Tetsumi Kudo

“ ..Known for boldly incisive and provocative works and happenings that dealt with issues such as sex, pollution, atomic power, and genetics, Kudo’s practice has recently prompted renewed interest internationally... ”

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National Museum of Art, Osaka (Kokuritsu Kokusai Bijutsukan)

“ ..Kudo referred to these as trou noir and also suggested that several reflected the balance of centrifugal and centripetal forces which he believed unified Japan, not in social terms, but in a pantheistic... ”

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Andrea Rosen Gallery

“ ..In the late 1970s during a period of ill health, Kudo began including lengths of colored string and reams of magnetic tape in his works to suggest the energy of thoughts, memory, and life moving within... ”

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Andrea Rosen Gallery

“ ..Deeply concerned with the fate of humanity in the wake of nuclear attacks on his native land and the dawn of the global arms race, Kudo sought to develop a universal humanist language of creativity and... ”

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Walker Art Center

“ ..A key figure of Tokyo’s Anti-Art Movement in the late 1950s, Kudo’s performative paintings and installations marked the beginning of his preoccupation with the impact of nuclear catastrophe and the excess... ”

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Hauser & Wirth, Zurich