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Thierry Geoffroy/ Colonel is exhibiting in the Kuma Museum :
Kunsthalle Mannheim from october 2018 part of the exhibition "Konstruktion der Welt .Kunst und Ökonomie "
The tent "THE EMERGENCY WILL REPLACE THE CONTEMPORARY "
was first an unsollicited art work in 2012 during documenta 13 in Kassel
it started the occupy camp and then was confiscated by the documenta
more here www.emergencyrooms.org/documenta_kassel.html
It is a work also about the artist and his , her capacity to be in time and not too late
depicting death and toolate ( like The Execution of Emperor Maximilian by Édouard Manet )
this art work is a participation to : Constructing the World: Art and Economy 1919-1939 and 2008-2018 ( curator Sebastian Baden)
other ART FORMATS By Thierry Geoffroy / Colonel
www.emergencyrooms.org/formats.html
www.colonel.dk contact : emergencyrooms@gmail.com
In this scene, an Assyrian soldier is about to execute an Elamite general, Ituni, on the battlefield. Having witnessed the devastation around him (mutilated corpses etc), Itni cuts his bow in an act of submission and awaits his fate.
From Ninveh, Iraq. The British Museum.
Lord Murugan threw his Vel at the Mango tree and splitting it. The tree split into two with one half transforming into a cock fowl and the other turning into a peacock. Lord Murugan ordered the cock fowl to embed itself on the flag. The peacock was ordered to be his divine vehicle of Lord Murugan
Munkholmen - prison island, fort and former monastery. During the Viking era this was Trondheim's execution site. The severed heads of both Haakon Earl and his thrall Kark were placed on stakes on Munkholmen.
From a wee outing this Sunday. I had a great time, and saw the most awesome places I have ever seen since arriving in Scotland =)))
Memorial where the scaffold was built for private executions in front of the Chapel Royal of St. Peter ad Vincula, inside the walls of The Tower.
The executions of the Easter Rising leaders on this spot in Kilmainham Gaol's courtyard turned them into martyrs, especially when the British did not allow them proper Christian burials. This eventually led to Irish independence and the leaders may have known they would die this way, but were willing to do so because they could also see the end result it would have.