Papercut Haggadah at the Loyola Museum of Art

The Papercut Haggadah by Archie Granot
February 11 – May 9, 2010

The Haggadah tells the story of Passover, a day that commemorates the Israelites’ escape from Egypt. The holiday is celebrated with a special dinner called a Seder. Artists have also celebrated Passover—through illustrated manuscripts and drawings. Modern papercut artist Archie Granot continues a five-hundred year tradition with a fifty-five page Haggadah. Using geometric and abstract shapes instead of traditional Hebrew symbols, Granot has created a work that evokes the intense emotions attached to Seder. Each word of his text is handcut, and every page stands as both an independent work of art and a single piece of a beautiful, thematically unified whole.

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