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Titel saknas
Titel saknas
Titel saknas
Photo: Albin Dahlström/Moderna Museet

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Artist (Japan, 1935 - 1990)
Date1970
MediumPaper
DimensionsOmslag (bok stängd): 21,1 × 21 × 4,3 cm Omslag (bok öppen): 21,2 × 47,5 cm
Credit LineDonation 2005 from Pontus Hultén
Countries
On view
Stockholm
Object NumberMOM/2005/832
About the artworkThe Japanese, avant-garde artist Tetsumi Kudo is most often associated with sculptures and installations that are charged with political undertones. They often contain genitalia and mutilated body parts, but this untitled artist’s book seems to be different. The book contains texts in Japanese, French and English and is designed like a peephole book, with cut-out holes that get larger and larger page by page. A nose, two severed fingers holding a burning cigarette and another finger gradually emerge from the holes. The book is reminiscent of Kudo’s Portrait of the Artist in Crisis series, which featured male faces moulded in plastic, often smoking and trapped in meaningless, dull pursuits.
Signatures, inscriptions and marks Signerad och daterad på femte bladet i boken: "Tetsumi KUDO / 7.12. 1976. Paris"., Påskrift på femte bladet i boken: "For Mr. Pontus Hultén". Selected exhibition history Den underjordiska himlen. Surrealism i Moderna Museets samling (den 26 oktober 2024 - den 27 januari 2027) Moderna Museet, Stockholm