Blu Research

Blu - His career broke out in 1999, thanks to a sequel of graffiti painted in the centre suburbs of bologna. In the early years of his career technique and budget was limited to spray paint, the typical medium of graffiti culture. his style emerged in 2001, when Blu started working with house paint, using rollers attached on top of telescopic poles. This solution allowed him to increase the painted surface area and convey a stronger intensity to his visual style. Huge human figures sometimes dramatic or sarcastic looked as if they were from comics or video games. They started to flood the streets of Bologna.

The following year, from october 2006 to december 2006, he returned to central and south America for a long circuit of murals that included Mexico City, Guatemala City, Managua, San Jose and Buenos Aires. A year later he was again in South America, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, participating in the festival "A Conquista do Espaco (conquering space). On that occasion he came up with a new interpretation of the c"christ of corcovado" of Rio de Janeiro. In Blu's version Christ is literally submerged by tons of guns and rifles. In the spring of he lived in Buenos Aires, devoting all his efforts to the creation of a video called Muto (Silent). In addition to receiving many international awards, such as the Grand Prix 2009 from the festival of Clermont Ferrand, Muto has been seen by 7 million-plus viewers on Youtube. It is also available in high definition on Blu's website under the creative commons license. The video is composed of hundreds of paintings on walls, made throughout many steers of Buenos Aires and, Frame Creates more than seven minutes of an animated mural.

In 2009 Blu started his umpteenth tour around South America visiting Bogota for the festival "Memoria Canalla" then to Montevideo, Uruguay, and back to Buenos Aires and for the first time to Lima, Peru, where he painted the entire facade of an historical building in the central Avenida Arenale. In Tis Huge mural Blu seems to reinterpret the history of South America, a continent that has been violated by both ancient and modern conquistadores, Blue has visited North America only twice, and the only notable trip was in 2008, when he accepted an invitation from the Deitch Gallery in New York to paint the exterior of ther Long Island Location.