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Tetsumi Kudo: Cultivation

By (artist) Tetsumi Kudo, Edited by Tine Colstrup, Edited by Laerke Rydal Jorgensen, Text by Joshua Mack

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The eerily prescient work of a near-forgotten Japanese artist, whose 1960s and â€™70s sculptures anticipate contemporary ecological anxieties Contemplating Japanese artist Tetsumi Kudoâ€™s (1935-90) work in the 21st century provokes a sense of the uncanny on multiple levels: grotesquely beautiful on their own, his abject sculptures seem to foretell todayâ€™s environmental concerns with their depictions of ecological decay. Born in Osaka, Kudoâ€™s life was greatly impacted by the aftermath of the atomic bomb in 1945; this trauma compounded by the Vietnam Warâ€™s ever-present atmosphere of destruction led to a consistent focus on dystopia and decomposition in his work. Kudoâ€™s fluorescent birdcages and blacklight terrariums are furnished with an assortment of sculptures and found objects: melted plastic flowers, colorful phallic chrysalises and dismembered resin body parts come together to convey a distinctly modern anxiety in regard to our ailing world. Kudoâ€™s work does not intend to provide comfort in the midst of crisis; rather, his pieces urge viewers to reflect on how we may or may not continue to survive in a world that we ourselves have ruined through pollution and consumerism. As the artistâ€™s work reaches a peak of topicality, this volume presents a focused selection of Kudoâ€™s pieces from the 1960s and 1970s that demonstrate a postwar awareness of the atomic bombâ€™s effect on reproduction and the environment.

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