The work of Paris based Ludo, often called Nature’s Revenge, connects the world of plants and animals with our technological universe. It speaks about what surrounds us, what affects us and tries to highlight some kind of humility.
Drawn with the precision of botanical illustrations, Ludo’s new order of hybrid organisms is both elegant and fierce. Armoured vehicles spawn stag beetle horns; carnivorous plants bare rows of hunting-knife teeth; bees hover, hidden behind gas masks and goggles; automatic weapons crown the head of sunflowers; human skulls cluster together like grapes.
Ludo’s work aspires to jolt us out of a longstanding collective denial: despite repeated natural disasters, we refuse to acknowledge our own fragile state. Humanity’s reign on this planet is a dangerous and fleeting illusion.
French artist Ludo has been active on the streets for a few years now. His art is characterized with grey, white and his already famous acid green trademark. With his Nature’s Revenge theme it is like he is trying to get nature back in today’s hectic world. Images of, for example, butterflies, flowers, insects and vegetables with modern objects and techniques popping out.
