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Luhring Augustine Presents Guido van der Werve’s Film Nummer Twaalf

NEW YORK, NY.- Luhring Augustine announced the presentation of Dutch artist Guido van der Werve’s film Nummer twaalf. This exhibition is van der Werve’s first with Luhring Augustine. The exhibition opens on February 6 and runs through March 13, 2010. Nummer twaalf revolves around three questions dealing with infinity, each explored in a separate scene: The King’s Gambit accepted, the number of stars in the sky and why a piano cannot be tuned or waiting for an earthquake. The film opens with a scene of the artist playing chess with Grandmaster Leonid Yudasin. The two men play on a unique chess-piano created by van der Werve and designed so that each of the 64 squares of the chess board simultaneously functions as a piano key. Yudasin composed a balanced game