Video: Household chess
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
King, officer, bishop - all these chess pieces are no longer relevant. Now there is no reverence for either the monarchy or the army, and elephants in zoos evoke pity rather than fear and awe. And in general, what kind of chess can there be if there is so much to do around the house? It is for such, drawn-out people, the artist Rachel Whiteread created the Modern Chess Set.
Chess pieces are no longer relevant. Neither the king, nor the rook, nor the bishop, nor the officer are now something that people consider, that people are interested in. Life for people has become much more important than war. And everyday quarrels over unwashed dishes have become much more intense and intense events than modern wars.
Therefore, the artist Rachel Whitread has created the Modern Chess Set in a household style. Instead of the usual chess pieces, they use household appliances, furniture and other household items. Such chess is much closer and more interesting to a modern person.
Buckets, tables, chairs, ironing boards, cabinets, dressing table, TVs, floor lamps are used as figures on this board. Well, the most important figures - the refrigerator and the stove - are the main dreams of any housewives of the second half of the twentieth century. All these figures are taken by Rachel from doll houses. But chess turned out to be just for people.
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