Giardino dei Tarocchi

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Giardino dei Tarocchi
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The Giardino dei Tarocchi (German: Garden of Tarot ) is an art park near Garavicchio in the municipality of Capalbio about 60 km south of Grosseto in Tuscany . It was designed by the French-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle (1930–2002) and realized from 1979, together with her husband Jean Tinguely , who was also an artist. The park, which is integrated into the Tuscan hilly landscape, has been open to the public since 1998 in the summer months.

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Niki De Saint Phalle was inspired by the Park Güell (1900-1914) by Antoni Gaudí in Barcelona , the Sacro Bosco (German. Holy Forest ), also Parco dei Mostri (German. Park of the Monsters ), from the 16th century Pirro Ligorio and Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola in Bomarzo as well as through the daring, colorful ceramic tile work by the Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser . With the realization of her fantasy garden, which took almost two decades (from 1978 to 1998), the sculptor and painter fulfilled a dream that she had had since the beginning of her artistic career. The twenty-two figures ( arcana ) of the Tarot were created in the park as large, colorful sculptures, some of which are up to fifteen meters high and are covered by colored ceramics, mirror mosaics and glass. Some of the sculptures are accessible inside. The implementation took place with the support of a group of local artists.

For her first figure in the park, the "ruler", she was inspired by one of her earlier monumental sculptures, a 27-meter-high female figure that can be entered through a vagina and was first seen in Stockholm in 1966. She lived in this figure during construction. De Saint Phalle saw her garden as a meditative garden that invites you to look at it and tells the story of a soul's journey as you wander through it. Each of the 22 sculptures represents a figure from the major arcana . The tour begins with the fool , the first card of the arcana, and ends with the same figure (dancing), the "world". De Saint Phalle about this figure: “The world is the map of the magnificent inner life. It is the final card of the Major Arcana and the game's spiritual practice. This card holds the secret of the WORLD. It is the answer to the Sphinx. "

The sculptures were made of concrete , with an internal structure made of iron grids of different densities, which were braided and welded by hand. The final shape was then applied with shotcrete .

A tuff stone wall surrounds the park. The architect Mario Botta designed the entrance in the form of a round arch.

According to the artist's wishes, the facility was converted into the private Fondazione Il Giardino dei Tarocchi , which is responsible for the operation and maintenance of the sculpture park. The foundation also manages its personal collection with over 1000 sculptures and 5000 graphic works.

De Saint Phalle on tarot: “Life is like a card game; we are born without knowing the rules, but each of us has to play with the hand we are dealt. "

See also

literature

sorted by year of publication

  • Stefan Tischer: The Tarot Garden by Niki de Saint Phalle . In: Die Gartenkunst 5 (2/1993), pp. 213–263.
  • Niki de Saint Phalle, Giulio Pietrocharchi: The Tarot Garden: The Tarot Garden , Benteli Zurich 1997, ISBN 978-3716510926
  • Niki de Saint Phalle: The Tarot Garden: Giardino Del Tarocchi , Edizioni Charta, Milano 1997, ISBN 978-8881581672
  • Carla Schulz Hoffman: Niki de Saint Phalle. Pictures-Figures-Fantastic Gardens , Prestel, Bonn 2008, ISBN 978-3791339832
  • Philip Carr-Gomm: Magical Places - From Stonehenge to the Way of St. James , National Geographic, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86690-116-2
  • Jill Johnston, Marella Caracciolo Chia, Giulio Pietromarchi: Niki de Saint Phalle and The Tarot Garden . Benteli, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3716515372

Web links

Commons : Giardino dei Tarocchi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Philip Carr-Gomm: Magical Places - From Stonehenge to the Way of St. James . National Geographic, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86690-116-2 , p. 75.

Coordinates: 42 ° 25 ′ 33.3 "  N , 11 ° 27 ′ 59"  E