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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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Comment peut-on bâtir ex-nihilo<br />

Artprice, société mythique qui<br />

source 90% de la presse mondiale<br />

sur l’information <strong>du</strong> marché de<br />

l’art, sans être soi-même, dans sa<br />

chair et son âme, un plasticien passionné<br />

d’histoire de l’art ?<br />

La <strong>Demeure</strong> <strong>du</strong> <strong>Chaos</strong> est une redoutable<br />

machine de guerre, un<br />

cheval de Troie au cœur des marchés<br />

financiers. Elle pro<strong>du</strong>it et diffuse<br />

des sommes de connaissances<br />

inimaginables sur le marché de<br />

l’art, <strong>du</strong> droit, de l’économie, de la<br />

science pendant que jours et nuits,<br />

nous autres plasticiens, interve-<br />

nons sur les 9 000 m 2 pour (ré)<br />

écrire avec notre regard d’artiste,<br />

l’histoire <strong>du</strong> monde dé-légendée.<br />

Nos interventions radicales sur la<br />

déconstruction de l’habitat pr<strong>of</strong>essionnel<br />

et personnel ainsi que <strong>du</strong><br />

mobilier a impacté les 2 500 m 2 de<br />

bureaux où travaillent le Groupe<br />

Serveur, ses filiales, et Artprice.<br />

Cette démarche humaniste est<br />

partagée entre les artistes et les collaborateurs<br />

des deux groupes.<br />

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

deux visages : celui de l’Alchimie<br />

(L’Esprit de la Salamandre) et ce-<br />

lui de l’hyper modernité. Mais elle<br />

a aussi deux incarnations : celle de<br />

l’incarnat physique, avec ses 4 509<br />

œuvres (sculptures, peintures, installations)<br />

gravées dans sa chair,<br />

avec son double sur Internet où<br />

plus de 1 800 000 sites/homepage/<br />

blog restituent en photos ou en vidéos<br />

tous les regards <strong>du</strong> monde<br />

sur les entrailles de la <strong>Demeure</strong><br />

<strong>du</strong> <strong>Chaos</strong> lors de leurs visites. Sur<br />

Google, en novembre 2007, sur les<br />

requêtes “<strong>Demeure</strong> <strong>du</strong> <strong>Chaos</strong>” et<br />

“<strong>Abode</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Chaos</strong>”, il sort 1 413 000<br />

résultats pointant sur des millions<br />

de photos et vidéos de la <strong>Demeure</strong><br />

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

How can one build, from nothing,<br />

Artprice, a mythic company providing<br />

copy for 90 <strong>of</strong> the global art<br />

market press ­ without being oneself,<br />

both in mind and in body, an<br />

artist with a passion for art history?<br />

The <strong>Abode</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Chaos</strong> is a redoubtable<br />

war machine, a Trojan horse<br />

at the heart <strong>of</strong> the financial markets.<br />

It pro<strong>du</strong>ces and diffuses<br />

unimaginable quantities <strong>of</strong> knowledge<br />

about the art market, law, the<br />

economy and science, while day<br />

and night, our other artists occupy<br />

9,000 sq.m to (re)write ­ with our<br />

480 481<br />

artistic viewpoint ­ the “history <strong>of</strong><br />

the world without subtext”.<br />

Our radical deconstruction <strong>of</strong> the<br />

traditional barrier between living<br />

space and work space and <strong>of</strong> furniture<br />

in these spaces has had an<br />

impact on the 2,500 sq.m <strong>of</strong> <strong>of</strong>fices<br />

where The server Group, its subsidiaries<br />

and Artprice are resident.<br />

This humanist approach is shared<br />

by the artists and employees <strong>of</strong> the<br />

two Groups.<br />

The <strong>Abode</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Chaos</strong> has two faces:<br />

that <strong>of</strong> Alchemy (The Spirit <strong>of</strong> the<br />

Lizard) and that <strong>of</strong> hypermoder­<br />

nity. But it also has two incarnations:<br />

physical embodiment, with<br />

its 3,123 works (sculptures, paintings,<br />

installations) engraved in its<br />

flesh, and its “double” on Internet<br />

with more than 1,200,000 sites<br />

presenting photos and videos taken<br />

<strong>du</strong>ring visits to the <strong>Abode</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>Chaos</strong>. In November 2007, if you<br />

search Google with “<strong>Abode</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>Chaos</strong>” and “<strong>Abode</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Chaos</strong>”, you<br />

get 1,413,000 results leading to<br />

millions <strong>of</strong> photos and videos <strong>of</strong><br />

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

In fact, I am convinced that the<br />

Internet is a metaphor for the<br />

Algorithme

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