• MATTOMATT Schachobjekte von Jürg Hassler

MATTOMATT Schachobjekte von Jürg Hassler

Jürg Hassler develops chess games that emphasize the aspects of play and enjoyment – not focusing on the urge to win, but instead continually inventing new ways to frame the game's dialectic of contrast using form rather than color. In 2000, Hassler began to explore the boundaries the game offered him, and then proceeded to transcend them. He found the 64 white and black squares of the chessboard too flat from the start, and the figures too rudimentary. Experimenting with materials such as wood, stone and metal, and thereby creating figures that generate their own formal vocabulary, the artist unfolds an astounding creativity. What remains untouched are the rules of the game, so that all of the artist's works can actually be used to play chess. This catalog shows 37 of Hassler's chess objects, documenting a unique reformulation of the age-old pastime.

Hardcover 23 x 17 cm 96 pages 45 color illustrations French, German Available ISBN 978-3-86828-044-9 2008

Artist:

Jürg Hassler

Editor:

Museum Tinguely Basel

Texts:

Jürg Hassler, Guido Magnaguagno, Brigitte Meles

Exhibitions

Museum Tinguely, Basel
22.10.2008 – 18.01.2009

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