Tori Kudo.
Hand-painted Test Pressing (3 Versions out of 25) Studio Village Hototoguiss 2007-2022.
Tori Kudo / Bruit Direct Disques.
Double Vinyl test pressing with Hand-painted covers by Archeion, completed in accordance with Tori Kudo’s instructions. Labels signed by Kudo.
Edition of 25.
"There was a time when I was black, or black and red, and there was a time when I was blue and brown. But then, at the school I was attending in London, I had a class on determining a person's color based on their personality. And I came to know that "mauve" was my color, representing my torn self. Speaking of mauve, there is Van Gogh's “Souvenir de Mauve” (Mr. Mauve's Memento), in which he painted an apricot tree in the garden. Similarly, my grandfather, Katsumi Usuda, known for his unusually thick paintings, left behind an oil painting of his familiar white apricot petals, scattered like droplets. So I misinterpreted my mauve as being closer to white than the original mauve, and ever since then I have dared to use this interpretation of mauve in my blog backgrounds and flyers. So much so that when I returned to Tokyo, I named my first CD “Souvenir de Mauve” .
For the exhibition at void and the sample LP cover, I focused on the act of painting, which consisted of applying the mauve I had mixed that day to my grandfather's unfinished canvas. I applied Maher's “blues du jour” format to a two-dimensional work. The title “mauve du jour,” voides the pre- and post-war history of the oil painting department, both figurative and abstract."
- Tori Kudo
