Takahiro Kudo
The work of Japanese artist Takahiro Kudo is strongly influenced by both his rigorous, standardized education and his background in the medical field—for two years he studied at the Orthopedic and Prosthesis department and held an internship at an Epithesis factory. His aim was to enhance his precision in general production, and to enable a project using artificial skin. Says the artist of his intentions, “We are birds inside cages. The cage is called a body. This cage I could specify as a brain and equipped sensor organs. Since one’s mental activity is generated by this living cage, one will never be able to abandon its restriction. I consider this restriction as the foundation of human activities. Having been so fascinated by this notion that refers to the structural aspect of “context,” the restriction-mechanism stands as a main principle in my production procedure. Thus my work studies and represents things based on the application of restrictions including all kinds of natural and artificial phenomena surrounding us.”
Kudo has exhibited his work in a number of venues including Archiraar Gallery, Brussels, SEAS Cultuurcentrum Knokke-Heist, studio310c, Melle, croxhapox, Ghent, De Garage, Mechelen, De Bond, Brugge, timelab, Gent, and S.M.A.K., Ghent, all in …
The work of Japanese artist Takahiro Kudo is strongly influenced by both his rigorous, standardized education and his background in the medical field—for two years he studied at the Orthopedic and Prosthesis department and held an internship at an Epithesis factory. His aim was to enhance his precision in general production, and to enable a project using artificial skin. Says the artist of his intentions, “We are birds inside cages. The cage is called a body. This cage I could specify as a brain and equipped sensor organs. Since one’s mental activity is generated by this living cage, one will never be able to abandon its restriction. I consider this restriction as the foundation of human activities. Having been so fascinated by this notion that refers to the structural aspect of “context,” the restriction-mechanism stands as a main principle in my production procedure. Thus my work studies and represents things based on the application of restrictions including all kinds of natural and artificial phenomena surrounding us.”
Kudo has exhibited his work in a number of venues including Archiraar Gallery, Brussels, SEAS Cultuurcentrum Knokke-Heist, studio310c, Melle, croxhapox, Ghent, De Garage, Mechelen, De Bond, Brugge, timelab, Gent, and S.M.A.K., Ghent, all in Belgium, and KAPO, Kanazawa, Japan and 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, in Japan. His works were prized at eervolle vermelding, Input/Output 2013, and nominated at Grote Prijs Ernst Albert 2014.
Courtesy of Archiraar Gallery
