'344' by Ludo, 2014
Rare, Limited Edition, hand-pulled print from publisher Print Them All.
21.65 x 23.62 Inches
55 x 60 Centimeters
Unique, 3-color offset lithograph on 270gsm BFK Rives fine art paper with hand-deckled edges.
Custom printed with vintage Marinoni press.
Limited Edition of 99 (#36/99)
Hand-signed by the artist in pencil bottom right.
Hand-numbered and publisher embossed bottom left.
ARTIST BIO
The work of Paris based Ludo, often called 'Nature's Revenge', connects the world of plants and animals with our technological universe and a quest for modernism. 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.