The Art of Camouflage by Liu Bolin
Meet Liu Bolin, the real-life Invisible Man from China, an artist with the ability to disappear in virtually any surroundings. It isn’t easy though – one single photo can takes up to 10 hours to prepare. Liu uses himself as a blank canvas, and with some help from an assistant, he paints his body to merge as seamlessly as possible with what is behind him.
1. Graffiti Wall
2. Road Block
3. Suo Jia Village – Morden China
4. Arles
5. Brick Wall
6. Chinese Garden
7. Shooting
8. Train
9. On The Ground
10. Ruins
11. USA Flag
12. Hiding In The City
13. On The Road
14. City Hiding
15. Provisional Wall
16. Steps
17. Car
18. Bricks
19. People’s Police
20. Government Finance information Board
21. Castelvecchio’s Bridge
22. City
23. Supermarket
24. Piazza San Marco
25.Teatro Alla Scala
26. Bird’s Nest
27. Telephone
28. Teatro Alla Scala
29. Duomo Di Milano
30. Forklifts
31. Venice
32. Venice #2
33. Brick Wall
While his camouflage artworks are really mind blowing, he’s here with a message: “The situation for artists in China is very difficult and the forced removal of the artist’s studio is in fact my direct inspiration of this series of photographs, Hiding In The City…I am standing, but there is a silent protest, the protest against the environment for the survival, the protest against the state.”
