Tetsumi Kudo – Cultivation (1976)

Louisiana poster with detail from the work, Buddha in Paris. Meditation between Programmed Future and Recorded Memory, (1976), by Japanese artist, Tetsumi Kudo, (1935-1990). The poster is from Louisiana's exhibition of Kudo's works, Cultivation, in 2019. Kudo has been almost forgotten, but is now attracting international attention again with his confrontation with a world in ecological decay and a self-destructive humanity, morbidly obsessed with technology. A confrontation that speaks directly to our time.

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Kudo was a radical and visionary outsider. By combining found materials and modeled elements into distinctive sculptures, Kudo anticipates many of the aesthetic approaches seen in contemporary art right now. At the same time, he speaks directly and with great relevance to the cultural and political agendas of our time, regarding, for example, the environment and reproduction.

Kudo's work is clearly influenced by growing up in post-war Japan in the shadow of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But his approach to human self-destruction and ecological decay is both unsentimental and almost humorous in its absurd suggestions of how new life can sprout and develop in spite.

The exhibition poster features a detail from Tetsumi Kudo: Buddha in Paris. Meditation between Programmed Future and Recorded Memory, 1976

Private collection. © Tetsumi Kudo / Adagp, Paris 2020 / VISDA

Dimensions: W: 59.4 x H: 84.1 cm (A1)

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Frame: 12mm
Material: Frame in solid oak and with high-quality acrylic glass.