Screening

Tetsumi Kudo

Wednesday, September 20, 2017
8 PM

Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf, Birkenstraße 47

Monuments of Metamorphosis, 1969, 27 min., Director: Tetsumi Kudo and Yasuhiro Yoshioka
Tetsumi Kudo reflects from a distance of the unsentimental observer on the ideological boundaries between human beings, nature and technology. Kudo proclaims a necessary transformation of the human being, which enabled a rethinking of traditional categories.

Your Portrait, 1967, 21 min., Director: Erik van Zuylen, with Tetsumi Kudo, Marjon de Bree et al.
A short movie following Tetsumi Kudos work Your Portrait about the potential destructive consequences of the creating of a portrait.

The event accompanies the exhibition Asymmetrische Architexturen – Lektüren zur Nachkriegsgeschichte des Kunstvereins, on view at Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf through October 8, 2017.