ReTooled: Highlights from the Hechinger Collection
ReTooled celebrates the use of tools in our everyday lives with art that magically transforms utilitarian objects into works of beauty, insight, and wit. This exhibition from the Hechinger Collection breathes life into the unexpected subject of tools, and includes work from Arman, Anthony Caro, Richard Estes, Howard Finster, Red Grooms, Jacob Lawrence, Fernand L茅ger, Roger Shimomura, and H.C. Westermann; photographers Berenice Abbott, William Eggleston and Walker Evans; and pop artists Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg, and James Rosenquist.
Some of these artists accentuate the purity of design in tools. Others transform and distort tools to highlight their tragic uselessness in a technological age. Some of the pieces carry a tone of humor and irony, while others remind us of how the infrastructure of civilization rests on the shoulders of tool-wielding hands. But all of the works remind us that tools embody the can-do spirit that defines America and the quest to improve our quality of life.
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ReTooled celebrates the use of tools in our everyday lives with art that magically transforms utilitarian objects into works of beauty, insight, and wit. This exhibition from the Hechinger Collection breathes life into the unexpected subject of tools, and includes work from Arman, Anthony Caro, Richard Estes, Howard Finster, Red Grooms, Jacob Lawrence, Fernand L茅ger, Roger Shimomura, and H.C. Westermann; photographers Berenice Abbott, William Eggleston and Walker Evans; and pop artists Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg, and James Rosenquist.
Some of these artists accentuate the purity of design in tools. Others transform and distort tools to highlight their tragic uselessness in a technological age. Some of the pieces carry a tone of humor and irony, while others remind us of how the infrastructure of civilization rests on the shoulders of tool-wielding hands. But all of the works remind us that tools embody the can-do spirit that defines America and the quest to improve our quality of life.
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