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EntroalPercorso Tarot      2010 Martino Barbieri and Morena Poltronieri      Italy                                                   Art Medium: Description: The EntroalPercorso ("into the path") tarot was created by the Italian sculptor Martino Barbieri (1948-2009). Sadly he died of cancer before completing the images. His good friend Morena Poltronieri of the Museo dei Tarocchi in Italy was able to complete the tarot designs. Martino Barbieri had finished arcana 1 to 16 in 2005 and Morena Poltronieri created the missing six based on his sketches and style. It seems that these drawings were originally intended to be realised as sculptures. They depict imaginative machines usually with a handle and various cranks, which supposedly turn various components of the device and these often have surreal symbols, sylised fish, birds, candles, locks, pictorial images on a roller, flowers and so on. One supposes that these represent various aspects of human life that can be accessed through cranking on the appropriate machine. The link to the traditional acana symbolism may on first glance seem a bit distant, but once one thinks more deeply and enters into the style and sculptural language of the piece the associations become obvious. The deck, limited to only 50 copies, comes in a hand decorated wooden box and includes a blown glass wand.