TUNGA (1952-2016)

Brazilian artist Tunga often creates work with exotic materials that focuses on the female body, sexuality and cultural rituals. To arrive at his Eye for an Eye chess set design the artist literally delved into the body as well as the cultural history of the game. He reasoned that there are thirty-two teeth in one’s mouth just as there are thirty-two chess pieces, and has presented them as oversized bronze casts on an elegant chessboard. In doing so, Tunga has created a naturally integrated and harmonious ensemble of the most durable forms in the human body while also associating chess play with the Freudian links between teeth and sexual anxieties.

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