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Video: "The Invisible Artist" who creates paintings on people, as on canvases
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Since today many acts of civil protest in China remain strictly prohibited, the famous Chinese artist-photographer, master of the original creative camouflage of people, Liu Bolin invented a unique technique for expressing their own opinions and views on urgent problems of society. Working with his team of professionals, Bolin seems to dissolve himself and his employees in space, merging with the environment, which emphasizes that modern man is invisible and of little importance to government agencies and those in power.
With the help of his assistants, he organically fits into urban and natural landscapes, as well as supermarkets and various works of art. As a canvas, Bolin can stand, without moving, in one place for several hours against a chosen background, while assistants paint him from head to toe, trying to blend with the environment.
It was this technique that brought the artist worldwide fame. Liu Bolin created several series of photographs in which he completely merges with the surrounding space. At first glance, such an optical illusion looks like an ordinary photo, but if you look closely, you can see a person on it.
When creating artistic photographs that immerse the viewer in an atmosphere of anxiety and uncertainty, the artist does not use digital correction methods, the invisibility effect is achieved by meticulous camouflage imitating the background.
As mentioned above, almost all of the artist's works are devoted to topical problems of modern society. Thus, the art project "Hide in the City" held in Beijing in 2005 was an act of protest against the destruction of the international art camp of Suo Jia Kan.
Liu Bolin also implemented another art project in which he tried to draw public attention to the problems of air pollution in the capital of China and other major cities. This photo session was dedicated to the terrible smog, after which the level of pollution in Beijing reached a critical dangerous "red level", followed by an environmental disaster.
This is a kind of symbol of the Chinese population, which may soon begin to rapidly decrease in quantitative terms.
Liu Bolin's works are almost always filled with social problems and often have their own background. They become comprehensible to the viewer upon closer acquaintance with facts or events. For example, a series of photographs "Migrants", reflecting many people disguised against the background of the pier and rusty ships, is a reminder of the tragic event of 2013, when migrants from Africa, including six children, tried to swim to China and died literally a few meters from Lido beach. Few refugees who set off on a long voyage managed to reach the coast of China, most died on the way. And miraculously, the survivors, how weak and exhausted they were, that having practically reached the coast, they could not swim a distance of several meters and died.
An eerie spectacle was shown by Liu Bolin on the Lido beach, creating an installation of painted bodies, which, as if silent ghosts, would forever guard the rusty ships.
A few facts from the biography of the Chinese invisible artist
Artist Liu Bolin (born 1973) hails from Shandong province in China. He currently lives and works in Beijing. Bolin received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Shandong Provincial College of Arts in 1995 and his Master of Fine Arts from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 2001. Today, his unique photographs are successfully exhibited in museums and galleries around the world.
Recently, the artist has been working on reproductions of classic paintings on living people. The most popular painting is "Mona Lisa" by Leonardo da Vinci and "Guernica" by Pablo Picasso. Unlike previous works, the author used a group of people, on top of which the "camouflage" of the paintings was applied in detail, thereby forcing the person to practically dissolve.
Continuing the topic of contemporary art, which impresses with its unpredictability, read: Mathematics in the service of painting: Unique paintings from multi-colored threads by Anya Abakumova.
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