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M+, Hong Kong. Gift of Joan & Annie in memory of Professor Eric Lye, 2019, © I Ketut Tagen
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East Galleries, 214
I Ketut Tagen 伊．革圖．塔根
Untitled 無題
1979
This is Balinese painter I Ketut Tagen’s depiction of a geodesic dome as a woven bamboo structure in a tropical forest. The dome was championed by the futurist R. Buckminster Fuller as a means of achieving maximum volume using the fewest elements. Tagen witnessed the building of a bamboo dome in Bali during the Campuan World Meetings, organised by Malaysian architect Lim Chong Keat and the visiting Fuller. With participants from around the world, the meetings provided a space for multidisciplinary thinking and exchange. The painting documents how Fuller’s geometric concepts can resonate globally and can be continually reframed by local contexts and materials.
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