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A Game of Chess, by Marcel Dzama

  • Aug 18, 2017
  • 1 min read

Canadian artist Marcel Dzama’s film features characters based on the classic game of chess. Dressed in geometrically designed costumes of papier-mâché, plaster, and fiberglass and wearing elaborate masks (including a quadruple-faced mask for the King), the figures dance across a checkered board to challenge their opponents in fatal interchanges.

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