BLU

BLU is an Italian street artist that does no less than impress! Working all over the world he uses masonry paint and extended rollers to create massive character depictions across building faces; sometime funny, sarcastic or just obscure but always without fail intriguing. Moving away from traditional graffiti media BLU has managed to expand his art in ways that spray paint couldn't.

Since the beginning of his career he has been a keen collaborator working with such artist as Sweza and Ericailcane at the beginning of the century in anonymous artistic attacks on the streets of Bologna, Italy. BLU's style and popularity grew and by 2005 he was beginning to embark on a global journey of commissions.

As well as gigantic building statements he also had an early interest in digital media, more specifically stop frame animation. This combined with his versatile use of paint has enabled BLU to create some spectacular stop frame animation that really is not to be missed.

If you enjoyed that you can catch much more on You Tube. For drawings and other great works visit BLU's site.

As well as the obvious enjoyable element to this work there is often also a point, be it political or on elements of society. One piece that any 9-5 avoider would appreciate is the Berlin mural of late 2008. This gigantic image of a mind/headless office worker trying to keep tidy but yet chained down by not only time but also his gold and apparent greed. This image on a commuter’s route of the people it's supposed to represent could be taken as an insult, or maybe someone's sympathetic observation on the masses.