Murals by BLU

**sorry for the tons of broken links in this thread! - shall be fixed at once... **

Let me introduce you mural painter artist BLU from Italy. Among other good sources -will come up in this thread-, their works tagged at streetartnews.net also has a wikipage.
(Other good sources: bio at Alchetron and MuralForm, introduction at WideWalls, works listed at unurth.com, also might find various further sources as e.g. ekosystem in placemarks' descriptions.)

Not long ago, while surfing the net I have bumped into one of their wall paintings in Rome and after I have -not so easily- found it on GE decided to mark as much as I can.



In attached kmz I have started with three of their murals in the italian capital I could find at first, but have been updated file time to time I could manage to locate further ones.*
(Doubleclick to each palcemark will bring you to streetview position where function is available.)

2^nd and 3^rd placemark in folder.
No.2.: Via Ciciliano, Rome (2015) and No.3.: Via del Portofluviale #1, Rome (2014):
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more full resolution images from blu's sketch note-book, on this and that page.

As one can read in BLU's sketch note-book, several other murals can be find in Italy, Poland, Austria, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Slovenia, Serbia, Greece, Spain, Portugal, France, Morocco, Mexico, Bolivia, Argentina, Chile and in the USA. 

So, well the search is on, also every of your own findings are warmly welcomed in this thread!

*Recent stage of updates: 77 murals (places) marked on GE.
BLU walls.kmz (14.91 KB)

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Mural by CitéCréation

Murals by SLOBO (by willi1)

Murals by Mantra

Mural by WD

Bookshelf Murals Around The World (by CuriousJM)

The largest mural by one artist (by ET_Explorer)

Shadow Art by Damon Belanger

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Attached file in OP updated with 3 more murals in Rome and one from Bologna.

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blublu.org/

(by various dates of streetview shots, some of the walls are not in such condition as can be seen following links in placemark descriptions)

full image and article:
streetartnews.net/2016/08/blu-in-porto-torres-italy.html

Attachment in OP updated with placemark at earlier streetview shot phase. (firewall without the painting)

2 more locations from the EU but 3 placemarks. One location without Streetview parity from Munich, and one with Streetview imagery from two time sections. 

and
image sources: blu and san

updated kmz file attached to OP

one last from Chiomonte, Italy for this week (11th find):

source: blublu.org/sito/walls/2015/001.html

Placemark available by downloading kmz attachment in OP.
(For some reason I cannot save file with such settings to make it to fly into a Streetview snapshot position, so please just drop your little chap under the bridge!)

have a nice weekend!

g

One from Campobasso, Italy -I think repainted-, one from Buenos Aires, Monserrat somewhat altered, one from Milan, and at last I have found the 2^nd in Campobasso, Italy again (in order I found them).
The one from Milan has been painted in 2009. so these days looks a bit worn. The latter from Campobasso is situated next to another all-firewall mural by another artist.
In palcemark descriptions new LatinAmerican web source appears, where further infos on paintings available.

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pics source: blublu.org/

Check GE PhotoLayer for photoreference for some of the artworks in Italy!

Updated kmz file attached to OriginalPost

It is so recent that streetartnews.net is not as up-to-date as StreetView imagery:

Blu recently spent some time in the city of Napoli in Italy where he just finished working on a brand new piece in the district of Materdei.

Painting at the former psychiatric hospital prison known as OPG, the Italian artist created this impressive green giant. Screaming in despair with empty eyes and only identified by a number, the giant is a symbol for all the many nameless faces who passed through this place. The piece can be found on Via Imbriani, in the heart of one of the historical district of Napoli.

full image and more from source: SAN

On GE StreetView you can see 3 more faces already been painted and we only can guess whaz coming...

This one is marked as 'BLU mural 16' in kmz folder attached to OriginalPost.

Italian street art legend BLU ... painted this ... mural for the Hecho en Casa Festival. Not unlike the rest of his work, BLU managed to immerse himself in the Chilean reality and create this mural about the Chilean dilemma regarding the construction of HidroAysén, a proposed $8 billion mega-hydroelectric dam project that would provide the country’s central electrical grid with 2,750 megawatts of power over the the next 12 years.
According to Policymic the main problem with the HidroAysén plan is that it would build five dams, significantly altering 14,000 acres of the pristine Patagonian region, a diverse ecosystem shared by Chile and Argentina that’s known for its glaciers, islands, mountains, and fjords.

In addition to the dams, the project would require the construction of a transmission line spanning almost 1,200 miles — making it the largest in the world — as well as access roads through Andean glaciers. Furthermore, the project could flood the Pascua and Baker Rivers, across which the dams would be built.
Flooding could lead to ecological damage in Chile, but the hydroelectric plant could have environmental consequences for the rest of the world, significantly contributing to clime change.
The mural intends to depict this exposing the problem in a visual way. An interesting and worrying issue these days.

