Planting of 10,000 wildflowers in Munich, Germany. Object-based art, even installation art, is largely propagated for the museum or gallery venue. As a result, it exists to justify the space. The artificiality of the act of creation is emphasized rather than the age-old links that have existed between cultural activity and nature. The heterogeneity of his language of expression, indeed the complexity of the structures and forms he builds, evokes an architectonic dialogue on culture and nature.
Nature supports nature.
The structures that have been put in place reference our culture s capacity to build a meaning into what is essentially a self-generating continuum of life. Elements in a site the colors, shapes, weight, luminescence, and durability of nature s diverse elements, even the broader geological strata or lay of the land are integrated into Nils-Udo s morphologies of human presence in nature. The structure and language of living elements, our relation to unrecorded holistic history, agriculture, the wilderness, and the culture of nature all intertwine in this work. Tadpole Willow 1994. Fern leaves and mud, view of site specific work in Marchiennes, France.