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Opus IX: Abode of Chaos / Demeure du Chaos 1999-2013

Is it to be considered a book? Or is it a magic object, each page of which being an original narrative of the Abode of Chaos rendered in a ground-breaking dreamlike vision. thierry Ehrmann: we put all our passion and folly into preparing this French-English Collector, the book of the decade: 504 pages / 4.5 kg / Square format – Edition bound – 11.8 in. x 11.8 in. and 1.97 inch-thick – includes the Opus IX from 1999 to 2013. A Note to Our Readers All the photographs, video stills, illustrations, handwritings, sketches, 3D modelling images, plans, maps and drawings are all part of the artworks and/or performances produced "in situ" at the Abode of Chaos. The images of artworks included in this book do not cover the Above of Chaos in its entirety but only a small part of it.

Is it to be considered a book? Or is it a magic object, each page of which being an original narrative of the Abode of Chaos rendered in a ground-breaking dreamlike vision. thierry Ehrmann: we put all our passion and folly into preparing this French-English Collector, the book of the decade: 504 pages / 4.5 kg / Square format – Edition bound – 11.8 in. x 11.8 in. and 1.97 inch-thick – includes the Opus IX from 1999 to 2013.
A Note to Our Readers
All the photographs, video stills, illustrations, handwritings, sketches, 3D modelling images, plans, maps and drawings are all part of the artworks and/or performances produced "in situ" at the Abode of Chaos.
The images of artworks included in this book do not cover the Above of Chaos in its entirety but only a small part of it.

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<strong>du</strong> PalaIs Idéal <strong>du</strong><br />

FaCteur Cheval à<br />

la demeure <strong>du</strong> <strong>Chaos</strong><br />

de thIerry ehrmann<br />

From Postman Cheval’s<br />

Ideal PalaCe<br />

to thIerry ehrmann’s<br />

abode oF <strong>Chaos</strong><br />

12 13<br />

Le Facteur Cheval peint à La<br />

<strong>Demeure</strong> <strong>du</strong> <strong>Chaos</strong><br />

Postman Cheval in painting<br />

at the <strong>Abode</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Chaos</strong><br />

Le Palais Idéal <strong>du</strong> Facteur Cheval à<br />

Hauterives, Drôme<br />

The Postman Cheval's Ideal<br />

Palace in Hauterives, Drôme<br />

Durant ces 13 dernières années, je<br />

n’ai eu de cesse, <strong>du</strong>rant mes nuits<br />

vertigineuses, seul contre tous,<br />

de penser qu’à 100 km, un siècle<br />

plus tôt, un homme avait vécu les<br />

mêmes souffrances mais possédait<br />

comme moi la foi des bâtisseurs<br />

de cathédrales. A sa phrase “La vie<br />

sans but est une chimère. Où le<br />

songe devient la réalité” j’ai moimême<br />

peint en réponse plus tard<br />

“Il faut explorer l’utopie, le rêve est<br />

Over the past 13 years, in my battle<br />

against those forces working<br />

against me, my dizzy nights have<br />

<strong>of</strong>ten been spent thinking about a<br />

man who ­ just 100 km from here<br />

and a century earlier ­ had experienced<br />

the same pain as me,<br />

but, like me, possessed the same<br />

strength <strong>of</strong> conviction as cathedral<br />

builders. In response to his phrase<br />

“Life without purpose is a chimera.<br />

Where dreams become reality”<br />

I painted “You should explore<br />

réalité” sur la façade principale de<br />

La <strong>Demeure</strong> <strong>du</strong> <strong>Chaos</strong>.<br />

J’ai eu le bonheur de découvrir<br />

dans l’ouvrage “Avec le Facteur<br />

Cheval” de 2007, édité par<br />

le Musée de la Poste Paris etl’Ecole<br />

Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-<br />

Arts, dans le chapitre “Cheval<br />

et ses poulains” en page 18 :<br />

“Du pasatiempo de Bentazos<br />

de l’Espagnol Juan Garcia<br />

Utopia, dreams are reality” on the<br />

principal facade <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Abode</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>Chaos</strong>.<br />

I was naturally very pleased to discover<br />

in the book Avec le Facteur<br />

Cheval published in 2007, and edited<br />

by the Musée de La Poste<br />

in Paris and the Ecole Nationale<br />

Supérieure des Beaux­ Arts, in the<br />

chapter “Cheval and his foals” the<br />

following reference on page 18:<br />

From Juan Garcia Naveira’s fanta­<br />

Naveira, commenté en 1893, à la<br />

Cathédrale <strong>du</strong> vent de Linard, et à<br />

la Forge de Florence Maire, en passant<br />

par les maisons de Picassiette<br />

et de Tatin, le Village d’art préludien<br />

de Chomo, la ferme d’Arthur<br />

Vanabelle, La <strong>Demeure</strong> <strong>du</strong> <strong>Chaos</strong><br />

de thierry Ehrmann, baptisé le facteur<br />

Cheval <strong>du</strong> XXI ème siècle.”<br />

thierry Ehrmann<br />

sy park in Betanzos, Galicia, (commented<br />

in 1893), to Jean Linard’s<br />

Cathedral <strong>of</strong> Wind, and Florence<br />

Maire’s Forge in Honfleur, not to<br />

mention the houses <strong>of</strong> Picassiette<br />

and Tatin and Chomo’s Village<br />

<strong>of</strong> Preludian Art and Arthur<br />

Vanabelle’s farm… and then there<br />

is thierry Ehrmann’s <strong>Abode</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>Chaos</strong>, called the “Postman Cheval<br />

<strong>of</strong> the 21st Century”.<br />

thierry Ehrmann<br />

© Coll. Palais Idéal, Emmanuel Georges

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