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Item: Les faux-tarots des franc-plombiers

1994

Installation, variable dimensions.
Materials: paint, canvas

Collection: Collection of the Institut d'Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France.

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]

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Jimmie Durham
Jimmie Durham was born in 1940 in (or, as he himself says, ‘under’) the state of Arkansas in the US, into a Cherokee family. After working di

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