Tom Hackney debuts new exhibit of paintings at the World Chess Hall of Fame

Tom Hackney debuts new exhibit of paintings at the World Chess Hall of Fame

... Hackney’s paintings, all made on linen, are geometric abstractions based on the movement of chess pieces in games played by the celebrated French artist and chess player, Marcel Duchamp

SAINT LOUIS, MO.- The World Chess Hall of Fame debuted an exhibition of paintings, Tom Hackney: Corresponding Squares: Painting the Chess Games of Marcel Duchamp, on May 19.


 ... Hackney’s paintings, all made on linen, are geometric abstractions based on the movement of chess pieces in games played by the celebrated French artist and chess player, Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), from the early 1920s through the 1960s. Duchamp once said that playing a game of chess was like making a drawing: “The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts, and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem.” ...

A Portrait of American Artist Man Ray (L) (1890 - 1976) Sitting and Playing Chess With French Artist Marcel Duchamp (1887 - 1968), Using Geometric Chess Pieces, January 1, 1952. Courtesy of Michel Sima/RDA/Getty Images.