Selma
Daffre
David
Ellingsen
Heike and Helmuth
Hahn
Liane Hentscher
James Kudo
Kwang Lee
Petra Naumann
Stefani Peter
Milan
Rradovanovic
Marianne Stuve
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James
Kudo
James Kudo was born
in Pereira Barreto, Sao Paulo, Brazil in 1967. Major art institutes in
Brazil, Germany, Japan and in the United States have shown his work in
solo and group exhibitions. For example: Brazilian American Cultural Institute
(Washington, USA, 2002); Gunter Baunsberg Gallery (Nuremberg, Germany,
2002); Latin American Gallery, Promo Art (Tokyo, Japan, 2001); Miura Museum
of Art (Matsuyama, Japan, 2000); Sao Paulo Museum of Art (Sao Paulo, Brazil
1998); Museum of Contemporary Art (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1995);
Galeria Tiergarten (Berlin, Germany, 1995).
The Surveyor
of Horizons
by Maria Alice Milliet
James Kudo had his first individual show when he was 34, at the Dan Gallery.
What happens in his paintings? To answer this question one must look at
his work attentively. In his pictures, different kinds of events take
place. I would say that there is a praxis and an evocation in them.
The praxis is a consequence of his personal history, which begins in São
Paulo, where he lived until he was a teenager. The horizon was wide, and
very little information crossed the immense cultivated space. There was
a nun school where painting lessons were taught, and in those lessons
students had to choose prints to copy. Most of Kudo’s classmates
picked landscapes or still natures, but this descendant of Japanese immigrants
chose the Gioconda. Not being aware of the challenge, he did his best.
When his parents saw the resulting painting, they thought they had a genius
at home. Later, they realized that this gift was not enough for their
boy: he craved for obstacles to overcome.
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