Outrageous Fortune : Artists remake the Tarot

24 Feb-21 Apr 2012

Overview

The Tarot is a pack of playing cards originating in Italy in the late 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 been asked to create a card for a contemporary tarot pack. Each artist has drawn a card from the classic Tarot de Marseilles deck, and has been invited to interpret it concisely through the lens of their own practice. Slimvolume Poster Publication was initiated by Andrew Hunt in 2001 as a way for artists to develop their work within a strict format of a print edition and publication. A Hayward touring/Focal Point Gallery exhibition from the Southbank Centre, London.