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Deck Review: La Corte Dei Tarocchi Created by Anna Maria D’Onofrio
Created by Akron/Giger
Published by AG Müller, Switzerland
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This deck is clearly one for a specific audience. I suspect many will find it both
disturbing and offensive. After studying the deck words that came to mind were trendy,
self-serving, opportunistic, and useless.
The deck consists of 22 over-sized cards supposedly representing Tarot’s Major
Arcana. The images are mostly monochromatic with a hint of brown here and there. The
Hanged Man has been changed to the Hanged Witch and Temperance is Alchemy. My impression
is that the images are a patchwork collection of Giger’s work they felt could be
passed off as legitimate representations of specific cards.
While the deck certainly fails at representing anything remotely akin to Tarot, it is very
successful at creating a depressing, oppressive atmosphere in which even suicide appears
to be a viable solution. The art is strewn with body parts, phalluses, machines having sex
with humans, misrepresentations of Voodoo icons, blasphemous depictions of Christian
icons, and it seems whatever else Giger could concoct to offend, disturb or annoy. While
the atmosphere of the deck creates is certainly melancholic, it doesn’t take long to
realize the work is predictable, trite, and ultimately, inconsequential.
 
 
 
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