The rising French painting star Ludovic Vernhet, aka LUDO, presents for the first time in five years a new exhibition in Paris: ‘I've been missing you’.
In recent years, LUDO has traveled the world and has made a name for his installations in New York, his monumental walls throughout the world and his institutional projects, in particular at the Power Station of Art Museum in Shanghai. As a protean artist, LUDO invites us for a journey through his multi-faceted works. A photographer, painter and genius drawer, he is also fascinated by sculpturing which allows him to give life in three dimensions to the creatures of his imagination. In this exhibition LUDO also presents an installation made up of an army of fireflies whose phosphorescent light dazzles and envelops while letting emerge a certain question about the relation of man to technology.
LUDO transforms butterflies, bees, crows or vegetables into technological-organic motifs. In an interview with Sophie Pujas (Le Point) in 2015, he already explained "I use my own weapons to talk about what interests me. What I like is nature mixed with chaos, mechanics, robotics ... It comes to me from my influences: I like the universe of chrome, but also curves, bodies, insects - And the Cronenberg films, where there is all that. A bunch of radish is transformed into clusters of syringes, a bee wears a gas mask; Human skulls gather together to form a bunch of grapes ... traced with the precision of botanical illustrations in the largest formats as on miniature drawings, these hybrids emerging from the artist's imagination are as elegant as they are ferocious.
The images of LUDO explore the environment, the future, the space, the human. His biotechnological creations come to colonize the three levels of the gallery and plunge us into a chimerical universe where we find the passions and inspirations of the artist: tattoo, music, etc. This exhibition opens an eventful season for LUDO, which, after being noticed for his immense collage in the exhibition Street Generation(s) in Roubaix, is expected in Berlin in September at the Urban Nation Museum then in Amsterdam in the autumn.
LUDO, I’ve been missing you, solo show from 17 june until 29 july 2017
Opening on saturday June 17th, from 6 to 9PM
Address: Galerie Magda Danysz 78 rue Amelot Paris 11
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