The exhibition "The Art of Chess", which will be held at London's Saatchi Gallery from September 8 to October 3, will feature authors chess from Maurizio Cattelan, the Chapman Brothers, Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst, Yayoi Kusama and other

Saatchi Gallery , London,
September 8 - October 3, 2012

Saatchi Gallery in London this Saturday presents "The Art of Chess" (" The Art of Chess »), which will showcase the designs of chess stars Contemporary Art. The epigraph to the exhibition can serve as a statement of Marcel Duchamp in 1952: "From my close contact with artists and chess players, I have concluded that the artists can not be chess players, but all chess players are artists."

Yayoi Kusama from Chess Source: arrestedmotion.com

Yayoi Kusama from Chess Source: arrestedmotion.com

Total for the show was created 16 original chess sets by authors such as Maurizio Cattelan (Maurizio Cattelan), Jake and Dinos Chapman (Jake and Dinos Chapman), Oliver Clegg (Oliver Clegg), Tracey Emin (Tracey Emin), Tom Friedman ( Tom Friedman), Damien Hirst (Damien Hirst), Barbara Kruger (Barbara Kruger), Yayoi Kusama (Yayoi Kusama), Paul McCarthy (Paul McCarthy), Rachel Whiteread (Rachel Whiteread), and others. Each chess set was created by hand from a variety of materials - wood, porcelain, glass, amber, silver and other.

British creative duo Tim Noble (Tim Noble) and Sue Webster (Sue Webster) for an exhibition at the Saatchi created chess, very close to nature. In the wide tree stump in the woods apart large bronze figures in the form of stuffed animals. Mummified proteins play the role of the king and queen, and the frogs - pawns. These artists have long been experimenting with taxidermist topic: they are famous so-called "shadow sculptures" when abstract sculptural forms of trash or stuffed in the right light cast a shadow on the wall in the form of humans or animals.

Rachel Whiteread in your chess set put dollhouse hobby - for the figures she used miniature furniture. And Tom Friedman turned the chess table in a mini-retrospective of his most famous works. Chess pieces Barbara Kruger ask questions or recommend something every time you make them move. At Damien Hirst as figures used glass and silver jars of pills. Well, an avid chess player Paul McCarthy created a set of different objects found in your own kitchen - for example, hand grinder and a bottle of ketchup act as a rook.

Prepared Maria Onuchina, AI

Source: artinvestment.ru