Tetsumi kudo books

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From ecological apocalypticism to new materialist posthumanism: the prescient sculpture of an influential Japanese Neo-Dadaist. Over a period of three decades, from the mids to the late s, the Japanese artist Tetsumi Kudo created a consistent body of work that significantly foreshadowed what is now known as posthumanism and new materialism.

His colored neon contaminations, limp penises, tattered flaps of skin and lone body parts wrapped in cocoons bring humanist self-assurance crashing to the ground. What appears as poison or chemical devastation is in fact an appeal to understand metamorphosis as a perpetual state of being. This sensibility is particularly evident in post-nuclear Japanese culture, where the destruction of the bombs permeates every facet of life and makes apparent the fragility of our organic bodies.

Tetsumi Kudo Retrospective Text by Mike Kelley, Antje Krause-Wahl, Reiko Tomii Walther König, Köln, pages 10 1⁄4 × 7 3⁄4 inches.

This catalog brings together contributions by artists and theorists and documents Kudo's oeuvre in plates and archival images, as well as exhibition views from his retrospective at the Fridericianum in Account Options Logga in. Skaffa tryckt exemplar. From ecological apocalypticism to new materialist posthumanism: the prescient sculpture of an influential Japanese Neo-Dadaist Over a period of three decades, from the mids to the late s, the Japanese artist Tetsumi Kudo created a consistent body of work that significantly foreshadowed what is now known as posthumanism and new materialism.

Susanne Pfeffer.