The mural is located at Rivera Norte del Mapocho (between the Patronato and Recoleta neighbourhoods).

more photos from source: urbanitewebzine.com

other great source of photos of the mural (Italian): ilgorgo.com

Updated kmz file attached to OP.

blublu.org/sito/walls/2010/005.html

"In 2010 Blu was invited to Vienna to paint a mural at the Danube River harbour near Albern in the city district of Simmering. First suggested in 1923 as one possibility for the expansion of Vienna's harbour facilities, Albern was selected for realisation by the German Reichsverkehrsministerium (Imperial Ministry for Transport) in 1939, a year after the "Anschluss" of Austria to Nazi Germany. The project was to serve as a logistic node of a future geo- and biopolitical order, designated for the transshipment of grain from the annexed or economically colonized regions of eastern and south-eastern Europe to the heartlands of the German Reich. For the construction of the harbour basin and its five granaries between 1939 and 1942 the Nazi regime employed forced labour. Realized on one of the granaries, Blu's mural called upon the overdue historical and social commemoration of the place's charged history and the unknown fates of the forced labourers who built it. The commissioned piece was destroyed in autumn 2013 in the course of renovation works."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu_(artist)

Kmz file updated with this one attached to OriginalPost.

Not Streetview location, check GE Photo Layer!

blublu.org/sito/walls/2011/003.html

(back to normal map-view, check also GE Photo layer!)

Updated kmz file attached to Original Post

one from Ordes:

blublu.org/sito/walls/2012/004.html

and one from Madrid (El Campo De Cebada):

blublu.org/sito/walls/2012/003.html

where "Blu painted a very accurate and sad description of our era which is fuelled by war, consumption, oil, money and governments that are ultimately leading us all to an unavoidable precipice…" - streetartnews
not best seen in Streetview, but some relevant panoramio shots around. 

Updated kmz file attached to OriginalPost

one from Bethlehem (2007):

www.blublu.org/sito/walls/2007/011.html
(no Streetview, poor relevant Photo layer content)

and one from Prague, Narodni Ave. (2008):

www.blublu.org/sito/walls/2008/010.html
(StreetView shot and aerial imagery from other time sections, but good pieces of relevant Photo layer content by the location available.)

Updated kmz file attached to OriginalPost

www.blublu.org/sito/walls/2015/002.html

Article: urbanitewebzine.com

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Updated kmz file attached to OP.

Funny (?) StreetView screenshot attached here:

www.blublu.org/sito/walls/2013/001.html

Article: streetartnews.net

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Updated kmz file attached to OP.

So sad StreetView screenshot here:

...of how Warsaw defended anti-war mural,

blublu.org/sito/walls/2010/002.html

and how L.A. did not.

blublu.org/sito/walls/2010/007.html


Updated kmz file attached to OriginalPost

Listed in order of as I have found 28-30. from Greece, Italy and Denmark, year of made: 2011. (first two) and 2008. (Denmark). - All visible on Streetview.

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blublu.org

Check full pictures instantly by one click on links to the coin-ruins in Greece, to the pasta-sneak-beard man in Italy and to the war-pencil in Denmark.

Updated kmz file attached to OriginalPost

Stavanger, Norway (2010)
-co-work with Ericailcane-

original source (broken link): www.panoramio.com/photo/41042029

at homepage:
blublu.org/sito/walls/2010/004.html

The building has been demolished between 2011-2012, no Streetview sight, still some relevant panoramio shots available next to marker.

Updated kmz file attached to OriginalPost

32-33.
Both visible on Streetview imagery, also scenes well equipped with relevant GE Photo-layer content.

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blublu.org

Updated kmz file attached to OriginalPost

That’s an interesting growing collection. Power to blind walls!

Hi BP, glad you like it! I do not know why have I picked just this wall-artist among the several others, those might be better equipped with georeferences in their web-sources.  
Often, while trying to search on GE surface for buildings without anyhow signed location on sourcepages I think: -whadda hell I am doing? this is such a F&G-faces job!-, so special welcomes around!

addresses or coordinates please! (:

best,
g

So new, that has not even dried yet! - No StreetView, no relevant Photo-layer content available on GE, so have put a photo also in placemark's description. 
In the same breath refreshed all placemarks with photos where no- or not best StreetView view available by this time.

BergamoPost
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There are humans, animals, reptiles, dinosaurs, red crabs and even fruits – apples and bananas – in the mural that Blu gave to the residents of the Celadina district in Bergamo. All together in a big house with a orange roof, to represent a new way to conceive the popular neighborhoods. At the bottom left, the government painted in a grey tone is isolated as a sign that it does not know how to handle the housing problems.

