Blu (Artist)

Blu represents one of the most innovative and politically engaged voices in contemporary street art, renowned for creating massive murals that often serve as frames in groundbreaking stop-motion animations. This Italian artist revolutionized street art by transforming static walls into dynamic storytelling platforms. Blu’s work consistently addresses themes of capitalism, war, environmental destruction, and social inequality through surreal imagery and dark humor.

Blu Mural Against Europe’s Border

Blu - Europe Border Europe is a fortress, you can read that thesis almost everywhere at any time. It describes Europe’s border politics as backward-looking, inhuman and as a mass violation of human rights. Recently, one of the world’s most famous mural artists Blu, who became famous with his critical, questioning paintings around the globe, picked up on this border policy with his latest mural in Melilla, Spain! ...

Blu Murals Buenos Aires

After he painted in nearly every European metropolis (check out the Blu murals in Europe) in 2011, Italian street artist Blu is on a trip through South America right now, painting one mural after another… Argentina’s Blu Murals Especially the Argentinian capital Buenos Aires seems to be one of his favorite target: After he painted that impressive mural of obediently leader following Argentinian folks back in November 2011 and the funny BBQ mural and the Blu Planet painting in December, the Italian mural king came up with a new money river mural just a few days ago! ...

Urban Art Recap, September 2011

Again we pulled through another month and again I really enjoyed it, bringing the latest street art and graffiti news, urban art photos and book review directly into your browser. Here are the most popular posts in September: IBUg 2011 – Urban Art Festival Photos Organized by famous German graffiti artist Ta55o, this year’s IBUg festival took place in Saxonia again. I joined the preparations was able to give you some nice insights… ...

Blu Mural, Cologne

Do you remember the fantastic anti-BP mural artwork famous Italian street art grandmaster Blu painted as a part of the CityLeaks urban art festival in Cologne earlier this year? Actually it’s not important if you can or not, you should definitely watch this nice stop-motion video documenting the entire creation process! Located at one of the city´s busiest spots, the menacing head of a faucet haired medusa stares down on the passing traffic. To its left we can glimpse Street Art duo Captain Borderline realizing their mural. ...

CityLeaks - Urban Art Festival

It’s urban art festival time in Germany, what’s a good reason for all of you to travel the forgotten, abandoned or public places and spaces in Berlin, Saxony or even Cologne… Artrmx and Colorrevolution are going to present the international urban art festival CityLeaks in Cologne this year! Artists from all over the world are invited to create large-scale murals, paste-ups and installations in public spaces, house fronts, off-locations and galleries during the festival’s outdoor action-week. Well-known urban artists like Blu, (who already created the first mural) Emess, El Bocho, Faith47, Jim Avignon, Roa, Sam3, Smash137, Stefan Strumbel, Zedz and others already agreed, what makes CityLeaks becoming probably the biggest urban art festival on continental Europe. ...

New Blu Mural in Krakow

blu kracow mural Mural Art | The master of European mural art Blu recently finished another masterpiece wall in the beautiful Polish city of Kracow! Although I don’t know whether the mural’s chief subject - a big bell - is somehow special, this time’s topic seems to be religion and its stupid noises you can’t fail to hear… In addition to all the other fantastic wall paintings Blu already created in Europe, this again is a great example of politically-inspired urban art. You can find a lot more of Blu’s works in the archive! ...

Urban Artcore Madrid

Madrid Street Art | As some of you already know, I used the announced posting break to travel to Madrid to have some relaxed days with friends and to have a look at what’s going on in the Spanish capital. Although the weather hasn’t been as good as desired we explored large parts of the city, especially around Tirso de Molina, Sol, Calle de Atocha and Chueca, visited the Museo Reina Sofia to have a close look at Picasso’s masterpiece “Guernica”, took the “Teleférico” (a cable car), visited the great “Tabacalera” art space and of course discovered a lot of great street artworks by Nuria, Sabek, La Pluma Eléctri*k, Blu, BR1, Roa, Rallito X and many more! ...

Blu’s Mural Art DVD

Urban Art Films | We all know these fantastic painted animations and time-lapse documentations by famous mural artist Blu. If not, you should check Blu’s “Big Bag Big Boom” animation or his “Combo Collab Animation” with David Ellis! After I featured him on my list of the “Top Urban Artists 2010”, Blu now published his first DVD, containing a collection of videos made during the last 10 years, including interesting footage of the creations of his large-scale mural artworks as well as the well-known wall-painted animations and over 40 minutes of extra contents! ...

Top Urban Artists 2010

Street Art Review | It’s the last day of the year and for that reason it’s possible to create a lot of different top lists like “Top Urban Art Books 2010”, “Best Urban Art Photos 2010” or this one: “Top Urban Artists 2010”. For sure, it’s difficult to do that, because of the massive count of highly talented urban artists around the globe and of course it’s always my subjective opinion, but it’s also true that I saw, met and recognized some really good artists in the last 12 months, I want to feature in this post. ...

Urban Art Censorship

Political Street Art | Right, it’s not a new topic but today I want to write down some of my thoughts about censorship in the urban arts. The reason for that decision was first the fact that the dollar-coffin mural by Blu was painted over just a couple of hours after it was completed, because of objections by a museum’s director. Second, it’s because of the fact that we have the ARTAQ Urban Art Awards in town, which is somehow supported by the Reporters Without Borders. ...