Inspired by the Marseilles tarot, printed in the same city by François Chosson in 1735, Leo De Carlo turns the paper into an engraved glass work.
Using the different Murano techniques of decoration on glass, the artist offers the opportunity to show the symbology drawn in a on an evocative medium: this allows for details, shapes and colors to be added, in order to emphasize the meaning behind each Major Arcanum.
Born in Venice in 1972. He graduated in Industrial Design at the Milan Polytechnic.
After an experience in the field of goldsmith design, he arrives in Philippe Starck's studio. In Paris he is fascinated by design capable of expressing traditional craftsmanship in a contemporary key. Back in Italy he pursues these expressions by starting to collaborate with companies in which manual skill is a distinguishing element of production.
