Thierry Geoffroy /Colonel: A
Propulsive Retrospective
Format Art |
Awareness Muscle | Emergency Art | Ultracontemporary |
Biennalist | Moving Exhibitions | Critical Run | Delay Museum
| Apathy Lab | Extracteur
Michael Buhrs (Editor) and Christian Ganzenberg (Editor) for Museum
Villa Stuck, Munich
Publication Date: April 2024
Publisher: Snoeck
Publishing Company
ISBN: 9783864423956
608 pp., ca. 1.000 color illustrations
Format: 24.5 x 31cm
Design: Heimann & Schwantes, Berlin
With texts by Sebastian Baden, Michael Buhrs, Jonatan Habib
Engqvist, Carsten Friberg, Morten Friis, Christian Ganzenberg,
Elena Hansen, Séamus Kealy, Tijana Mišković, Susana Puente
Matos, Marie-France Rafael, Johanne Schrøder, Inka Schube.
Further contributions by Mikkel Bogh, Raphael Chikukwa, Julia
Draganović, Mascha Faurschou, Richard Julin, Åsmund Boye
Kverneland, Christopher Lew, Madeleine Park, Holger Reenberg.
Following his solo exhibition, THE AWARENESS MUSCLE TRAINING
CENTER, Museum Villa Stuck proudly presents the first
comprehensive monograph on Thierry Geoffroy / Colonel. Born in
Nancy (France) in 1961, the conceptual artist’s multifaceted
oeuvre spans more than four decades. He is best known for his
Emergency Art Formats.
Thierry Geoffroy/ Colonel: A Propulsive Retrospective presents
22 Art Formats, including the Emergency Room, Critical Run and
Biennalist, which have been realized in institutions across the
globe. Geoffroy defines Format Art as his artistic response to
globalization, providing individuals with a replicable format
for expressing themselves, thereby enabling them to respond to
emergencies and real-world issues in the now.
Through Format Art and other ULTRACONTEMPORARY art concepts,
Geoffroy has sought to address social and political dysfunctions
and show how artists can find solutions. The monograph analyzes
the forms Geoffroy’s art has taken from his beginnings to the
present day, with chapters dedicated to photography, paintings,
works with words, media-art and exhibition platforms.
Art historians and long-term collaborators of the artist offer
in-depth analyses of Geoffroy’s artistic praxis: its mobility,
flexibility and its constant quest to be “in advance” of
accidents and his time. Accompanied by over 1.000 images, their
contributions to the monograph evince how the forms of
Geoffroy’s art have been carefully constructed to catalyze the
message they deliver, whether it concerns identity, migration,
war, propaganda, or climate change. A comprehensive chronology
of Geoffroy’s oeuvre, detailing his many exhibitions and
interventions at countless institutions and events, reveals the
breadth and scope of the artist’s long-term efforts to awaken
individuals to their true potential to act in the face of
crises.
Geoffroy’s prolific output, so driven by a sense of urgency, has
nevertheless persistently sought to inspire conviviality,
generosity, and above all a sense of harmony. His work is
strategic, frontal, poetic, humoristic, self- and
institutionally-critical, but also deeply personal. His
irrepressible energy has fueled an art movement centered around
“Emergency Art,” which questions the state of delay which
characterizes contemporary art and the world around it.
The subtitle of this monograph, “A Propulsive Retrospective,”
refers to the “forward-looking” nature of this publication,
condensing and analyzing the past, and thus advances his work in
its mission of fighting apathy. The publication of the monograph
will be accompanied by a series of international presentations
and seminars intended to foster, explore and deepen the
propositions, which can be found in Geoffroy’s oeuvre.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Michael Buhrs (born 1971) is an art historian and the
director of Villa Stuck Munich. Christian Ganzenberg (born 1980)
is an independent curator, based in Munich and Berlin. Thierry
Geoffroy / Colonel (born 1961, lives Copenhagen) is a French
conceptual artist.
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Here you can follow the coming launch
program https://www.facebook.com/ARTFORMATS/
( so far launch formats are planned for
Venice Biennale opening days (April 2024) /Munich Mai
2024 / Paris Sorbonne September 2024 )
We are open for
propositions especially in cities where Emergency Formats
have been actives with a communauty
1@colonel.dk
International distribution https://www.snoeck.de/distribution
https://www.amazon.com/Thierry-Geoffroy-Colonel-Propulsive-Retrospective/dp/3864423953
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thierry_Geoffroy
http://www.emergencyrooms.org/formats.html
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