Dear Friend of the Buckminster Fuller Institute,

We would like to invite you to join us Sunday October 8th for an intimate and rare performance of Spheres and Attraction (2005), a special piece created by the internationally-acclaimed composer Petr Kotik for voice, strings and percussion with texts by R. Buckminster Fuller performed by the S.E.M. Ensemble.

This work premieres in its revised form at The Noguchi Museum and marks the end of Best of Friends: Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi, an exhibition curated by BFI Board Member Shoji Sadao.

The performance is free with Museum admission and begins at 3.00pm. It will be followed at 4:00pm
by a reception. As part of the event, a 2:00 pm gallery talk is available in English and Japanese.

To RSVP please call us at 718 290 9283
We look forward to seeing you soon.

Sincerely,
- The Buckminster Fuller Institute

BEST OF FRIENDS: BUCKMINSTER FULLER AND ISAMU NOGUCHI, looks closely at the vital friendship and collaboration between Buckminster Fuller, an icon of modern creative and scientific thought, and Isamu Noguchi, one of the twentieth century's most acclaimed sculptors and designers.

The exhibition includes models, sculptures, drawings, photographs, and film footage, revealing the two men's ongoing discourse and shared ideas, as well as the context in which they worked. It provides a window onto the humanistic, utopian perspective that informed not only the work of Fuller and Noguchi, but much of the art and architecture of their era.

THE NOGUCHI MUSEUM is located on 33rd Road at Vernon Boulevard in Long Island City, Queens. 718.204.7088


www.noguchi.org