A curation by Marcos Felinto, founder and curator at 3.gallery - Painting in blue is a bold choice. Blue does not sit quietly inside an image. It takes over. It steals the scene, amplifies everything around it, and insists on being noticed. Even in small doses, it shifts the atmosphere. In large fields, it becomes almost infinite. That is why working with blue is never as simple as it seems. A single brushstroke can feel decisive, even when the subject is ordinary. Blue belongs to everyday life, familiar and close, yet in painting it often becomes something else: distance, depth, coolness, calm, tension, desire. It can soothe, but it can also dominate. Strange Blue gathers paintings that embrace this risk. Works in which blue is not merely a palette choice, but a force that shapes the image, the mood, and the viewer’s attention. And there is one decisive point. Blue can live in a small detail or take the lead as the central element. It can act as continuity, as atmosphere, as the ground that holds everything together. But it never goes unnoticed. It asserts itself. It is presence.