Chess set pieces by Man Ray Sale and directors have taken the

and directors have taken the stage

actor Russell Tovey and gallerist Robert Diament

queer identities and single motherhood - all deemed scandalous

) Centuries later

it’s ‘Top Gun

Chess set pieces by Man Ray Sale and directors have taken theIn this set, the Surrealist artist Man Ray translates traditional chess pieces into pure geometric forms abandoning all classical and figurative characteristics used to define the pieces. Instead, he composed them of pure Euclidean geometric ideal forms cube, sphere, pyramid and cone. Dadaist that he was, one discordant form was interjected into the set. He based the form of the Knight on a found object in his studio, the head scroll of a violin.