Curator Talk: Doryun Chong on Tetsumi Kudo
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Curator Talk: Doryun Chong on Tetsumi Kudo

Portrait of Tetsumi Kudo with his work Philosophy of Impotence in 1962
Portrait of Tetsumi Kudo with his work Philosophy of Impotence in 1962

Japanese artist Tetsumi Kudo came of age in the 1950s as Japan was dealing with the trauma of postwar military occupation and the postatomic age. Join exhibition curator Doryun Chong for a discussion on Kudo’s ideas about a “new ecology” that critiqued the West’s dualistic way of pitting humanity against nature and technology.