Tetsumi
Kudo
Tetsumi
Kudo
Kudo
Japanese, 1935 — 1990
The fruit of the Post-War's tormented context, Japanese artist Tetsumi Kudo's oeuvre is founded on the trauma of the nuclear catastrophe. Yet the dismembered, hybrid human bodies he constantly represents are more ironic than macabre. Associated with technology and pollution, they form the expression of a new synthesis of the living that the artist terms as a “new ecology”.
Trained in Japan in the 1950s and based in Paris from 1962 onwards, Tetsumi Kudo frequented in equal proportion the Neo Dada groups of Tokyo and the New Realists in France. The result is a singular body of installations and performances in which the artist strives to assert his independence from the European cultural influence, bitterly criticizing the excesses and contradictions of contemporary society.
Several of his strangely disturbing works, including Votre Portrait and Portrait of an Artist in Crisis, are held in the Pinault Collection and were presented in the exhibition À Triple tour. Collection Pinault (“triple locked”) at the Paris Conciergerie in 2013 and at Punta della Dogana in Venice in 2015.
Trained in Japan in the 1950s and based in Paris from 1962 onwards, Tetsumi Kudo frequented in equal proportion the Neo Dada groups of Tokyo and the New Realists in France. The result is a singular body of installations and performances in which the artist strives to assert his independence from the European cultural influence, bitterly criticizing the excesses and contradictions of contemporary society.
Several of his strangely disturbing works, including Votre Portrait and Portrait of an Artist in Crisis, are held in the Pinault Collection and were presented in the exhibition À Triple tour. Collection Pinault (“triple locked”) at the Paris Conciergerie in 2013 and at Punta della Dogana in Venice in 2015.
