Nils-Udo
Nils -Udo (* 1937 in Lauf an der Pegnitz, Middle Franconia ), is a German visual artist known especially for his contributions to Land Art.
- 2.1 works in public space (selection)
Life
Nils -Udo lived from 1950 to 1960 in Fürth. After extensive travels, he moved in 1960 to Paris. Began his artistic career as a painter Nils- Udo, where he already plants and natural materials incorporated in Paris in his pictures.
After almost ten years as a freelance painter Nils -Udo 1970 moved to Upper Bavaria. In 1972, he turned away from the painting and began to work with nature. First earthworks and planting with trees and shrubs originated in meadows, which he leased from farmers.
Later he realized landscape interventions, among others in France, Austria, Italy, Yugoslavia, Japan, India, Mexico, Israel, Namibia, Reunión and Lanzarote. His works, which are often only short-lived, Nils -Udo documented photographically. Since 1980, he also realized permanent major projects for the urban space. Since 1989 also re-emerge paintings.
Nils -Udo lives and works in Riedering (Chiemgau).
Awards (selection)
Solo exhibitions (selection )
Nils -Udo had, since 1984, inter alia, Solo exhibitions in France, Austria, Poland, Belgium, Italy, Canada and repeated in Japan. The marked with "K" shows a catalog was published.
- 2011 Nils -Udo Nature. L' dresse - Musée de La Poste, Paris, May 30 - October 1, 2011 ( retrospective ) K,
- 2006: Traces in Nature. Sala Picasso, Circulo de Bellas Artes de MadridK
- 2005: Maison des Arts, Paris
- 2004: Musée de Châteauroux, Strasbourg
- 2003: nests. Art Gallery FürthK,
- 2002: Nils -Udo Towards Nature. Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi / Hokkaido Obihiro Museum of Art / Iwate Museum of Art, MoriokaK
- 2000: L'art avec la nature. Centre européen d' actions artistiques contemporaines ( CEAAC ), Strasbourg; Nils Udo. Musée Zadkine, Paris
- 1999: Nils -Udo. Galleria d' Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo ( GAMeC ), Bergamo; Nils -Udo. Art with nature. Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen / California Center for the Arts, Escondido, USAK
- 1995: Nils -Udo. Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City
Work
With its interventions aims to sensitize the people to the nature Nils -Udo.
For the 2005 National Garden Festival, Munich, for example, put Nils -Udo in a separately created for this purpose Erdmulde to an oversized bird's nest with 2 meters large bird eggs and up to 18 m long spruce trunks as branches. The visitors moved to the base of the nest on white pebbles - which represented the fluff - and so experienced the ' bird's eye ' from the nest inside out.
For his work, Stone - Time - Man (2001) on the Waldskulpturenweg Wittgenstein -Sauerland brought Nils -Udo an approximately 150 -ton quartzite monolith to the surface and Ground surrounded him with monumental pine logs that had precipitated the storm. In the viewer, the monolith thus acts as if he needed protection, or even like a temple shrine.
However, most of his works are far less monumental. Rather sensitively arranged Nils -Udo, what he finds - rocks, branches, leaves, flowers, berries, sand, salt - and transforms them into images, metaphors and symbols of often poetic intensity.
" My job is to work in nature, with nature, to work in parallel to nature and above all, to work out of it and for it to work. This means that my work does not consist of artifacts to furnish the nature that does not work. "
Perhaps his best-known work is the album cover for the album OVO by Peter Gabriel.