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99 Chimaerae di Ostuni      1974 Lorenzo Ostuni      Italy                                                   Art Medium: Probably acrylic or gouache, using various techniques such as splattering pigment. Some colleaged elements and pen line drawing. Description: Three sets of 33 cards - blue cards are the cards of life and time, red cards concern Love and Being, black cards concern death and eternity. Each card is associated with a daemon. Lorenzo Ostuni is an Italian philosopher, symbologic therapist with an international reputation. Since the 60's, he devoted himself to the study of symbols and their use as a tool for in-depth knowledge. He created several semiological systems, symbology and literature for this purpose (the most well-known being the Biodramma, the Mirrors and Therapy, 99 Chimera, the Sphinx). Many well known people such as Fellini, Gassman, Angelopoulos attended his study centre The Cave of Plato in Rome, as well as thousands of participants in his seminars in Italy and the United States, where he taught at the Esalen Institute. Lorenzo Ostuni was also the creator and producer of television drama and significant art films that won awards at Cannes and Venice.