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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>Demeure</strong> <strong>du</strong> <strong>Chaos</strong> est 999 qui est<br />

entre autres, une évocation<br />

parallèle de Stalker d’Andreï<br />

Tarkovski (1979).<br />

Le virus H1N1, le tsunami de<br />

2004, la plate-forme pétrolière<br />

Deep Water Horizon et bien sûr<br />

Fukushima, ont donné lieu à des<br />

centaines d'œuvres à la <strong>Demeure</strong><br />

<strong>du</strong> <strong>Chaos</strong>, qui écrivent en temps<br />

réel cette gigantesque agence de<br />

presse dé-légendée sur 9 000 m².<br />

Ce texte lapidaire ne fait que<br />

survoler 30 ans de réflexion<br />

permanente et 13 ans de pro<strong>du</strong>ction<br />

artistique ayant abouti à ce<br />

Sanctuaire qu'est la <strong>Demeure</strong> <strong>du</strong><br />

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

Nous avons pourtant peint et<br />

sculpté pratiquement toutes les<br />

grandes guerres, la fonte des<br />

glaciers, la déforestation, la mort<br />

<strong>du</strong> capitalisme, les crimes contre<br />

l'humanité quel que soit le<br />

continent, la folie d'une science<br />

incontrôlable où l'homme se<br />

subroge désormais à son Dieu<br />

créateur, et nous avons abouti à<br />

plus de 4 500 œuvres.<br />

Ce court texte pourrait expliquer<br />

pourquoi avoir créé la <strong>Demeure</strong> <strong>du</strong><br />

<strong>Chaos</strong> et concentré tant de sujets<br />

aussi noirs :(...)<br />

J'ai acquis au cours de ces différents<br />

périples, tant spéculatifs<br />

qu'opératifs, la convition que la fin<br />

<strong>du</strong> monde ou la fin d'un monde est<br />

une nécessité dans la destinée<br />

humaine car elle est le moteur<br />

secret de nos angoisses, notre toute<br />

puissance et nos interrogations<br />

mystiques.<br />

La fiction est désormais absorbée<br />

par la réalité et peut-être qu'en<br />

écrivant ces quelques lignes, la fin<br />

de notre ancien monde a déjà<br />

commencé.<br />

thierry Ehrmann<br />

A mundo condito<br />

Page 362<br />

"Deepwater"<br />

Page 363<br />

"Peak Oil" inspiré de MadMax<br />

Inspired by Mad Max<br />

362 363<br />

2007/2009/2011, the last entitled<br />

“Survive the Apocalypse”, with the<br />

directive: “write what you have<br />

seen, what is, and what is yet to<br />

come”.<br />

In the <strong>Abode</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Chaos</strong> there is an<br />

ongoing study <strong>of</strong> survivalists from<br />

the year 2000, 9/11 and major<br />

ecological disasters.<br />

One <strong>of</strong> the historic film shootings<br />

at the <strong>Abode</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Chaos</strong> was 999:<br />

among other things, a parallel<br />

evocation <strong>of</strong> Stalker by Andrei<br />

Tarkovski (1979).<br />

The H1N1 virus, the tsunami <strong>of</strong><br />

2004, the Deep Water Horizon oil<br />

rig and <strong>of</strong> course Fukushima have<br />

inspired hundreds <strong>of</strong> works in the<br />

<strong>Abode</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Chaos</strong>, which all create<br />

this gigantic un­captioned,<br />

9,000 sq.m press agency in real<br />

time.<br />

This rather concise text only gives<br />

a brief overview <strong>of</strong> 30 years <strong>of</strong><br />

constant thinking, and 13 years <strong>of</strong><br />

the artistic pro<strong>du</strong>ction that has<br />

grown up in this Sanctuary, the<br />

<strong>Abode</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Chaos</strong>.<br />

And yet we have painted and<br />

sculpted practically all the major<br />

wars, the melting <strong>of</strong> the glaciers,<br />

deforestation, the death <strong>of</strong><br />

capitalism, crimes against<br />

humanity on every continent, and<br />

the madness <strong>of</strong> uncontrollable<br />

science where man now occupies<br />

the place <strong>of</strong> his creator god ­ and<br />

we have completed more than<br />

4,500 works.<br />

This short article explains the<br />

reason for creating the <strong>Abode</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>Chaos</strong>, and why it focuses on so<br />

many dark subjects: (...)<br />

During my various wanderings,<br />

speculative as well as operational,<br />

I have come to realise that the end<br />

<strong>of</strong> the world, or the end <strong>of</strong> a world,<br />

is a necessity in human destiny as<br />

the hidden driving force behind<br />

our anxieties, our omnipotence<br />

and our mystical questionings.<br />

Fiction is now absorbed by reality,<br />

and perhaps while I have been<br />

writing these lines, the end <strong>of</strong> our<br />

old world has already begun.<br />

thierry Ehrmann<br />

A mundo condito<br />

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