2014-04-08
Chinese artist Liu Bolin paints his body to camouflage into urban environments. His first retrospective opens in the U.K. this week.
Chinese artist Liu Bolin is known in the art world as "the Invisible Man" because of his uncanny ability to use bodypaint to camouflage into everything from grocery store aisle to library stacks to gun racks. Bolin is a master of disguise, but he isn't merely interested in neat optical illusions--rather, he uses his work to illustrate the oppression of artists and citizens in China, who are frequently silenced by the government. His first U.K. solo exhibition, The Heroic Apparition, opens this week at London's Scream Gallery.
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