Part of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, artist Marcel Dzama is preparing to premiere a new film at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art.  The film is part of a series of works exploring the wide-ranging impact of filmmaker David Cronenberg, and his particular school of thought and practice. Dzama’s film, A Jester’s Dance, features a newly awakened awakened Maria Martins (played by Kim Gordon and Hannelore Knuts), and her attempts to rescue her lover, Marcel Duchamp, from a fate reciting chess moves to an unseen game. (more…)

Marcel Dzama, The Chessmen (2010), courtesy David Zwirner London

Currently on view at David Zwirner gallery in London is a solo exhibition of new work by Marcel Dzama, spanning a diverse range of media that centers on the aesthetic and thematic elements of Chess. The exhibition, entitled Puppets, Pawns, and Prophets opened on April 5th and will continue through May 11th, 2013.

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