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On view now at Asheville Art Museum: 'Altruistic Genius: Buckminster Fuller's Plans to Save the Planet' |
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R. Buckminster Fuller, Building Construction/Geodesic Dome from the Inventions: Twelve Around One portfolio, 1981, screenprint on clear polyester film overlaid on duotone screenprint on Lennox cotton rag paper, 30 × 40 inches. Asheville Art Museum, Black Mountain College Collection, museum purchase with funds provided by Ladene & Russell Newton. © Estate of Buckminster Fuller. Image Tim Burleson.
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ASHEVILLE, NC.- Altruistic Genius: Buckminster Fullers Plans to Save the Planet brings the inventions and designs of R. Buckminster Fuller to Western North Carolina and introduces visitors to Fullers strategies for the sustainability of humans and the planet relating to housing, transportation, mathematics, and engineering.
This exhibition features two major suites of prints by Buckminster Fuller among other remarkable works from his multi-decade career and is presented in three sections: Inventions; Synergetics; and Black Mountain College and Lasting Influence. The Inventions portfolio, assembled in 1981 from Fullers career of explorations along with several existent models, represents Fullers foresight. In the late 1970s, Fuller published a series of mathematical systems and philosophies to be used in solving problems in all areas of human existence in his Synergetics portfolio.
Significant to Asheville, Fuller taught at Black Mountain College during the summers of 1948 and 1949. It was there that he importantly constructed his first geodesic dome as he experimented to develop more affordable housing. More than 30 major artworks by Buckminster Fuller join select examples by artists and designers directly impacted by Fullers innovations in art and design, including Jade Doskow, Kenneth Snelson, and Kirsten Stolle, among others.
The University of North Carolina Ashevilles STEAM Studio brings to life the designs of Fullers Flys Eye Dome and Geodesic Dometwo designs that transformed the history of modern architecturethrough student-produced models on view in the exhibition. Welcoming visitors to the Museum, a replica of Fullers Dymaxion Car, on loan from the Lane Motor Museum in Nashville, will be on view in the Museums Atrium for the duration of the exhibition.
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On view now at Asheville Art Museum: 'Altruistic Genius: Buckminster Fuller's Plans to Save the Planet'
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