Natures beauty is assured, and it has long been used to inspire the artistic expression of man, from our paleolithic ancestors to today. Art has often attempted to address our relationship with nature, from a transcendental place of worship, to a threatening and alien environment. However, some artists choose simply to use nature as it is to elicit our own ingrained responce, and to exhibit that beauty which already exists within.
About 2 months ago, I visited a retrospective exhibition of the landscape artist Nils Udo. His use of natural forms, shades and colours creates epheremal transient structures which whilst undone by wind, rain and fire are captured on celluloid. Udo uses mineral and vegetal matter to create pieces often at odds with their in situ surrounding, but ultimately built from within. I find that this approach gives real power to his images, in that their essence is maintained despite an artificial construction.
"Even if I work parallel to nature and only intervene with the greatest possible care, a basic internal contradiction remains. It is a contradiction that underlies all of my work, which itself can't escape the inherent fatality of our existence. It harms what it touches : the virginity of nature... To realize what is possible and latent in Nature, to literally realize what has never existed, utopia becomes reality. A second life suffices. The event has taken place. I have only animated it and made it visible." Quote taken from greenmuseum.org.
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| The Nest 1978, Without Title 1990, Farnblätter 2006 |
About 2 months ago, I visited a retrospective exhibition of the landscape artist Nils Udo. His use of natural forms, shades and colours creates epheremal transient structures which whilst undone by wind, rain and fire are captured on celluloid. Udo uses mineral and vegetal matter to create pieces often at odds with their in situ surrounding, but ultimately built from within. I find that this approach gives real power to his images, in that their essence is maintained despite an artificial construction.
"Even if I work parallel to nature and only intervene with the greatest possible care, a basic internal contradiction remains. It is a contradiction that underlies all of my work, which itself can't escape the inherent fatality of our existence. It harms what it touches : the virginity of nature... To realize what is possible and latent in Nature, to literally realize what has never existed, utopia becomes reality. A second life suffices. The event has taken place. I have only animated it and made it visible." Quote taken from greenmuseum.org.
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