Andrea Rosen Gallery
525 W 24th St
212.627.6000
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Tetsumi Kudo, L'Ame d'Artiste d'Avant-Garde, Photo: Christopher Burke, Courtesy Hiroko Kudo and Andrea Rosen Gallery, © ADAGP, Paris & ARS, New York
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June 20, 2008 – Aug 15, 2008
Tuesdays–Saturdays (10am–6pm)
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The first US gallery exhibition of Tetsumi Kudo's bright but morbid sculptures introduces American audiences to one of contemporary art's lesser-known forerunners. Working in Japan through the '50s and in Paris after 1963, Kudo invested his early knotted-string works with biomorphic qualities that nod to Eva Hesse. Later in his career, in L'Ame d'Artiste d'Avant-Garde, colorful wires snaked around a human skull in a pointed attack on Western humanism and the avant-garde's misplaced priorities. The exhibition divides 24 pieces into three biographical and thematic categories, spanning 1965-1988. In 1990, the artist passed away from cancer, but his legacy still reverberates in the work of Paul McCarthy, David Altmejd, and Jake and Dinos Chapman.
