Fly Me to The Moon is an original project realized by LUDO, the street-art’s rising star, in Shanghai from November 2014 to March 2015, at the end of his first trip in this city. The exhibition groups a series of works on canvas around a specific pattern, also sculptures and a video about his adventure in Shanghai in its “work in progress”.

Born in 1976 in Paris, Ludo sticks up his gigantic vegetable-robotics creatures in the whole word’s streets since 2007. He wakes up the urban space recalling the nature in the city. He quickly became the artist of his generation to follow and he exhibits, from 2013 at the Centre Georges Pompidou, his work marked by the recurrent utilization of his emblematic fluo green. LUDO talks about our environment, about what touches us and tries to highlight some humility.

LUDO discovers Shanghai at the autumn 2014 when he participates at a group show organized by the gallery beyond the walls. For him, this experience is a big visual shock and at the same time a huge source of inspiration. Shanghai magnetizes him and he feels a sort of emergency of creation. Pushed by the idea to capture the movement of the city, he realizes a series of canvas in which the central figure is a bee equipped with a gas mask around which he works the matter from dusts, fragments and other elements that he takes from the streets. His esthetic is close to Kiefer’s one. Here, the gleaned elements are sublimed and the artist gives them a new energy. For this exhibition, LUDO realizes also two really big canvas and eight audacious sculptures always emblematic of his very particular esthetic.

About the exhibition

Dates: 21 March, 2015 to 16 May, 2015

Opening: 21 March, 2015

Venue: Magda Danysz Gallery

Address: 188 Linqing Road (x Pingliang Road), Shanghai

Courtesy of the artist and Magda Danysz Gallery.