July 23rd, 2009 
Spooky 
35-year-old Liu Bolin, from Shandong, China, manages to camouflage himself in any surroundings, no matter how difficult they might be.
Liu works on a single photo for up to 10 hours at a time, to make sure he gets it just right, but he achieves the right effect: sometimes passers-by don’t even realize he is there until he moves.
The talented Liu Bolin says his art is a protest against the actions of the Government, who shut down his art studio in 2005 and persecutes artists. It’s about not fitting into modern society. Despite problems with Chinese authorities, Liu’s works are appreciated at an international level.
Photos by CATERS NEWS and Liu Bolin
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Thirth picture counted from bottom doesn’t look ‘real’. You can see paint on his clothes xD
Rest is amazing!!
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This man deserves a prize…
What a patience!!!
Great stuff! I’ll be looking at this a lot. lowell
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very neat!!!!
Interestiung case.
Intellectual property theft.
A Chinese artists steals an idea of a French artist. Ironically the essential idea of this art work is about copy imitation and getting invisible.
Bottom line: nothing new under the sun
(Stephen Jay Gould)
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i would very much like to communicate with you, i dont speak chinese but can use translator unless you speak english……great pleasure in seeing your art for the first time today, contact me if you like, gallo
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invisible man you did a great job on those paintings. they ROCK!!!!
all that time and hard work paid off!
I saw an exhibition of his work last summer in Shanghai and was blown away. That show was one of the first ones I saw there, but it’s still my favorite. Kudos to him for being able to keep that exhibition up for so long without being shut down by the government.
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There’s a British artist who did something similar. See my post at http://worddreams.wordpress.com/2009/05/05/metamaterials-and-an-invisibility-cloak/. Is this a new genre of art?
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Wow… this guy is incredible!
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