Mixing tools of the urban landscape with elements of nature and technology, Parisian street artist LUDO’s work makes a unique combination and a special sight on buildings and walls across the world.
The artist started producing street art, as he felt the necessity to express himself without asking anyone for permission or guidelines. Using “whatever support the city would offer me”, LUDO started creating his street art illegally using a mix of printed-paper, acrylic and tape for outside works and graphite, oil painting and sometimes spray paint for inside works.
His art comes with a message, emphasising the way society takes nature for granted, by disrespecting, over-exploiting and causing vast destruction. Focusing on our surroundings and effects, his work provides a form of humility.
On what his message is:
There are different messages in my work, multiple visions. The sense of beauty could be a first view but then, if you spend more time to try to understand the visuals there is a message, even a provocation.
It can be hope.
I don’t want it to be understood as sadness or some kind of “end of humankind” as certain people get it. I want to speak about respect in a simple way, respect yourself, your neighbour. I’ve always been inspired by the idea that our quest for perfectionism, power and greatness in a way, with disrespect for what surrounds us, turned into a total no control situation and lead us into such extreme stupid economic and social controversies.
Nature, that we destroyed, is now killing us more than ever. Insects are examples of perfection for scientists that learn from them, from skin cell creation to mathematical organizations to military research. Insects like ants’ socio-political organization are also studied for a bunch of reasons, and the list can go on and on. That all means it’s a kind of “in your face” reverse situation.
