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