The Cutting Edge: Tools as Art from the Hechinger Collection
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The Cutting Edge celebrates those tools of trade bearing a blade. Exemplifying great creativity and imagination, this family-friendly exhibition explores the range in cutting tools from saws and scissors to knives, hatches and axes. Well-recognized artists like Berenice Abbott, Howard Finster, Jim Dine and Jean Tinguely demonstrate that even sharp and piercing tools can be magically transformed into fanciful works of beauty, surprise and wit.
With the potential to build and destroy, the ubiquitous blade has been a means to gauge the progress of civilizations since the beginning of history. The Cutting Edge explores an array of blade forms that have tantalized the artistic imagination. The 50 paintings, photographs, prints, sculptures, and folk art featured in this exhibition dates from the late 19th century to the present.
Specifications:
| Number of Works: | approximately 50 paintings, sculptures, prints and photographs |
| Curator: | Sarah Tanguy |
| Organized by: | IA&A |
| Approximate size: | 220 running feet |
| Security: | Moderate security |
| Fee: | $10,500 |
| Shipping: | Exhibitors pay outgoing costs within the contiguous US |
| Booking Time: | 12 weeks |
| Tour: | March 2010 - December 2011 |
| Publication: | Companion book |
| Availability: | March 2010 - December 2011 |
| Contact: | Nicole Forrest |
Tour Schedule:
Summary | Specifications | Tour Schedule | Images | Installations | Press
