TALASKY - Queen’s Gambit: Play to Win 1/1 (No Reserve)

Queen’s Gambit: Play to Win
Mixed-media artwork by TALASKY
Framed size: 27 x 27 x 6 cm
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TALASKY (b. 1990), born as Gyula Takacs, is a multidisciplinary hungarian artist, graduated architect, and industrial designer. His work blends structural thinking with conceptual expression, using both digital and handcrafted techniques. The artist has received international awards and recognitions in design and art, and his artworks have been collected and sold in monre than 20 countries across Europe, Asia, and North America. He has exhibited his work in both solo and group exhibitions in Europe, including Milan, Helsinki, Berlin and Budapest. Under the artist name TALASKY, he creates bold, pop-up mixed-media pieces that explore geometry, vivid color combinations, strategy, and the poetic tension of the chessboard. As a chess player, he brings strategic insight directly into his art.

In this piece TALASKY reimagines the chessboard as a bold declaration of intention: an arena where confidence, intuition, and ambition collide. Breaking away from the traditional black-and-white palette, the artist floods the scene with vivid reds and electric pinks, transforming the game’s rigid logic into a celebration of color, energy, and unapologetic drive.

Abstract and scuplted 3D-printed chess forms rise from a hand-crafted geometric board, combining color, structure, and shadow into a single striking composition. Some pieces push beyond the frame while others remain confined, echoing the tension between movement and stillness that defines both chess and life. The red tones pulse with urgency, determination, and calculated aggression, while the pink infuses the composition with daring creativity, emotional intelligence, and a touch of rebellious elegance. Together, these colors challenge the assumption that strategy must be cold or neutral; instead, they frame the game as something alive, expressive, and deeply personal.

Pieces that extend beyond the edge of the board symbolize moves already made: risks taken, lessons learned, victories earned. Their presence outside the grid emphasizes that every bold play in the present is shaped by the past. Each sacrifice becomes part of the momentum that pushes the queen forward.

TALASKY transforms the Queen’s Gambit into a metaphor for agency, passion, and fearless decision-making. The board becomes a portrait of ambition itself: structured yet expressive, strategic yet vibrant, defined not only by rules but by the courage to break them.