Tetsumi Kudo's Disturbing Hybrids at Hauser & Wirth London

Tetsumi Kudo's exhibition at Hauser & Wirth London (September 22 – November 21, 2016) presented works that merge organic and artificial elements, creating a sense of repulsive strangeness. In 'Your Portrait' (1966), an eyeball emerges from cotton fiber. Elsewhere, fragments of artificial human bodies—a hand and an ear—are connected, reflecting Kudo's critique of post-war consumerism and nuclear anxiety. The show highlighted his unique blend of Surrealism and Pop, using everyday materials to explore the degradation of the human body in a technological age.