Space for creation,
expression and collaboration

Volta la carta (“Turn the Card”) is an interdisciplinary project by TRIO vis-à-vis that combines music, visual art, symbolism, and performance into a performative journey through museum spaces. Rather than following the format of a conventional concert, it creates an open model of experience in which the audience encounters art intuitively, associatively, and emotionally.

The project takes its starting point from the song Volta la carta by Fabrizio De André, which intertwines everyday scenes with symbolic and existential motifs. The principle of “turning the card” structures the entire evening: tarot cards determine the route through the museum, linking individual artworks with musical interventions by the ensemble.

The journey begins in the museum foyer with a performance of the song. A magician appears as a card reader, acting as a mediator between music, image, and audience. The cards that are drawn lead to new rooms, artworks, and musical situations. It deliberately remains unclear whether the path truly emerges by chance or forms part of a hidden dramaturgy. The tarot cards thus function both as instruments of meaning-making and as a play with illusion, projection, and deception.

Throughout the experience, archetypal symbols of the tarot are connected with selected artworks and musical improvisations. The music does not merely serve as accompaniment but becomes an independent space of interpretation, opening emotional and imaginative approaches to the artworks. Meanings arise situationally through the interplay of sound, image, symbol, and individual perception.

The project is realized by TRIO vis-à-vis in collaboration with a magician and is developed in cooperation with the Tarot Museum in Leinfelden-Echterdingen, which provides faithful reproductions of historical tarot cards. Each presentation is adapted to the specific exhibition setting.

Volta la carta conceives the museum as a performative space of experience situated between concert, exhibition, and ritual, in which perception, chance, symbolism, and interpretation are structured in a dynamic interplay.