The work was created on a wall of an abandoned building and is painted with different colors, from pink to orange to yellow, red, green and blue of course, facing the street: many people stop and snap a photo, impressed that this neighborhood can be so colorful and vibrant.
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Read full article and view more photos at source - StreetArtNews:
streetartnews.net/2016/10/a-house-for-everyone-by-blu-in-bergamo-italy.html

Updated kmz file attached to OriginalPost

Placemark No.: 35. (painted in 2016.)

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The Rog Factory (Tovarna Rog) is a squat in Ljubljana, Slovenia which has been occupied since 2006. Before the occupation it was an abandoned and decaying former bicycle factory that had stopped operating after the downfall of Yugoslavia.
From 2006 till now diverse collectives and individuals found their space in Rog and restored parts of the complex to make a use of it through a self-organised actions with their own resources. There are various art/craft studios, an indoor skate park, a circus practise ground, a social centre, a gym and other infrastructures which are being used by a vast array of people.

Most of the spaces are open for public, and they organise/host many non-profit activities
(solidarity actions, safe spaces for refugee self-organization, etc.).The complex is located in the city centre, which the municipality of Ljubljana is trying to gentrify along with the rest of the down town area.

The Municipal plan proposed to demolish some parts of the complex and (re)build a new complex that would be used for profitable
purposes and for sterile institutionalized art spaces. The municipality notified the community of Rog that they need to leave or they are going to be evicted. After years of hard work, thousands of hours of autonomous initiative, and with no chances to carry on the activities somewhere else, Rog users decided to stay and protect their spaces.
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Read full article and view more photos at source - StreetArtNews:
streetartnews.net/2016/07/blu-in-ljubljana-slovenia.html

Drop your little StreetView chap of GE on Trubarjeva street, N to marker: -However no relevant StreetView or Photo layer content available, still exact wall section of the paint, also cool other graffiti on the streetwalls are visible.

Updated kmz file attached to OriginalPost

(placemarks No.: 36-39.)

A quick piece from Girona, Spain (2013.),
co-work with Ericailcane:

streetartnews.net/2013/06/blu-x-ericailcane-new-mural-in-girona.html

Another coproduction with Ericailcane, 
Bari, Italy - Socrate occupato (2012.):

streetartnews.net/2012/11/blu-x-ericailcane-new-mural-in-bari.html

Cologne, Germany (2011.):

blublu.org/sito/walls/2011/004.html

Belgrade, Serbia (2009.):

blublu.org/sito/walls/2009/004.html

Updated kmz file attached to OriginalPost

The 40. location is about two murals by BLU from 2007. and 2009., Co-work with JR.
The iconic murals had been blacked out by the artists for reasons one could have read in The Guardian.

Relevant Streetview imagery for the first one and GE Photo-layer content for both are available on GE.


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(photo credits available at the links above)

By this update I have edited placemark descriptions: all web addresses (links, image sources) embedded into html tags.

Updated kmz file attached to OriginalPost

(placemark No.: 41.-42.)

Walls have been changed since as can be seen on Streetview imagery, therefore added photos to placemark descriptions too.

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blublu.org/

Updated kmz file attached to OriginalPost

(No.:43) - At last have found this one in Mexico!


blublu.org/sito/walls/2015/001.html

Updated kmz file attached to OriginalPost

Two from Niscemi, Sicily with no relevant Streetview or Photo-layer content and one from Ancona with both qualities.
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Full size photos and short descriptions from sources: ****Niscemi #1****Niscemi #2****Ancona****

Updated kmz file attached to OriginalPost

...at last! (No.: 47.)


blublu.org/sito/walls/2009/001.html

Updated kmz file attached to OriginalPost

An old one from 2007. A bit worn, still can be seen on Streetview imagery, also relevant photo-layer content next to marker.


blublu.org/sito/walls/2007/005.html

Updated kmz file attached to OriginalPost

Well, with this two I have reached the psychological half-hundred placemarks in this collection, what I frankly have not thought a month ago, when the search started. 
Thanks for the attention so far and stay tuned!
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These both are signed with #2 while the two previous finds in Berlin and Valencia got their #1 in folder.
The one in Berlin did not exist by the time the StreetView car passed by, however numerous shots in photo-layer immortalize the hourglass. (until panoramio exists itself)

No.: 49.

click for full-image: blublu.org/sito/walls/2010/003.html

No.: 50.

click for full-image: blublu.org/sito/walls/2011/005.html

Updated kmz file attached to OriginalPost