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Euro Gallery Live Art

We believe that the topic of Chess is very much neglected in the World of Art. For this reason Euro Gallery Live Art, together with an International Artist, have created an exhibition of a series of ‘Chess’ related works. These paintings will be shown ‘live’ over the World Wide Web per daily upload. We cordially invite all Chess Players, Enthusiasts and friends of the game Worldwide to view and experience this extraordinary Event.

You do not have to visit a Gallery: as we bring the Gallery Exhibition to you:

"Die Angst der Schachspieler vor dem Computer" (The fear of the chess players of the computer)

by Siegfried Zademack

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"Towering castle, grazing the clouds"

Eurogallery Art and Trading Managing Director Wolfgang Saddey writes: "We now have the 1 Painting from the 12 Picture Series ready. The original Art Work cost 4800 Euros. But of course we produce also Limited and Hand signet Prints from the Original. World Wide only 200 Prints."

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Artist: Joachim Lehrer

This Live Art Event started on
Friday 26.08.2005.

The first Motif reflects the game:
Byrne-v- Fischer New York 1956.
Bobby Fisher was 13 Years old.

"Chess is certainly the most beautiful and fascinating game in the world, it almost moves in the spheres of art and science. It therefore isn't surprising that artists regularly take this game of kings as their subject - as I shall be doing in my next work.

Not an easy task, because chess has more in common with music than with a picture. It's the progression, the elegant turns and twists, that fascinate in this game.

The approach taken by most chess pictorial art is to operate with the aesthetics of the pieces, tying in completely different associations at the symbolic level. Here, in my new work, I would like to try another approach by making the game itself the subject, thus remaining true to it while illustrating its martial, pure, and yes, almost unworldly, characteristics.

How do I proceed to do so? In my picture, the chess game is the world. A position can be seen, and this position must conform to a whole range of requirements: It must come from a very special game. For clarity, the position must only show a few pieces. Therefore it must be an endgame position. But endgames - even outstanding ones - can mostly offer only a handful of pawns and a few more valuable chess pieces. And that poses somewhat of a problem - particularly since I participated in my last team game in 1986 and haven't really kept up with developments in the chess world since then.

I have now come across a Byrne – Fischer game in New York in 1956 that made Bobby Fischer, then 13 years old, famous at a stroke. This game also won the "beauty prize" of the contest. And here I use the endgame position, with just a few pieces, but all of those that were on the board.

Endgame position? Actually not - another little peculiarity of this match: From the 37th move on, Fischer carried out an irresistible checkmate attack in five moves. And this is the ever-so-tiny flaw in the game: checkmate could have been achieved in four moves - and that position can be seen here. The last move leading to checkmate is carried out by the castle in the foreground to E1. It will receive a prominent place in the picture.

And now from the theory to the practice – to the execution of the picture. Prepare to be surprised!"

See all the works so far in this series!

Now, for some other chess-themed art works from the gallery: