2017 – Curating an every-day-changing ultracontemporary exhibition #ULTRACONTEMPORARY. Cape Town, South Africa.
 newspaper market and carton    Black marker text on canvas 23/2 2017, Cape Town  Black marker text on canvas 23/2 2017, Cape Town
 Black marker text on newspaper cutout 27/2 2017, Cape Town  Newspaper cutout on carton 24/2 2017, Cape Town  Newspaper cutout on carton 23/2 2017, Cape Town  24/2 2017, Cape Town
 24/2 2017, Cape Town 
More about Thierry Geoffroy/ COLONEL: Thierry Geoffroy/ COLONEL’s artistic praxis is driven by the vision of creating awareness about dysfunctions in the world through art and in time. He has since 1988 been working with art formats that can support the production and presentation of artworks produced in the now. One of the earliest formats Ultrafast gave the setting for a line of exhibitions that were changing in different ways. Either they were moving in space, for example exhibitions on clothes of people who are moving; or they where changing the same place but with new artworks daily replacing the old ones. This ultrafast pulsing way of working has not only to do with alertness and speed, but also with time. This is why the artist later introduced another term Ultracontemporary, which links more to the notion of time and carries on a critical positioning to the established understanding of contemporary art. Contemporaneity is an interesting phenomenon because it forces us to make a connection between us and the time. Con –tempo (with time) is alluding some kind of togetherness or closeness to the present moment. To express with time (Con –tempo) would thus mean to express while you are still with in it. Today’s understanding of contemporary has become so open that it basically covers all kinds of art made in and after 20th century, or art made and produced by artists living today independently of its pertinence for the present moment. By using the word Ultra and creating a new term Ultracontemporary, the artist brings the focus to the time aspect and insists on contemporary being in the now. Apart from the speed and time Thierry Geoffroy/ COLONEL also focuses on the content, which has to be in the now too, relating to what is happening in the world at the moment. There are many burning topics that need to be addressed on the spot before it is too late. The artist calls this kind of art Emergency Art. It is art produced by artists who are alert, who recognize dysfunctions and grab the most urgent ones that cannot wait to be expressed about. This way of working includes ranking of emergencies. Like in a real hospital emergency where the doctor would have to priorities between the different patients based on the level of emergency. Thierry Geoffroy / COLONEL, Born 1961
www.colonel.dkThierry 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 artworks 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 to 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- Herning Museum of Contemporary 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 Center, Copenhagen, DK; Cairo Biennale, Cairo, EG; Blackwood Gallery Toronto, CAN; Galerie Ileana Tounta, Athens, GR; Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Osnabrück, DE
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