Eindhoven, Nederland, may2009
cmos 1.6x, iso 100, 18mm f6.3 1/125s
Graffiti by Blu (Bologna). grazie Alessia :~)
check out the artist website:
www.blublu.org
from there, follow the links to the video animations of his works, the sketches, and the wall photos. check out the animation ‘Muto’ (also available as hi-res free download), please!
if you want to know some more about him, i found this article interesting:
http://www.throughthetube.com/2008/04/13/against-the-wall-blu-paints-giants-in-buenos-aires/
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Blu started out his artistic career following his passion for drawing, public art, particularly unauthorized, illegal art. Coming from the graffiti culture he started developing his art based on a very personal figurative style. His work lives in two stages and two different spaces.
It originates from sketches jotted down in sketchbook, which represent a diary as well as an image database to be used in the second stage: the mural. The actual project starts in front of the building, with size and load bearing elements of the wall, in effort to identify an impossible combination between painting and surrounding architecture. He avail himself of the most traditional and essential painting tools : brushes, paint roller, one colour and black; he often use techniques drawn from scenography as well as long sticks, which act as supports when working on large surfaces.
The language adopted is strictly based on drawings: it originated from comics and cartoons, although it is best and provisionally epitomized by urban graffiti. The work remains on paper once the mural has disappeared or faded, when it has been taken down, covered or destroyed together with its supporting frame. Inspiration stems from a need of creating that is otherwise stifled by domestic walls, from the sheer pleasure of transforming ordinary and decaying places, showing how creativity may redevelop from urban degradation. [www.artfacts.net]
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