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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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Pages 42/43<br />

"Lames alchimiques"<br />

(acier brut / raw steel),<br />

Sculptures de thierry Ehrmann<br />

Détail d'une lame<br />

Focus on a blade<br />

trente ans de sCulPtures<br />

de thIerry ehrmann (1982-2012)<br />

À la question qui revient sans cesse<br />

par les visiteurs <strong>du</strong> musée : a-t-on<br />

le droit de toucher mes sculptures ?<br />

Je réponds OUI ! Pour le plaisir<br />

des yeux et <strong>du</strong> toucher car elles<br />

sont faites pour être en contact<br />

corporel avec vous. Je sens déjà,<br />

qu’au-delà de l’exposition ; “trente<br />

ans de sculptures de thierry Ehrmann<br />

(1982-2012)” - avec 702<br />

sculptures d’acier brut de 20 mm<br />

créées in situ depuis 2 ans - il se<br />

prépare une suite grandiose et<br />

décadente.<br />

Nous avons pris contact avec des<br />

fournisseurs d’aciers spéciaux de<br />

200 à 500 mm d’épaisseur (Aérospatiale,<br />

usage militaire…) qui vont<br />

nous permettre des installations<br />

monstrueuses à faire rougir l’Araignée<br />

de Louise BOURGEOIS<br />

au Guggenheim. Le volume et la<br />

sculpture chez moi est une passion,<br />

déjà en école primaire je me faisais<br />

virer car je créais en “loucedé” des<br />

maquettes de sculpture et installation<br />

en balsa, carton, bois, etc…<br />

planqué au fond de la classe.<br />

Le but sera d’arriver en 2012/2016<br />

à créer une deuxième <strong>Demeure</strong> <strong>du</strong><br />

<strong>Chaos</strong> qui se superpose comme un<br />

infra-mince à la première ; l’invi-<br />

tation au voyage vous permettra<br />

entre autre d’être<br />

au-dessus <strong>du</strong> Temple Protestant<br />

par des sculptures<br />

sans frôler les fouilles. Vous pourrez<br />

aussi visionner l’intérieur de la<br />

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

Groupe Serveur de manière iconoclaste<br />

par des installations surréalistes<br />

utilisant les souterrains<br />

secrets. Et oui ! Le Grand Œuvre<br />

continue de plus belle, quel que<br />

soit le nombre incalculable de<br />

conflits que je subis en mode guerrier<br />

par les réacs en tout genre.<br />

Qu’ils se le disent, la <strong>Demeure</strong> <strong>du</strong><br />

<strong>Chaos</strong> est un monstre, elle est affamée<br />

et furieusement dadaïste.<br />

thierry Ehrmann, 2012<br />

I am constantly asked by visitors<br />

to the museum: can we touch<br />

your sculptures? My answer is<br />

YES! They were made to please the<br />

eye and be touched – to come into<br />

physical contact with the viewer.<br />

I can feel that a monumental<br />

and decadent project is preparing<br />

and will commence after the<br />

exhibition Thirty years <strong>of</strong> thierry<br />

Ehrmann sculptures (1982­2012),<br />

featuring 702 works <strong>of</strong> 20mmthick<br />

steel created in situ over a<br />

period <strong>of</strong> 2 years.<br />

We are currently in touch with<br />

suppliers <strong>of</strong> crude steel (used in<br />

aerospace and military applications)<br />

ranging in thickness from<br />

200mm to 500mm that will make<br />

Louise Bourgeois’ Guggenheim<br />

42 43<br />

Spider blush. I have always had<br />

a passion for volume and sculpture.<br />

As far back as primary school<br />

I was disciplined for craftily hiding<br />

mock­ups <strong>of</strong> sculptures made<br />

out <strong>of</strong> balsa wood, cardboard and<br />

wood at the back <strong>of</strong> the classroom.<br />

The goal over the 2012/2016 period<br />

is to create a second “<strong>Abode</strong><br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>Chaos</strong>” that will be superimposed<br />

as an “infra­thin” second<br />

layer – one that is barely perceptible<br />

– over the first. The invitation<br />

to this voyage will feature sculptures<br />

that place you above the<br />

Protestant Temple without coming<br />

into contact with the excavations<br />

beneath it. You will also be able to<br />

view the interior <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Demeure</strong><br />

<strong>du</strong> <strong>Chaos</strong> and Artprice / the Server<br />

Group through a series <strong>of</strong> iconoclastic<br />

installations set in a secret<br />

underground world. So yes!<br />

the Great Work continues unabated,<br />

regardless <strong>of</strong> how many aggressive<br />

attacks by reactionaries <strong>of</strong> all<br />

stripes I have to en<strong>du</strong>re. Make no<br />

mistake, the <strong>Demeure</strong> de <strong>Chaos</strong> is<br />

a monster, it is hungry and it is furiously<br />

Dada.<br />

thierry Ehrmann, 2012<br />

thierry Ehrmann lors de<br />

l'installation d'une sculpture de<br />

neuf tonnes d'acier<br />

thierry Ehrmann, while installing<br />

a 9-ton steel sculpture<br />

thIrty years oF sCulPture<br />

by thIerry ehrmann<br />

scarification

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