Liu Bolin?”the Invisible Art, the Repeat and the Lost

Bridge scathing Reading & Writing Assignment Liu Bolinthe Invisible Art, the Repeat and the Lost Liu Bolin, a Chinese artist who has mastered the power of invisibility and successfully apply it to gain an international reputation. As the most known invisible piece of music, Liu Bolin stands out by blending in. The Invisible Man includes contr oversial photographs much(prenominal) as the image of Liu Bolins face replacing that of Maos in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, and several scenes against iconic Chinese national monuments like the synagogue of Heaven and famed golf-club Dragon W in all ( concealing in the ity serial publication).Coming after the fame from concealment in the City series, Liu Bolin keep using exactly the akin form to fit on photographs of hiding in different cities, such as concealing in current York, hide in California, and Hiding in Italy. Even though Liu Bolins The Invisible Man series has won accolades for the art powerhouses and there is eulogy all over the international media, almost all of his photographs essentially accept the like techniques and concepts, and protest the history, culture and pride of his own country. The Infinite RepeatArtist Liu Bolin began his Hiding in the City series in 2005, after Chinese guard destroyed Suo Jia Cun, the Beijing artists village in which hed been working. With the help of assistants, he fastidiously key fruited his clothes, face, and hair to blend into the context of a demolished studio. Since then, the so-called Invisible Man has photographed himself fading into a variety of backgrounds all over Beijing and few(prenominal) other cities. Spot him embedded in a Cultural Revolution slogan painted on a wall, or spy him within tiers of supermarket shelves stocked with soft drinks.The process of all these deeds has never been changed since 2005 Liu stands still for hours as his assistants paint him to match his surroundings, which helps him to disappear in the scene. And things be came even mindless when Liu Bolin blended himself in impertinently York, California and Europe. He is Just a tourist, who takes pictures as he travels in different city, just now invisible as population always see in this works. When Im feeling at Liu Bolins art works in the exhibition at Eli Klein beauteous Art, New York, I feel like I was lingering in a small circle and could non get out.I was drowned in the many fell-alike photos, which have extremely similar backgrounds, scenes, mood, colors, subjects, and the same(p) personLiu Bolin, who is the artist himself. In the series Dragon Panel, there are nine photographs of Liu Bolin blending into the dour wall witn traditional Chinese dragon sculptures . Besides the ditterent colors of the paint coating and the movements of the dragons, which is literally not the point, all of these photos have the same perspective, same lights, same size and same Liu Bolin blending in at the same position in each photo.Its really easy to te ll that many of his works are Just repeat of himself. He painted himself to hand in the magazine rack in Beijing (2011) and New York (2013). If I have to say there is something different, it would be the languages on the magazines when people typeface at the photos very close. Super market seems like another(prenominal) providential place for Liu Bolin as he painted himself so many measure to blend in soft drinks, fast noodles, toys, and vegetables which happened in different eld since 2009. There is a photo named in front of red move over (2006) caught my eyes in which he is blending in Chinese field Flag. Not surprise to me, in 2007, he blended three families, which look similar, into the same backgroundthe Chinese national flag, and named those work family. At the same year, he created another work using American national flag and named it American National flag. Single countries cant satisfy Liu, in 2008, he created another work name UN flag using the UN flag. A few exampl es Hiding in the City series, the Dragon Panel 2010, 4 of 9 Magazine Rack, form Hiding in New York 2013 and Hiding in the City 2011 Super Market from Hiding in the City series 2011, 2010, and 2009Cereal, Made in china, and Panda, Hiding in New York series 2013 In front of Red Flag and Family, Hidng in the City series 2006, 2007 The American National Flag and the UN flag, Hidng in the City 2007 and 2008 The very important crash of Liu Bolins works is silently against the iconic Chinese national monuments like the Temple of Heaven, the Great Wall, the Palace Museum and famed Nine Dragon Wall (hiding in the city series). He had photographed himself to all over the scenic spots and historical sites where represents the term-honored istory and culture of China and are the treasure and pride for an quaint civilization.The concept is as still as the form, he wants to compel people to ponder the contentious relationship between the individual and society by silently commenting on moder n sociopolitical conditions in China, because l was a vacuous person, according to society, Liu says. By repeating the same techniques and subjects in almost all of his photographs, Liu Bolin is well playing the hero of opening Chinas national identity and at the same time for tacit protest against the government, which Just caters to the values of the estern world.Its actually not a new trick to capture the attention of art moguls, spectators and critics for some artists who cannot get social recognition by the mainstream culture in their countries or communities. Recently, this invisible man who cannot even speak a complete fourth dimension in English seems like living a pretty secure life out of his country. In most of the interviews, Liu expresses so many measure about how hard it is for people like him to survive in China and his meaningless position in that society.However, as long as I was born in China nd raised there for 20 years, his experience most sounds like a stor y of a representative loser who got above himself with advanced degrees but has no ability to line up to the real world after graduation. Just as what he verbalize in an interview (his words were translated), after graduating from school, for a long time I had no family, no Job and no love in my life. During those four years without love and income, I felt I had been dumped by this society and that I had no position within it. I was meaningless in this environment.