Join Il Circolo at the Warburg Institute for a guided tour of the exhibition: “Tarot: Origins and Afterlives” led by Martina Mazzotta. Martina is curator of the exhibition together with Bill Sherman, Director of The Warburg Institute and Jonathan Allen, Associate Fellow of the Warburg Institute.
The exhibition, Tarot – Origins & Afterlives, will present a sequence of critical moments from Tarot’s long history, exploring the cards’ iconographic origins in the Renaissance Italy and the profound transformations they have undergone in the hands of artists, mystics and writers.
Tarot cards are everywhere; but where do they come from, and what is at stake in the different forms they have taken? As tools to explore the unconscious, sources of artistic inspiration and emblems of counterculture, tarot decks have served as some of our most powerful shapers of fortune, creativity and even identity.
Martina Mazzotta is an art historian, writer, journalist, independent exhibition curator, and noted academic. Associate Fellow at the Warburg Institute, UCL (University of London). Director of Archive Fondazione Mazzotta. Editorialist for Il Sole 24 Ore.
