Artist
Tetsumi Kudo
1935–1990 · Japanese
Tetsumi Kudo created unsettling environments from cages, artificial plants, body fragments, electronics and fluorescent color. After moving to Paris in 1962, he developed a dystopian ecology shaped by nuclear anxiety, pollution and technological mutation.
Sculpture; installation; performance
Major Works
- 1962Philosophy of Impotence →
- 1967Cultivation by Radioactivity →
- 1960sYour Portrait →
- 1968Garden of Metamorphosis in the Space Capsule →
- 1970sPollution-Cultivation-New Ecology →
- 1960sCage Works →
- 1960s–70sArtificial Flower Environments →
- 1970sHuman Bonsai →
- 1960sElectronics and Body Works →
- 1970sPortrait of Your Future →
Interviews & Writing
- Museum-quality video search →RESEARCH QUEUEvideo
