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{{short description|German artist from Bavaria (born 1937)}}
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{{Infobox artist
| name = Nils-Udo
| image =Nils-Udo (1993).jpg
| caption = Nils-Udo in 1993
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| birth_date = 1937
| birth_place = [[Lauf an der Pegnitz]], Germany
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| nationality = German
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| field = [[Sculpture]]; [[Fine art photography|photography]]
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'''Nils-Udo''' (born
== Selected works and projects ==
=== ''OVO'' (2000) ===
Peter Gabriel contacted Nils Udo to create an installation for the cover for his new album '''''OVO'''''. Udo created a nest-like structure supported by tree trunks, which made it very heavy. Inside the nest lay the child of a Real World (Studio in England where the album was recorded) employee (The child, Josh, is the son of Susie Millns at Real World’s Art department). The photograph was taken and then the installation was moved into Peter Gabriels's garden nearby. Finally due to issues of what to do with it, the gardener set the structure on fire. This did not upset Udo as his work is transient and there is a photograph that keeps the artwork still living.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://realworldgalleries.com/ovo/|title=Ovo » Real World Galleries|website=realworldgalleries.com|access-date=2018-11-27|archive-date=2018-11-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181127152029/http://realworldgalleries.com/ovo/|url-status=live}}</ref> Its called OVO because it has an OVO form.
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=== ''Radeau d'Automne'' (
The community of d’[[Éguzon-Chantôme]] and [[Crozant]] had the desire of local authorities to initiate artistic and cultural projects in a remote rural areas based on the environmental qualities of its sites. Udo proposed '''''Radeau d' Automne''''' as a monumental sculpture designed with natural materials. In the shape of a stylized maple half-leaf, 6.80 meters long and 3.90 meters high, the work is built in round trunks with light chestnut wood, assembled "with the old "tenons, mortises and ankles. This traditional, solid and aesthetic blend, as well as the use of a local essence and strong identity, reinforces the link to the territory. It was here to give shape to a space, the space of the valley of the Creuse, marked by the history of pictorial currents of the nineteenth century. and 20th century. and thus exposing himself to a new reading, to a new look: the wooden raft and water, leaf reflecting on the river at the foot of the granite ruins and recalling the steep ridges of the surrounding landscape.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.culture.gouv.fr/Regions/Drac-Nouvelle-Aquitaine/Creation-Industries-culturelles/Arts-plastiques/La-commande-publique/Le-Radeau-d-Automne-Nils-Udo|title=Le Radeau d'Automne
=== Other Important Works ===
* '''''Tower''''': Benthelm sandstone, Nordhorn, Germany, 1982<ref name=":0" />
* '''''Waterhouse''''': spruce trunks, birch branches, willow switches and sod on tidal flats,Waddensee mudflats, Holland, 1982<ref name=":0" />
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* Bindweed flowers held in their journey on a stream by a stick dam. Reunion, Indian Ocean, 1990.<ref name=":1" />
* '''''Robinia''' '''Leaf''' '''Swing''''': Robinia leaf halved, ash twigs, Valle de Sella, Italy, 1992.<ref name=":1" />
* '''''The''' '''Blue''' '''Flower''''': Landscape for heinrich von Ofterdingen, planting of 10,000 wildflowers in Munich, Germany,
* '''''Tadpole''' '''Willow''''': Fern leaves and mud, view of site specific work in Marchiennes, France, 1994.<ref name=":0" />
* '''''Root''-''Sculpture'',''' Mexico City, 1995<ref name=":1" />
* '''''Red Rock Nest''''': Bamboo, earth, oranges, limes, and lemons, site-specific work, Topanga Canyon, California. Commissioned by ecoartspace, 1998 <ref name=":9">{{Cite news|url=https://sculpturemagazine.art/nils-udo-nature-works/ |title=Nils-Udo: Nature Works |date=September 1999 }}</ref>
* '''''Dune''' '''Edge''''': pampas grass, sand, wind—Namibia, 2001
** Lost in the immensity of the mountainous red sand dunes of Namibia. One of the oldest deserts in the world. Not a breath of wind, not a sound. The tracks of a solitary gazelle crisscross the huge immaculate hollow at the foot of one gigantic dune. The shadow of late afternoon sun rapidly draws closer. - Nils Udo<ref name=":0" />
* '''''The Nest''''': National Garden Show, Munich, Germany, 2005 <ref name=":2">{{Cite news|url=http://www.nils-udo.com/art-in-the-urban-space/?lang=en|title=ART IN THE URBAN SPACE
* '''''Sella Nest''''': Spruce logs and white marble, Valle di Sella, Italy, 2008<ref name=":2" />
* '''''Entrance''''': Mountain Bluets, Pigment print 135x180 cm , Pyrenees , 2018<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.nils-udo.com/art-in-nature/?lang=en|title=Art in nature
== From His Own Words ==
* "Moving from Paris to rural Bavaria, perceiving the endangerment of nature, its growing destruction, I lived through a profound change of awareness."<ref name=":0" />
* "Being a part of nature, being embedded in it and living on it, it appeared to me that acting in compliance with the laws of nature was something self-evident and necessary for survival."<ref name=":0" />
* "[My art is a] documentation of a dying world experience. To bear witness, at the last possible moment, to a now seemingly anachronistic perception of life, an attitude that can barely be understood, even by those willing to do so."<ref name=":1" />
* "Nature is still complete and inexhaustible in her most remote refuges, her magic still real. At any time, meaning any season, in all weathers, in things great and small. Always. Potential Utopias are under every stone, on every leaf and behind every tree, in the clouds and in the wind. Pitting poetry against the inhuman river of time"<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=http://www.ecologicalart.org/nilsudo.html|title=Nils-Udo-Interview by John K. Grande|website=www.ecologicalart.org|access-date=2018-11-27|archive-date=2018-11-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181127193542/http://www.ecologicalart.org/nilsudo.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
* "We must realize our responsibility for what is happening, for society. Art always deals with reality. Those who shut their eyes to reality are liars and deprive themselves of any meaningful possibility of acting in society and (in the history of) art. What we are working for, if not for man, for society? Despite clear-sighted pessimism
* "Everything perceivable through human senses takes part--Natural space experienced through hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting and touching. By means of the smallest possible interventions, living, three-dimensional natural space is reorganized, unlocked and put under tension."<ref name=":0" />
* “By installing plantings or by integrating them into more complex installations, the work is literally implanted into nature. As a part of nature, the work lives and passes away in the rhythm of the seasons.”<ref
==Bibliography==▼
▲== Bibliography ==
* ''Nils-Udo: Art In Nature'', 2002, {{ISBN|2-08-010891-3}}
* ''Le maïs'', 1996, {{ISBN|2-908650-32-0}}
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* Nils-Udo: sur l'eau, 2015, {{ISBN|978-2-330-05056-6}}
== Gallery ==
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== See also ==
* [[Andy Goldsworthy]]
* [[Environmental art]]
* [[Environmental sculpture]]
* [[Greenmuseum.org]]
* [[Land art]]
== References ==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080820081731/http://www.greenmuseum.org/content/artist_index/artist_id-36.html Nils-Udo]
* [http://www.artnet.com/artist/572953/nils-udo.html Nils-Udo on artnet]
* [http://www.blackflamingo.eu/ black flamingo agency] represents Nils-Udo for commissioned work
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