Anna Luna Astolfi, Il Matto è il Mondo – Tarots

How better to celebrate Epiphany together than with a presentation of the Tarot of our Luna?

The Tarot is an art that does not allow itself to be imprisoned by any kind of rigidity: the Arcana that compose them are a mirror and not a truth in themselves. They are chameleons, transforming themselves to adapt to the observer. If we seem to see our own life in them, it is because the juxtaposition of their images can contain any story, hence also our own. The photographs that make up Il Matto è Il Mondo – Tarot have been created by walking through each Arcana with the aim of remaining faithful to and at the same time constantly betraying the original iconography of the Tarot, combining tarology, stage-photography and photographic diary. The Triumphs, or Major Arcana, form a narrative that condenses in itself all the experiences that a human being can live through in the arc of his or her existence as an expression of a complete initiatory journey. In this work, through the photographic image, we take possession of the stages of that journey by imagining the Triumphs outside their own map. They are here brought to life and made flesh, they are observed inside their own clothes and beyond the frame of the paper that contains them.

Inside the box, in addition to the 22 Major Arcana, a booklet acting as a guide briefly introduces the history of the Tarot and illustrates the composition and characteristics of the pack of cards, describing each figure through key words, a short text and some questions that the card may inspire. In the second booklet, an essay by Emanuele E. Pelilli and a short story by Alessandro Carrer provide further insight into the subject.