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1. artworks that were once
ULTRACONTEMPORARY

3. 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 Ultracontemporaine
Tijana Mišković

4. OBSERVING CRIME
3/9 2013
5 x 9 cm
blue pen with black marker text and drawing on carton
signed

6. IS SELLING ECOLOGICAL CARS NOT A LIE
10/10 2012
6 x 6 cm
black marker text and drawing on carton
signed

8. WE SELL WEAPONS TO THE CRIMINALS AND PRETEND TO BE
HORRIFIED WHEN THEY USE THEM
01/05 2013
17 x 13,3 cm
black marker text and drawing on carton
signed

10. WE REJECT REFUGEES VICTIMS OF WARS WE HAVE CREATED
30/08 2015
17,5 x 18,5 cm
black and red marker text and drawing on carton
signed

12. 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 cm
black marker text and drawing on carton
signed

14. MEANWHILE WE WATCH SONG CONTESTS IT IS MELTING
13/5 2014
10 x 12,6 cm
black marker text and drawing on carton
signed

16. WHY DO WE FIND BEAUTY IN THE WORLD WE DESTROY
3/9 2015
20 x 15 cm
black marker text on paper color print clipping and carton
signed

18. COULD IT BE CLIMATE CHANGE
29/11 2012
4,7 x 7,2 cm
black marker text and drawing on carton
signed

20. IS APATHY VIRAL
3/3 2013
9,7 x 7,4 cm
black marker text and drawing on carton
signed

22. I PASS ON SOME LINKS I DON’T EVEN WANT TO OPEN MYSELF
10/10 2012
11 x 9 cm
black marker text and drawing on carton
signed

24. TO SEE IF I STILL EXIST I GOOGLE MY NAME
30/11 2012
8,2 x 6,6 cm
black marker text and drawing on carton
signed

26. CLICKING IS NOT EXISTING
11/01 2012
5,5 x 4,5 cm
black marker text and drawing on carton
signed

28. SO MUCH OPINIONS AND SO LITTLE INVESTIGATIONS
19/9 2015
10 x8 cm
black marker text and drawing on carton
signed

30. MY HYPOCRISY IS WHAT IS KILLING ME
10/10 2012
10 x 8,5 cm
black marker text and drawing on carton
signed

32. HOW SOME PRECISE PEOPLE LIKE US HAVE BECOME SO
ABSTRACT ABOUT JUSTICE
4/3 2014
9,5 x10 cm
black marker text and drawing on carton
signed

34. I AM THE FASTEST ARTIST IN THE WORLD
17/10 2012 7.20 pm
5,4 x 4,2 cm
black marker text and drawing on carton
signed

36. EMERGENCY ARTISTS DON’T FALL ASLEEP WHEN THE WAR IS OVER
4/10 2014
12 x 12 cm
black marker text and drawing on carton
signed

38. IF ARTISTS HAVE TO BE FROM THEIR TIME THEN THE TIME IS NOW
1/8 2015
8 x 6 cm
black marker text and drawing on carton
signed

40. CAN ART BE IN ADVANCE OF THE BROKEN ARM
19/2 2013
6,5 x 11 cm
black marker text and drawing with paper color print clipping on carton
signed

42. HOW CONTEMPORARY IS YOUR CONTEMPORARY
1/7 2015
14 x 13 cm
black marker text and drawing with paper color print clipping on carton
signed

44. NOW BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE
6/12 2014
7 x 7 cm
black marker text and drawing on carton
signed

46. ULTRACONTEMPORARY
9/10 2014
13 x 11 cm
black marker text on carton
signed

48. CAPTURING THE MOMENT
2/7 2015
10 x 5,5 cm
blue pen text and drawing on paper color print clipping and carton
signed

50. TO BE READY AT THE RIGHT MOMENT FAST MEANS TO BE
TRAINED A LOT/ PAS DE HASARD
20/1 2014
13 x 13 cm
black marker text and drawing on paper color print clipping and carton
signed

52. 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.