Alejandro Jodorowsky completes two‑volume monograph Art Sin Fin

Alejandro Jodorowsky, the 96-year-old multi‑disciplinary artist, has finished a two‑volume monograph titled Art Sin Fin, a retrospective that he says serves as an archive and “a bulging bestiary of counter‑cultural weirdness.” The book traces Jodorowsky’s career from his brief 1970s reign as the “king of the midnight movie” — including El Topo and The Holy Mountain — through riotous stage shows, comic‑book panels and unrealised designs such as his long‑cherished adaptation of Dune.

Jodorowsky chose the images alongside the book’s editor, Donatien Grau of the Musée du Louvre, while the accompanying prose retains his idiosyncratic metaphors and panache. His life and work, the book and interview make clear, are bound up with practices he calls psychomagic and with tarot.

He produced a Marseille tarot deck with designer Philippe Camoin, calling it an “alphabet of the soul” and “a system for self‑discovery and psychological healing.” Jodorowsky has long run psychomagic sessions in Paris and now mostly counsels patients via Zoom; he told the interview that “there are 8 million people who are waiting for my help.” The monograph also touches on personal tragedy: his son Teo died of an overdose at 24, a loss that informed his turn to tarot‑based psychotherapy.

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Culture, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Art Sin Fin, El Topo, Marseille Tarot, Philippe Camoin