Michael’s Tarot - Michael Kutzer - Limited Edition Prints - 2007 - Esoteric Art

Description

22 original hand etched and colored esoteric artworks loosely based on tarot archetypes, printed on archival cotton rag paper. Second printing of 17 sets of prints. Each print is signed and numbered by the artist.
Condition: new, unused.
From the artist: “The result of my studies was “Michael’s Tarot” as a try to connect tarot with my Christian faith and not named after me, but the card of Justice showing the archangel Michael weighting the souls.
The cards of this tarot deck are composed like altar pieces: a great main painting and underneath a smaller painting called “predella” or “coffin”, as this was the place, where initially were kept the relics. This form is corresponding to my goal to connect the message of tarot with Christian faith. The predella always contains biblical scenes or is illustrating a legend of the saints, accompanied by symbols on both sides. Also the pattern of the frame is related to the message of the card. On the top of each card you find a fitting epigraph mostly taken from a Renaissance emblem book. You may imagine that alone puzzling the right things together was a huge work. The plates were made in etching and aquatint and the prints later handcolored. This work took up two years even if the edition was limited to 12 and then 17 exemplars.The famous bookbindery Frölich made the very noble suede cassettes.”
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