Abode of Chaos
Illustration — Abode of Chaos (2012) The Abode of Chaos (Demeure du Chaos) is a contemporary art museum located in Saint-Romain-au-Mont-d'Or, a small town in the vicinity of Lyon, France, with over 2,500 works from many different artists, including the owner Thierry Ehrmann. Ehrmann is the founder and CEO of Groupe Serveur and Artprice.com, both of which are headquartered at the Abode. The artwork is based around the transformation of the 17th century post house into a replica (post-)war zone, which contrasts with the peaceful village a few kilometers up the Saône river from Lyon.
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Illustration — Abode of Chaos (2012) The Abode of Chaos (Demeure du Chaos) is a contemporary art museum located in Saint-Romain-au-Mont-d'Or, a small town in the vicinity of Lyon, France, with over 2,500 works from many different artists, including the owner Thierry Ehrmann. Ehrmann is the founder and CEO of Groupe Serveur and Artprice.com, both of which are headquartered at the Abode. The artwork is based around the transformation of the 17th century post house into a replica (post-)war zone, which contrasts with the peaceful village a few kilometers up the Saône river from Lyon.
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The mayor of the town said of the house: "It's humanly intolerable, ugly, dramatic, with its images of destruction. Whatever you think, for me it's not art, it's a provocation." The Abode of Chaos has been the subject of several lawsuits, and – in 2009 – France's highest court, the Court of Cassation, ruled that Ehrmann would have to revert his home to its pre-Abode of Chaos state. In 2013, the Grenoble Court of Appeals imposed a fine for continued non-compliance of €750 per day. The Court of Cassation intervened in the case again in 2014 by reversing the lower court's decision, ruling that Ehrmann should have been assisted by counsel or his wife at the 2013 hearing because of his manic-depressive condition. In 2016, Ehrmann claimed "absolute victory" on his blog because of the passage of the law on freedom of creation, architecture and patrimony.
Recorded constituent parts are Musée l'organe. It is associated with France. Its recorded founders are Thierry Ehrmann.
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- 1.L'Organe. societe.com.
- 2.La Demeure du Chaos (Musée l'Organe). lyonpoche.com.
- 3.Lyon : le temple de St Romain de Couzon. temples.free.fr.
- 4.Dans la ville de Lyon, cité épiscopale, l'Édit de Nantes de 1598 reconnaissant le protestantisme comme religion et autorisant les protestants à pratiquer toutes les professions et leur garantissant la liberté de conscience n'était pas entré en vigueur. Les protestants lyonnais avaient été autorisé par jugement à louer un bâtiment à Oullins pour y célébrer le culte dominical, mais Alphonse Louis Plessis de Richelieu, archevêque de Lyon devenu seigneur de la ville, y fit interdire le culte protestant en 1630.
- 5.Histoire des protestants à Lyon. Au Jet d'Ancre. 1994. 2-910406-01-6.
- 6.Lyon Poche
- 7.La dernière publication du catalogue raisonné de la Demeure du Chaos datant de mai 2006 recense œuvres réalisées par 45 artistes. Les nouveaux chiffres tirés du site officiel de la Demeure du Chaos n'ont pas encore été publiés ni vérifiés.
- 8.The neighbor from Hell
- 9.Reconnaissance officielle par Madame Rachida Dati, Ministre de la Culture, de la Demeure du Chaos comme œuvre d'art totale de thierry Ehrmann, au cœur du siège mondial d'Artprice by Artmarket. www.prnewswire.com.
- 10.Site du Collectif Saint Romain
- 11.Fermeture de la demeure du chaos. Petitions24.net.
- 12.Nombre de signataires du collectif Saint Romain au Mont d’Or. collectifsaintromainaumontdor. 2015-06-02.
- 13.Isabelle Tallec. Victoire du Chaos. lexpress.fr.
- 14.« La Demeure du Chaos » en cassation - 20Minutes.fr, information en continu
- 15.Terrorising the French countryside. smh.com.au.
- 16.Cour de Cassation, arrêt du 11 décembre 2007
- 17.France, Cour de cassation, Chambre criminelle, 15 décembre 2009, 09-80709. juricaf.org.
- 18.Pourquoi je saisis La Cour Européenne des Droits de l’Homme pour défendre la liberté d’expression en France. blog.ehrmann.org.
- 19.Wall street journal
- 20.https://artpressagency.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/lettre-officielle-me-benabent-13-03-13-1.pdf
- 21.“La Demeure du Chaos” : le bras de fer s’éternise au tribunal de Lyon. Lyon Mag. 17 1 2022.
- 22.Fabrice Roussel. Saint-Romain-au-Mont-d’Or : une victoire pour Thierry Ehrmann et la Demeure du Chaos. Le Progrès. 11 2 2022.
- 23.Demeure du Chaos : le nouveau maire de Saint-Romain suspend les procédures judiciaires. Lyon Mag. 18 3 2022.
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