BLU: Tauró Del Carmel Mural – Reinterpreted

Blue re-creates his mural from 2009 and gives the neighborhood of Carmel, in Barcelona, Spain reasons to be overwhelmed with joy.

The internationally known and respected muralist, street artist and activist, Italian painter BLU worked intensely for one month with the producer, B-Murlas of this 70 meters mural (about 230 feet) to paint his new Tauró del Carmel mural on the same wall and street where he had painted the original back in 2009 in calle Santuari.

When the original mural had to be painted over by the municipality in 2001 for safety reasons due to the wall being in bad shape, the residents in the neighborhood were in disbelief when they found out that they had not only lost a monumental piece of art, but also a well known and loved landmark instantly recognized by the locals as point of reference, for directions or simply on a mutually agreed meeting spot.

Working together with the community, local authorities and B-Murals, BLU began working on this project with purpose and intensity with the idea of giving his new Shark an interpretation that is both current, timely and of time.

BLU kept the original design, the shark with the Euro bill, a commentary on capitalism run amok, greed and corporations ever hunger for more profits at any cost, as a starting point. From there he proceeded to paint a colossal story with images about the most urgent, pressing and, topical issues affecting our world today: Wars, the military industrial complex, the environment, the intensity of natural disasters made more dangerous and devastating by global warming, and the imminent dislocation of entire societies due to the degeneration of natural habitats and the lack of natural resources for these communities to continue living in their lands.

With this new mural by BLU, and many others produced by B-Murals under the Carmel Mossega Project, and in conjunction with the municipal authorities the residents of Carmel will again find their attachment to this piece of art, they know that it belongs to them as all street art should be. For the people.

An Initiative of: Dte. d’Horta-Guinardó i Pla de Barris

Design and production: Difusor / B-Murals

Artist/Muralist: Blu (@bluwalls)

B-Murlas wishes to extend a special shout-out of gratitude to their production assistant for this project: Julián Manzelli (@chudoma)