Buckminster Fuller. Rediscovering Buckminster Fuller
01.09.2010 - 09.10.2010
Ivorypress Art+Books C/ Comandante Zorita, 48 Madrid, Spain
Buckminster Fuller, a philosopher, engineer and architect, was a visionary and a pioneer of the environmental movement, long before such concepts as sustainability. In the twenties, Fuller was already designing the first self-sustaining buildings and inventing cars shaped like tear drops which could carry a dozen people and consume only three litres of gasoline. His philosophy could be summed up as 'do more with less'.
The works comprising the exhibition include originals- drawings, photographs, objects, sculptures, projects -two documentaries produced by Ivorypress for this exhibition, as well as a reproduction to scale of his famous Dymaxion Car, built especially for this exhibition at Ivorypress Art + Books. This exhibition has been put together with the collaboration of The Estate of Buckminster Fuller and public institutions such as Stanford University, Southern Illinois University and the Art Institute of Chicago; as well as private collections. The exhibition is curated by the architect Norman Foster ? with whom Fuller collaborated and had a close relationship in the final years of his career ? and Luis Fernandez-Galiano, architect and professor at Universidad Politecnica de Madrid.
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September 2010
