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Tetsumi Kudo 工藤哲巳
Graft '72 接木 七二
1972
Graft ’72 (Greffe ’72) is a distinctive example of Tetsumi Kudo’s fascination with natural and artificial worlds. In this piece, he introduces a bizarre ecosystem in which organic entities and found objects coexist. A detached phallus and a disembodied hand sprout alongside a tangle of wires and a thermometer, with artificial flowers and human hair carefully planted on the top. The blue bucket contains soil and vacuum tubes. Kudo witnessed the rapid transformation of Japanese society in the 1950s from post-war devastation to economic prosperity and technological sophistication. His dismembered body parts, alien plants, and industrial waste seem to warn of the threat that hyper-industrialisation poses to nature and humanity.
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