Italian street artist Blub, based in Florence, has been gaining more and more notoriety thanks to his Paste-Up artworks from the series “L’Arte Sa Nuotare,” which represent some of the best-known works of art submerged in water. 

Blub started its activity in the autumn of 2013 in Cadaqués, in Catalonia, in the fishing village particularly loved by Salvador Dalì; in November of the same year, Blub paid homage to the Florentine district of San Niccolò on the occasion of the anniversary of the flood.
Venice, Rome, Ravenna, Lucca, Pisa, Mantua, but also Barcelona, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Lisbon and even Rio de Janeiro were the stages of his creative journey, which had an international echo testified by the dedicated cover, from Vanity Fair in 2017, to this particular street art experience.

As the artist puts it: “Although we may find ourselves in a sea of difficulties, in life we always have the resources to learn to swim. Art is one such resource. Water is my element. Life is born from water, it is the hidden side of matter. When you are immersed, the moment stops and there is no weight, while thoughts flow in a suspended dimension. For this reason, I repropose the characters who have transmitted an example of greatness capable of surviving even today, right under the water, timeless.”