MARCEL DUCHAMP – A Game in A Game A Project by Ernst Strouhal
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Simulation of the exhibition (with mirrors, chessboard, chess pieces, figurines, and diagram) at the Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp |
MARCEL DUCHAMP – A Game in A Game
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Info
June 9 to September 8, 2012 Monday to Sunday round the clock
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Stefan Banz and Caroline Bachmann
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Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp
place d'Armes | quai de l'Indépendance
1096 Cully
Switzerland
An endgame from Opposition and Sister Squares are Reconciled by M. Duchamp & V. Halberstadt with Duchamp's chess pieces on a chessboard, mirrored so that it runs to infinity. Above it, the position projected in two dimensions. A diagram between heaven and earth, transparent, origin and direction of its movement undefined.
On the occasion of the exhibition a book will be published in which Strouhal playfully yet validly demonstrates how Opposition and Sister Squares are Reconciled by M. Duchamp & V. Halberstadt (1932) not only comprises a rare, almost utopian treatise on chess endgames but is also a unique chess book for artists and an artist's book for chess players: 176 pages; 14 x 10.5 cm; Deutsch | English | français; 62 color and 8 black and white images; ISBN 978-3-86984-327-8.
Two other books will be published on the same occasion:
Cildo Meireles | Antoni Muntadas, Salt & Sugar ... No Sugar, No Salt, 128 pages; 14 x 10.5 cm, English | Español, 66 color images; ISBN 978-3-86984-326-1.
Stefan Banz, Marcel Duchamp. 1° La chute d'eau, 364 pages, English | Deutsch | français, numerous color and black and white images; ISBN 978-3-86984-328-5.
