Major Arcana Cards I-IV/XXII

The Tarots

Francesco Clemente (born 23 March 1952 in Naples)

Watercolour and gouache

2008 - 2011

From the exhibition devoted to this artist at the Albertina Museum in Vienna

 

Clemente "uses family members and friends as characters of the Major Arcana"*, the trump cards of the card game.

 

From left to right:

I. The Magician (Ron Arad)

II. The High Priestess (Betony Vernon)

III. The Empress (it is unknown whose vulva served the artist as a model)

IV. The Emperor (Edward Albee)

 

*Information text in the museum

 

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