{{Short description|Sculpture by Isamu Noguchi}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2022}} {{Infobox artwork | title = Octetra | image = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | painting_alignment = | other_language_1 = | other_title_1 = | other_language_2 = | other_title_2 = | artist = Isamu Noguchi | year = 1968 <!-- If after 1583 CE, use {{start date|YYYY}} --> | completion_date = <!-- For a more specific date (post-1583): {{start date|YYYY|MM|DD|df=y}} --> | catalogue = | material = concrete | subject = | height_metric = <!-- (i.e. in metric units) --> | width_metric = | length_metric = | height_imperial = 113 ½ | width_imperial =128 | length_imperial =113 | diameter_metric = | diameter_imperial = | metric_unit = cm <!-- Note: this parameter must either use the value given or not be included --> | imperial_unit = in <!-- Note: this parameter must either use the value given or not be included --> | dimensions = | dimensions_ref = | condition = | owner = | accession = | museum = | city = }}
'''''Octetra''''' is a concrete sculpture by Isamu Noguchi, from 1968.
==Description== It is an abstract painted concrete sculpture.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.moderndesigninterior.com/2012/03/isamu-noguchi-octetra.html|title=Isamu Noguchi Octetra|website=www.moderndesigninterior.com|access-date=2 April 2023}}</ref> It was designed to be a play structure.<ref>{{cite book|title=Isamu Noguchi: A Study of Space|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FbfqAAAAMAAJ|year=2000 |publisher=Monacelli Press|isbn=978-1-58093-047-5}}</ref>
==History== It was first exhibited near Spoleto Cathedral<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://kunstaspekte.art/index.php?tid=9432&action=termin|title=Highlights|website=kunstaspekte.de|accessdate=2 April 2023}}</ref><ref name="Ashton1993">{{cite book|author=Dore Ashton|title=Noguchi East and West|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aKI5kEdRQsEC&pg=PA301|year=1993|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-08340-0|pages=301–}}</ref>
There are examples at Robert T. Webb Sculpture Garden,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.creativeartsguild.org/visual-arts/exhibits/robert-t.-webb-sculpture-garden|title=Robert T. Webb Sculpture Garden|last=Designs|first=DaiDreamer|website=www.creativeartsguild.org|access-date=2016-06-08}}</ref> Takamatsu Japan,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.moderndesign.org/2012/03/isamu-noguchi-octetra.html|title=Isamu Noguchi Octetra {{!}} modern design by moderndesign.org|website=www.moderndesign.org|access-date=2016-06-08}}</ref> Moerenuma Park.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.enelpaisdelashadas.com/lugares-de-juego-isamu-noguchi/|title=Lugares de juego: Isamu Noguchi|date=2010-07-23|website=En el país de las hadas - las cosas de Lola y su mamá|language=en-US|access-date=2016-06-08}}</ref>
It was shown at the Pace Gallery.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://newyorkarttours.tumblr.com/post/113596666464/isamu-noguchi-at-pace-gallery|title=Isamu Noguchi at Pace Gallery|website=New York Art Tours|access-date=2016-06-08}}</ref>
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