Outrageous Fortune: Artists remake the Tarot 24 February-21 April 2012

The tarot is a pack of playing cards originating in Italy in the 15th Century. Used in most of Europe to play games, in the English-speaking world the tarot is generally associated with divination.

Seventy-eight artists, whose work encompasses a variety of formal, conceptual, expressionist, literary or design based approaches, have asked to create a card for a contemporary tarot pack. Each artist has been drawn a card from the classic Tarot de Marseilles deck, and been invited to interpret it concisely through the lens of their own practice.

Exhibition curated by Andrew Hunt.

Suzanna Treister, The Hermit, 2011

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