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Kudo/Rama
Fergus McCaffrey, Tokyo
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Tetsumi Kudo, Carol Rama
Featuring a selection of twenty-five works spanning from 1962 to 2000, this exhibition explores the visionary insights offered in both artists’ practices; featuring prescient works that diagnose the most urgent interpersonal, societal, and ecological traumas of our time. Juxtaposed, the affinities between Kudo’s and Rama’s radical sensibilities and subversive approaches to material are apparent; both artists used a wide array of found objects in uncanny combinations to explore the bodily and psychological, proposing possibilities for a post-human aesthetic. The concerns that occupied both Kudo and Rama throughout their careers remain relevant as among the most urgent issues facing contemporary society- materialism, sexuality, violence, and the effects of consumerism- however, neither artist made overtly political or moralizing artwork, instead they presented inventive and personal interpretations of what it meant to be alive. For this reason, both Kudo and Rama have proven influential for many contemporary artists, gathering cult followings and drawing renewed interest in recent years. Both were eccentric and enigmatic artists who bridged the disparate artistic tendencies of the twentieth century, evading easy categorization by remaining staunchly committed to their individual visions. Though both were concerned with specific conditions of gender, sexuality, and ecology, their insights are universal, exploring the archetypal, the psychological, and the embodied.
Schedule | Jun 26 (Tue) 2018-Aug 4 (Sat) 2018 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Venue | Fergus McCaffrey, Tokyo http://fergusmccaffrey.com/exhibitions/  | ||||
| Location | 3-5-9 Kita-aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo 107-0061 | ||||
| Access | 3 minute walk from exit A3 at Omotesando Station on the Ginza, Hanzomon and Chiyoda lines. 11 minute walk from exit 5 at Meiji-jingumae Station on the Chiyoda and Fukutoshin lines. | ||||
| Phone | 03-6447-2660 | ||||
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