As a founding member of the world renowned DMV collective (Da Mental Vaporz) BLO hit the urban art scene with the momentum of a freight train. His stylised figurative work was sweet and dark, cute and grotesque, and heavily influenced by his background in graffiti. A few years after moving from Paris to Berlin however, a shift emerged in his work. The figures and representational elements faded and a much more intuitive form of abstract art emerged, influenced heavily by the German art scene he found himself engulfed by. As BLO’s work changed, so did his name. In an effort to distance himself from an urban art scene that he no longer recognised himself in, he took on his birth name and as Claude BLO Ricci he cemented his place in the contemporary art world. From canvas work to murals and now even large public metal sculptures, Ricci is always pushing forward and branching into new arenas.
