, carton, signed,
17,5 x 18,5 cm

6. The migrations are the
result of our bombs
10/9 2015, black marker text and drawing on carton, signed

7. Who is bombing most
21/9 2015, black marker drawing on paper color print clipping and
carton, signed

8. Non-assistance à
personne en danger
21/9/2015, black marker text on newspaper clipping and carton,
signed

9. 20/9 2015
20/9 2015, black marker drawing on carton, signed

10. What is fairness
2015, mix-media: spray paint on tent, 2,2 kilos, 2 x 1,40 m

11. Do you feel concerned
if you are not a victim
2015, red marker text on cotton textile and two safety pins

12. Can sensibility be trained
5/8 2015, black marker text and drawing on carton, signed

13. Filter 8/9 2015
8/9 2015, red marker and paper color print clipping on a coffee
filter, signed, 20 x 15 cm

14. Forbidden entrance for
everyone not looking
just like me
2015, red marker on metal sign, 50 x 20 cm

15. We are rich because we
push them to kill each other
12/9 2015, black marker text on paper color print clipping and
carton, signed

16. Refugees are orphans of
the wars we created
7/9 2015, black marker text and drawing on carton, signed

17. The climate change
15/9 2015, red marker text on newspaper clipping and carton,
signed

18. Syria
20/9 2015, black marker text on newspaper clipping and carton,
signed

19. Knowing what I know
makes me a monster
12/9 2015, black marker text on paper color print clipping and
carton, signed

20. Collateral dommage
3/10 2015, black and red marker text and drawing on carton,
signed

21. So much opinion and
so little investigation
19/9 2015, black marker text and drawing on carton, signed

22. We pass each other links
with terrifying infos
without taking any
responsibility
21/9 2015, black marker text and drawing on carton, signed

23. I am linking to give the
illusion of caring
24/9 2015, black marker text and drawing on carton, signed

24. NOW
before it is too late
2015, collbestone wrapped in cotton fabric with red marker text,
15 x 15 cm

25. Thierry Geoffroy / COLONEL
Born 1961
www.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 - 2015
P.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.