Yet another one of those street artists that is amazingly brilliant, but who’s identity remains unknown is Blu. What little is known about him is that he lives in Bologna and has been active in street art scene since 1999.
In the beginning of his career Blu was limited to the use of spray paint, the typical medium of graffiti culture. Later, he branched out to painting with house paint, using rollers mounted on top of telescopic poles. This innovative technique allowed him to produce towering canvasses that conveyed a stronger intensity to his vision.
Blu started experimenting with digital animation and he created some short interactive video clips as contributions to the live performances of the collective OK NO. The list of the places where Blu has left his trace is impressively long, as long as his collection of sketchbooks which contain sketches, thoughts or simply visual notes. His graphic mania is directly proportional to the epic scale of his murals. Thus, his murals are never detached from the places where they were conceived because Blu is a painter in the landscape, urban or industrial. He always tries to communicate with the society which inhabits those spaces, searching for the uniqueness of each place. Besides drawing and painting, the technical universe of Blu is completed by a skillful use of the digital medium. Proof of that can be seen in his website: www.blublu.org
