Tarot Garden: Tuscany, Italy
A lot is happening at the Tarot Garden in Tuscany if we’re talking about aesthetics. But you shouldn’t expect anything less than exquisite disarray from the mind behind this project, French artist Niki de Saint Phalle.
Over two decades, the painter/sculptor recruited dozens of artists to help her fill out the phantasmagorical sculpture garden, which she finally opened to the public in 1998 and now welcomes over 100,000 visitors each year.
The property includes more than 20 sculptures and, according to de Saint Phalle herself, was designed to be “a small Eden where man and nature meet.” The Tarot Garden is an open-air art exhibition based on the 22 representations on the tarot cards.
The sculptures in this bizarre garden are larger than life, and they are even interactive. You can climb on them, go inside, and walk around them. They’re actually so large that one of them became the artist’s home while she brought her vision to life.
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