Anyone else think that Blu is imminent for a Bansky-level explosion of popularity? The artist who last year brought us an incredible mindtrip of an urban wall-painted animation has posted up some new works in Grottaglie, Italy — for the Fame Festival. The images above depict a piece commenting on a massive steel factory in nearby Taranto.

this factory is destroying the territory and killing a lot of workers ’cause of its big lack of security measures and high environmental pollution. the direct consequence is that Taranto has one of the highest rate of death by cancer in italy. As a plus, the smartest politicians from Grottaglie’s town council allowed, back in ‘96, the construction of a very filthy special wastes dump right outside the city. they did not inform the people, they did not ask anybody’s opinion, they just did it. i wish i could wonder WHY they did it.



i usually like to think that every piece of art can have different meaning, depending on who is looking at it and from wich perspective he is looking from. this time, i prefer to think that we’re all looking at a mere mirror of the actual situation we’re living in.


especially for our mean local politicians, none of them excluded. i hope that they can recognise themselves in these huge faces and feel disgusted for what they’ve done to their people.

[Fame Festival via Wooster]