Jimmie Durham
(c)image: Philippe De Gobert
Les faux-tarots des franc-plombiers, 1994
Installation
, variable dimensions
paint, canvas
On-going project, started in 1994 at the exhibition Architexture in Antwerp. The framed watercolour drawings are presented in the form of crosses.
“Italo Calvino, if he had been in Marseille with Sandra Cattini and I after the crusades had ended, could have explained that the “Faut Tarot” of the Franc-Plombiers were actually older and more authentic in spirit than other inspirational, historical, or fortune-telling devices, because one may use them for architectural instruction”. [full text by Jimmie Durham bellow]
