Udo noger biography
Udo noger biography
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Udo Nöger creates luminous monochrome paintings that capture light, movement and energy expressed in highly minimalistic compositions.
Nöger, who grew up in Enger, a town in Westphalia, Germany, emigrated to the U.S.
in 1990 on a scholarship. In the earlier part of his career, he was known for his expressive figurative paintings that explore the dimensionality of color. These raw, mixed-media works were often populated by mysterious, archaic figures and symbolically charged imagery inspired by his travels.
One such trip was to the South Pacific, where Nöger discovered the ancient Rongorongo writings; a series of elemental glyphs made up of animals, figures and symbols used by the people of Easter Island centuries ago.
Over time, he began to incorporate this ancient iconography into his work, eventually creating his own pictorial language, which gradually became more abstract. At the same time, Nö