HettienneGrobler: Museo dei Tarocchi, Riola, Bologna

Sunday, June 25, 2017

Museo dei Tarocchi, Riola, Bologna

The Mysteries of Mary tarot deck is now on display in the

Museo dei Tarocchi in Riola, Bologna in Italy!

The International Tarot Museum was founded by

Morena Poltronieri and Ernesto Fazioli

The first and only of its kind in the world!

image from http://arnellart.com/museodeitarocchi/brochure.htm

Mutus Liber

www.mutusliber.it

'The Handbooks of Museo dei Tarocchi

The Tarot Decks of Museo dei Tarocchi - Limited Edition

They are editions directly cared by the Museum of Tarots and chosen between artists’ works from all around the world to leave a trace in the contemporary history of tarots.

These handbooks are editions with precious characteristic, in which are producted the Arcana in a small series from 30 to 1000 samples.'

- quote taken from Museo dei Tarocchi website

image from http://arnellart.com/museodeitarocchi/brochure.htm

The Museum's goals are:

Creation of a database of all artists whose works are displayed in the museum, together with their CV (Bio) as well as insightful notes shared by the artists themselves to better illustrate their works.

Research focused on old and ancient Tarot to help promote the preservation of that which throughout the centuries gave life and meaning to this creative means of expression.

Creation of a vast database to record a census of the most important and influential decks in the world.

Workshops and conferences with various guest artists and speakers.

Organization and promotion of special events and exhibitions.

Creation of a virtual tour website of the Museum.

Creation of a lending library of books, and of rare and unusual texts.

Arnell Ando has many links to the tarot museum and the

tarot tours that she leads to Italy on her website

Arnell's Art

and here is the link to the Museo dei Tarocchi information page

The Sea Journey
Mysteries of Mary Tarot Deck
www.hergracesacredart.com

Here is the link to the review that Arnell Ando, author, editor

and creator of more than one tarot deck, gave the

Mysteries of Mary tarot deck.

http://www.arnellart.com/mary-tarot.htm

I am deeply honoured that the deck has been included in this valuable

resource and I will be visiting the museum and meeting

Morena in person in August.

I will keep you updated with pictures of my visit to Bologna

and the Museo dei Tarocchi

blessings

Hettienne

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Pilgrim to sacred places

Pilgrimage and sacred ritual is my foremost spiritual practise. Raised Dutch Reformed Protestant, the rich lustre of sacred and holy places offered a well of inspiration for my parched soul. My travels have taken me to many different religions, cultures and traditions. You will see on the internet that I have written on many aspects of the spiritual journey. Until I came into contact with the mystical side of Christianity. My first ritual I attended was the festival of Archangel Michael in Mont Sant'Angelo in Italy, then visiting Padre Pio. Then followed walking the pilgrimage of Bridgid, the sacred well and labyrinth in Kildare, Ireland. And that is when my art appeared in the form of paintings. Ritual grounded in the knowing of the unconscious, awakens us from the dream of habitual seeing and thinking. The conscious mind lacks the ability or maybe the neural pathway to communicate the new-found wisdom intellectually, and thus the expression through art steps in. Well, that is only my experience and understanding, of course. But I had not been an artist till I participated in sacred ritual.

My stay at Lourdes and participating in the rituals daily, turned me into a full time artist.

When one participates in a ritual (probably any ritual, but when you regard it as sacred, you add a certain 'light' to it) you are transported into a different time and space : colors are different; the light is different; everything has meaning and the ordinary become extra-ordinary. My art novena for Lourdes in particular, highlights my statement that our lives are the altar to the Divine and I strive to capture that numinosity of the sacred ritual in my photographs and altars. I only started creating sacred altars on my return from Lourdes. These small shadowboxes are vignettes, a moment in time in the life of ordinary human beings, lifted out of the mundane into the numinous, merely by seeing life as sacred.

The Mysteries of Mary Tarot

The Sacred Mysteries of Mary, the myth and the metaphor of the Madonna as a wisdom path, as reflected in the archetypal Book of Tarot. 78 Hand crafted shrines to be published as a deck of cards. Walking the four paths of Beauty, Compassion, Truth and Wisdom. Each card is an individual shrine dedicated to an archetype, an initiation, a Mystery in the Great Mystery and a vignette of one of the stories woven into this tapestry of Mary. When you read them together, one after the other, laid out in a sacred dance of meaning and insight, they become a garland of roses, a rosary of cards, creating a sacred Rose Garden.

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Sunday, June 25, 2017

Museo dei Tarocchi, Riola, Bologna

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