Thought Lottery is a visual and conceptual exploration of tarot as both an ancient system of divination and a continuously evolving cultural artifact. This exhibition presents a constellation of large-format silk-screened tarot graphics on canvas and found posters, juxtaposed with found images—including an ancient wooden Odin icon and graphic waveforms—alongside painted paperworks that reinterpret tarot’s iconography. The recurring figure of the wanderer, a central archetype in his work, gx6uides viewers through interwoven narratives of fate, movement, and mysticism.
The “Fool”, which marks the beginning of the Wanderer symbolism within the tarot cards, stands for departure, new beginnings as well as an open reflection on past and a future, that still lies ahead and isn’t definded yet. In the case of „Thought Lottery“, this applies as much to the question of pictorial expression as to larger social issues. Which interpretation opens and which closes one’s own thinking and perception and what turn does an event or painting take, once a greater meaning is ascribed to it?
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Eilert Asmervik — main-instrumental in forging new links in the Chain of Image and Counter-Image! Aligner of pigmental symphonies chiming through carriers as spontaneous harmonics — correspondences of ratio-polyphony across spectrums and wavelengths, auto-tuned to pictorial logos! Image-Sound, Sound-Image, Bild und Aber-Bild!
Eilert Asmervik is a versatile Norwegian artist mainly disciplined in painting and sound creation. He received his diploma in painting from the Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien in 2024, studying under Daniel Richter, with exchanges at Beaux Arts de Paris and Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Asmervik lives and works nomadically, with bases in Paris, FR, Graz, AT and Lunigiana, IT.
He ist he founder of InterStar Verlag and as co-founder of Cabanon Paris, he co-organizes pop-up exhibitions with Anaïs Horn since 2023.
His works have been exhibited internationally, including presentations at Forum Stadtpark; Graz; Tutu Gallery; NYC, b10b, Düsseldorf, Printed
