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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PortraIts<br />
dé-légendés<br />
Les portraits dé-légendés qui sont<br />
une des grilles de lecture parmi les<br />
plus importantes de la <strong>Demeure</strong><br />
<strong>du</strong> <strong>Chaos</strong> connaissent une étrange<br />
destinée.<br />
Dans un premier temps, je réalise<br />
et codifie les portraits que je pressens<br />
pour une histoire future dans<br />
la presse écrite et audiovisuelle.<br />
L’absence de légende, sur les murs<br />
de la <strong>Demeure</strong> <strong>du</strong> <strong>Chaos</strong>, fait des<br />
portraits une mise en abîme. Ensuite,<br />
étrangement, d’année en<br />
année, avec nos 1 200 portraits essentiellement<br />
géopolitiques, de<br />
PortraIts<br />
unCaPtIoned<br />
Our uncaptioned external mural<br />
portraits one <strong>of</strong> the most important<br />
prisms for interpreting the<br />
<strong>Abode</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Chaos</strong> – are experiencing<br />
a bizarre destiny.<br />
First <strong>of</strong> all, I make and then codify<br />
the portraits <strong>of</strong> people I suspect<br />
will have a future history in<br />
the printed press and broadcast<br />
media. The absence <strong>of</strong> legends or<br />
caption on the 1,200 portraits <strong>of</strong><br />
geopolitical figures on the walls<br />
<strong>of</strong> the <strong>Abode</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Chaos</strong> allows a<br />
strange kind <strong>of</strong> miseenabîme effect:<br />
year after year, numerous<br />
major international newspapers<br />
grands journaux internationaux<br />
nous demandent de pouvoir repro<strong>du</strong>ire<br />
ces portraits dé-légendés,<br />
qu’ils re-légendent. Cette<br />
démarche originale répond aux besoins<br />
des services d’iconographie<br />
des grands titres de presse qui sont<br />
souvent lassés des éternels portraits<br />
des grandes agences de presse. Inconsciemment,<br />
le service d’iconographie<br />
de ces grands médias<br />
renoue avec la tradition <strong>du</strong> portrait<br />
qui, non seulement restitue le personnage<br />
et son contexte, mais plus<br />
encore, éprouve le besoin de poser<br />
une distance par rapport à la photo<br />
car le portrait peint possède ce<br />
supplément d’âme que l’objectif ne<br />
restituera jamais.<br />
thierry Ehrmann<br />
ask us for permission to repro<strong>du</strong>ce<br />
these uncaptioned portraits,<br />
which they the recaption. This<br />
original approach meets the needs<br />
<strong>of</strong> the iconography services <strong>of</strong> the<br />
big press media that are <strong>of</strong>ten<br />
tired <strong>of</strong> the <strong>of</strong>tenused portraits<br />
held by the major news agencies.<br />
Unconsciously, the iconography<br />
services <strong>of</strong> these major media are<br />
reviving the tradition <strong>of</strong> the portrait<br />
that not only restores the<br />
character and his/her context, but<br />
in addition, expresses the need for<br />
a certain distance between the picture<br />
and the viewer and possesses<br />
that additional soul that the lens<br />
can never repro<strong>du</strong>ce.<br />
thierry Ehrmann<br />
Page 160<br />
Leo Strauss<br />
Page 161<br />
Donald Rumsfeld<br />
160 161<br />
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