Liu Bolin “Hiding in the City” Exhibition @ Galerie Paris-Beijing

Liu Bolin, Hiding in the City – Sunflower, 2012 Courtesy of the artist

Liu Bolin, Hiding in New York No. 8 – Cereal, 2013 Courtesy of the artist

Liu Bolin (2010) Hiding in the City 88 – Saw Mill

After Liu Bolin watched the village where he worked bulldozed by the Chinese government, he created his series Hiding in the City. In the series, Bolin meticulously paints himself to blend in with landscapes as diverse as the grocery store to the Great Wall of China. In this way, he comments on the invisibility of artists within a society that fails to protect them. The series was so prolific and popular that he expanded it to Venice as a comment on the history of art, and New York to tackle the relationship between man and the object he creates.

In 2012, he was asked to take part in a series with fashion designers Gaultier, Valentino, Lanvin and Missoni that was featured in the March 2012 issue of Harper’s Bazaar magazine.

-Claudia Brown

Liu Bolin collaboration with Angela Missoni from Harper’s Bazaar, 2012

Liu Bolin collaboration with Jean Paul Gaultier from Harper’s Bazaar, 2012