# Octetra

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{{Short description|Sculpture by Isamu Noguchi}}
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'''''Octetra''''' is a concrete sculpture by [Isamu Noguchi](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Takamatsu%2C_Kagawa) 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](/source/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](/source/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>

==References==
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