The exhibition Major Arcana comes from the idea of asking 22 artists from different generations and backgrounds to make a deck of Tarot cards.
Each of the artists invited by Massimo Kaufmann has been selected to interpret one figure of the Arcana. The criteria behind the choice are absolutely arbitrary, but an attempt has been made to reflect the artist, his or her iconographic world, style and even personality.
In this show, therefore, Italian art becomes a sort of game in which the cards are constantly re-shuffled, the metaphor of an oracular art through which to predict the future.
The 22 artists invited have taken part in response to the requests of the curator, who has attempted to identify, for each of the Arcana, the personality most suited to its realization, relying on a mechanism of formal or personal ‘elective affinities’.
The catalogue will be a real Tarot deck, 22 cards in the format 13.5 x 18 cm, published by Massimo Kaufmann and Iaia Filiberti, in an edition of 1000 hand-numbered units, including a text by the curator and reproductions of the works. The works, made with different techniques – painting, drawing, pastels, ink, photography – all measure 40 x 30 cm.
The show, produced by Galleria Antonio Colombo in collaboration with Galleria InArco of Turin, will be presented at the Galleria Colombo from 8 to 23 February 2007, and then at Galleria InArco from 6 March to 13 April 2007. 


Sandro Chia               I            The Magician
Iaia Filiberti                II          The High Priestess
Alessandro Bazan      III         The Empress
Mimmo Paladino         IV         The Emperor
Piero Pizzi Cannella    V          The Hierophant
Marco Cingolani          VI         The Lovers
Laboratorio Saccardi  VII        The Chariot
Stefania Romano        VIII      Justice
Giuseppe Gallo           IX         The Hermit
Chiara Dynys              X          Wheel of Fortune
Nicola Verlato             XI         Strenght
Andrea Mastrovito      XII       The Hanged Man
Pierluigi Calignano      XIII      Death
Francesco De Grandi   XIV      Temperance
Carol Rama                 XV       The Devil
Carlo Spoldi                XVI      The Tower
Nicola De Maria          XVII      The Stars
Gianni Dessì               XVIII    The Moon
Katja Noppes             XIX      The Sun
Giuliano Guatta          XX        Judgement
Vincenzo Cabiati        XXI      The World
Enzo Cucchi                           The Fool

Opening Thursday 8 February 2007, 18.30
on view until 23 February, Tues-Sat, 16.00-19.30