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