In a wide-ranging practice spanning four decades, post-war Japanese artist Tetsumi Kudo (1935 –1990) explored the human experience, interrogating the proliferation of mass consumption and the rise of technology. His oeuvre addresses themes of colonialism, racism, social cohesion, and environmental degradation through biomorphic sculptures and assemblages incorporating found materials. Kudo’s first solo exhibition in Greater China, opening 31 May, features a selection of the artist’s signature cages made between 1966 and 1980. The worlds created inside these varied environments are intended to encourage viewers to understand themselves as part of an integrated and intricate cosmos in which nature, technology, and humanity influence each other, a system he dubbed the New Ecology.
Tetsumi Kudo
Paradise
1980
Cage, electronic circuit, plastic flower, plastic, metal coins, resin
78 x 36 x 20.3 cm / 30 3/4 x 14 1/8 x 8 in
© Hiroko Kudo, the Estate of Tetsumi Kudo / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY /
ADAGP Paris 2024
Courtesy Hiroko Kudo, the Estate of Tetsumi Kudo and Hauser & Wirth
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