Representative work by Tetsumi Kudo
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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

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