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A Testimony of the Irrationality of Humanity
“Votre Portrait (Your Portrait)” - 1970-1979 — © Courtesy Hiroko Kudo, the Estate of Tetsumi Kudo and Hauser & Wirth © 2021 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
What adjective could better describe Tetsumi Kodo’s work than avant-garde?
From the mid-20th century onwards, his body of work, ranging from happenings to installations, poses the big questions with which humanity is and will be faced. He probes ecology, technological development, and the issues that humans must confront from both an ethical and moral perspective, through a unique form of representation.
Tetsumi Kudo was born in Osaka in 1935, to a family of painters.
After studying at the National School of Fine Arts in Tokyo, he staged his first happenings, navigated between performances and installations, and joined forces with the neo-Dada movement, then the New Realists when he moved to Paris in 1962.
He gained visibility in Europe when his work w