On their honeymoon, Marcel Duchamp was more concerned about solving their chess games mentally to p

On their honeymoon, Marcel Duchamp was more concerned about solving their chess games mentally to please his new wife. One morning found that all pieces were attached to the board. Teeny Duchamp, who was also a player, he took a symbolic revenge. The truth is that chess has fascinated and even obsessed - as in the case of Duchamp - many artists. The inventor of ready made made a presentation in New York, in 1944, by Max Ernst titled The imagery of chess. In 1968 performed with John Cage performance at the Ryerson Theatre in Toronto, woman magazine uk Canada. Entitled Meeting, was that Cage and Duchamp playing a game on a board - built by Lowell Cross - which had been fitted with contact microphones, woman magazine uk says the biographer of the artist, Calvin Tomkins. "Every time a piece was moved, woman magazine uk rang a range of electronic noises amplified and oscilloscopic woman magazine uk on television screens visible to the public."
The fact is that a number of artists have been commissioned by the Saatchi Gallery and the British insurer RS & A a series of 16 chess games. Payroll is promising: Maurizio Cattelan, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst, Barbara Kruger, Yayoi Kusama, Paul McCarthy, Rachel Whiteread, Alastair Mackie, Tim Noble and Sue Webster, Matthew Ronay, Tunga, Gavin Turk, Oliver Clegg , Tom Friedman and Paul Fryer. Although some of them have already been shown in previous exhibitions, from September 8 in London may be all these works together for the first time under the title The Art of Chess.
Rachel Whiteread was inspired dollhouses to create your chess, while Tracey Emin - playing since age six - is soft and portable, each cell board is hand-embroidered fabric for her figures or phrases. The Chapman brothers ironic continue to show truculence facing two gangs of girls, white and black, all with phallic nose, who fight on a board of skulls. Barbara Kruger has created a talking chess where every time you move a piece that is scheduled to make or answer a question like: "I never remember my dreams" or "Basically, it's me." Very in your line.
Damien Hirst pharmaceutical appeals to his side and proposes a sterile environment with a glass backboard and pieces that are medicine bottles. At the other end, Paul McCarthy, compulsive gambler, has seized various items found in your kitchen - from a grater or an ashtray, a bottle of ketchup or mashed potatoes plasta - to raise the so-called "game of kings ". The Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama octogenarian puts his colorful creation inside a pumpkin, all punctuated by the famous polka dots in bright colors. Maurizio Cattelan faces and great historical figures in a struggle between Good and Evil The curators of this exhibition are the artists Tim Noble and Sue Webster who bring a chess set in a spooky forest with bronze figures cast from stuffed animals.
"When you play a game it's like design woman magazine uk something or you built a mechanism through which you win or lose," Duchamp once said, we ended up leaving the art to avoid distractions in this game addictive hobby. "The competitive aspect woman magazine uk not important. The game itself is very, very plastic. That's probably what drew me to him so much. " There is a famous photo of Julian Wasser, 1963, in which he appears before a board Duchamp meditating in front of a nude model, writer Eve Babitz, an expert in the California subculture. The chameleon Japanese artist Yasumasa Morimura recreates that scene transfigured both the model and the artist. Chess is an ancient game of strategy, contemporary artists also transform it into a scene of her fantasies.
Since we are at the beginning of the school year is well reencordar that chess is not just memory ... creativity, intuition, strategy, attitude, woman magazine uk empathy, emotion .... arts have something to say ... like school, not memory only, or not ...?
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