The acts are tangible but destined to remain unresolved: Composing a concert for chess and piano in A minor on a piano-chessboard of his invention, researching the perfect tune on a piano and, finally, embarking on the impossible challenge of counting the stars. The meditative, slow rythmed musical score, subdivided into three movements, opens with the artist engaged in a chess game at the renowned Marshall Chess Club in Manhattan, attended by Duchamp himself during his stay in

New York. Then, in the second and third movements, the film moves through natural, boundless landscapes, made even grander by the aerial shots, while the artist’s slight figure progressively walks away.

The alternation of close-ups and long shots renews a double distance that creates a unique and unrepeatable vision. For the artist, using images means working on emotions, enhanced by experimental combinations between apparently distant fields and made tangible in the performance that opened the exhibition, during which he played his piano-chessboard, accompanied by a violin orchestra. It is a way of

metaphorically summarizing the meaning of every work of art — contributing to the renewal of its language and to the invention of new thought.

(Translated from Italian by Jacopo Penzo)