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ALT Conceived in two parts, this double-gallery exhibition explores the origins of Tarot in Renaissance Italy and its ongoing relevance as a source of inspiration for artists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The first part of the exhibition, Renaissance Symbols, focuses on the origins of the three earliest surviving decks from the fifteenth century, which were commissioned by the

ALT that imagery became the basis for later divination practices. Modern Visions, the second part of the exhibition, takes as its starting point the legendary 1909 Rider-Waite-Smith deck conceived by mystic Arthur Edward Waite and illustrated by artist Pamela Colman Smith, tracing the influence of this deck and others on later practitioners and the imagery's adoption by people like André Breton, Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo, Jess, Niki de Saint Phalle, Betye Saar, and Kerstin Brätsch. For these artists, Tarot offered an alternative to the strictures of modernist aesthetics, allowing them to explore other universes and imaginative possibilities.