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In further online adventures, I bring you: “the art of chess.”

Via designboom, pictures of various famous artists’ reinterpretations of chess boards. I only have the attention span for checkers (and even then, just barely), but I would probably play with these pieces.

‘modern chess set’, rachel whiteread 2005

‘modern chess set’, detail

‘untitled’, barbara kruger 2006

‘untitled’, detail

‘chess set’, jack and dinos chapman 2003

‘chess set’, detail

‘amorphous organic’, alastair mackie 2008

‘amorphous organic’, detail

And for context: ‘the art of chess’ is an exhibition of seven chess sets created by a group of contemporary artists including jake and dinos chapman, tracey emin, tom friedman, damien hirst, barbara kruger, alastair mackie and rachel whiteread. each artist infused their own interpretation of the board game in real dimensions. the exhibition is set to open on the 49th edition of the milan furniture fair on april 14th at project b gallery, in milan. this event which is part of the fuori salone will be on display until april 29th. – designboom.