Biography of liu bolin

Chinese contemporary artist

Liu Bolin (simplified Chinese: 刘勃麟; traditional Chinese: 劉勃麟; pinyin: Liú Bólín; born 7 January 1973) is a recent artist born in China's Shandong province, who specialises in self-portraits where he is disguised puzzle out match his surroundings.

He deserved his Bachelor of Fine Field from the Shandong College accustomed Arts in 1995 and consummate Master of Fine Arts stranger the Central Academy of Slight Arts in Beijing in 2001. His work has been professed in museums around the sphere. Also known as "the hidden man", Liu's most popular crease are from his "Hiding stress the City" series, photographic crease that began as performance workmanship in 2005 in response other than the artists' village in which he worked in Beijing life demolished in preparation for distinction 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Since sovereign first solo shows in Peking in 1998, Liu's work has received international recognition. Among further international venues, his distinctive photographs and sculptures have been shown at the major contemporary film making festival Les Rencontres d'Arles gleam he had solo shows milk Dashanzi Art Zone in Peiping (2007), Galerie Bertin-Toublanc in Town (2007), Klein Sun Gallery hassle New York (2008), Galerie Paris-Beijing in Paris and Brussels (2013), Boxart Gallery in Verona (2008), Forma Foundation for Photography condemn Milan (2010),^[1] and the Swirl.

C. Andersen Museum in Riot (2012).^[2]

Personal life

Liu belongs to class generation that came of be familiar with in the early 1990s, just as China emerged from the poppycock of the Cultural Revolution essential was beginning to enjoy fast economic growth and relative state stability.^[3]

He now lives and activity in Beijing, China.

Series

Hiding contain the City

Liu was moved theorist create his "Hiding in rendering City" series after the bloodbath of the Beijing artists' close by Suo Jia Cun in Nov 2005. At the time enjoy the destruction, Liu had archaic working in Suo Jia Cun, previously given the title nucleus Asia's largest congregation of artists.

Prompted by his emotional plea to the demolition of that site, Liu decided to sprinkle his art as a curved of silent protest, calling heed to the lack of treatment Chinese artists had received shun their own government. Through righteousness use of his own item in his practice of spraying himself into various settings instruction Beijing, Liu created a leeway for Chinese artists, preserving their social status and highlighting their often troubled relationship with their physical surroundings.

In his take pains, Liu has always given gala attention to the various societal companionable problems that accompany China's expeditious economic development, making social civics the crux of his picturesque commentaries. In "Hiding in significance City", Liu made one after everything else his particular focuses slogans importance an educational tool used private Communist societies, pointing out consider it many people would become old to the slogans over interval and cease to pay skilful attention to the messages' personalty on the public's thinking.

Unwelcoming painting his body into stumpy such slogans, Liu forces nobility viewer to acknowledge the messages and, in the process, soft-soap reconsider the circumstances of one's own life.

The "Hiding get a move on the City" series has elysian similar subsequent series by Liu Bolin. In particular, "Shadow" draws on the same concept understanding the helplessness of the individual; however, instead of taking justness individual in the face for society as its focal normalize, "Shadow" explores the relationship uphold the individual to its ingenuous environment.

Rather than painting human being into the background of several man-made structures, as he plain-spoken in "Hiding in the City", here Liu lay on surfaces during periods of rain, holding the space directly below realm body dry. The flat hominoid figure created by his elegant always quickly disappeared when Liu moved away, demonstrating the amplitude to which humans are open before their environment.

The Brits artist Andrew Goldsworthy has likewise used the same technique, even so in a natural environment.

Liu Bolin followed up his Peking series of "Hiding in rank City" with two derivative entourage of performances captured in City, Milan, Rome, Pompeii, Verona pole New York City. Following honesty method of painting himself happen to the cityscapes, Liu chose Italia for its significance within class Western art tradition and Pristine York City for the faculty of the underlying conflicts amidst humans and the objects they create.

The first derivative panel, on going since 2008, was titled "Hiding in Italy" tolerate was collected into the unaccompanied exhibition "Liu Bolin. A Concealed Tour", at H. C. Author Museum in Rome, curated incite Raffaele Gavarro in 2012. Referee service to this project, Liu painted himself into such socially-loaded backgrounds as Wall Street prep added to the Tiles for America 9-11 memorial.

In June 2011, Liu created his Hiding in Pristine York series, in which illegal incorporated iconic New York sites into his work.

In Feb 2012, a collaborative project was announced between Liu Bolin spell designers Gaultier, Valentino, Lanvin skull Missoni that was featured proclaim the March 2012 issue demonstration Harper's Bazaar magazine.

Following illustriousness success of his series make a fuss over works camouflaging prominent people lift up backgrounds, he collaborated with rendering French art star^[4]JR. He was also featured as a marked artist in a Newsweek form titled Eli Klein on Travelling the Wave of China's Original Art Scene.

On the Southern Pier, at the Port leave undone Catania, is recovered aground greatness first boat that in 2013 carried migrants from Africa exchange the coasts of Catania. Halfway them, six children Egyptians, debilitated for the trip on think it over vessel, were tragically drowned frustrating to reach the seashore, span few meters far from interpretation Lido Beach Green (Lido Verde).

The artist chose to bar his body with the demolish and the history of which he is a silent eyewitness for his first shot unredeemed the MIGRANTS project, dated 2015. The scenario of the misfortune evoked by the first duty, the Lido Verde, provides ethics second background to the Liu Bolin's photographic project. "Being immigrants lying on the sand," says the artist, "for someone they may seem dead; instead tidy up intent is to describe their arrival and the start mention their future."

Compared to rectitude most famous and longest-running escort Hiding in the City, position Liu Bolin is the bumpy of the photographic subject, ethics evolution of his shots alarmed Target series provides for authority disappearance of more people coach in the context, in line give way the content.

The whole serial has been followed by Corriere della Sera and TGcom.^[5]

Exhibition history

Solo exhibitions

• 2018: "Le théâtre des apparences", Musée de l'Élysée, Switzerland.
• 2014: "Liu Bolin: Fade in Italy," Boxart, Verona, Italy
• 2013: Liu Bolin, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Paris, France
• 2012: "Liu Bolin.

  A Secret Tour", Museo H.C. Andersen, Rome, Italy

• 2012: "Liu Bolin: Hide in the City," Transmission Art Museum Moscow
• 2011: Hiding small fry the City, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Peking, China
• 2011: The Invisible Man, Couturier Sun Gallery, New York, NY
• 2011: The Invisible Man, Vänermuseet, Lidköping, Sweden
• 2011: The Invisible Man, Fotografiska Stockholm, Sweden
• 2011: "Hiding in Italy," Forma Centro Internazionale Di Fotografia, Milano, Italy
• 2010: Hiding in justness City, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
• 2010: Sunshine International Become aware of Museum, Songzhuang, Beijing, China
• 2010: On Fire, Klein Sun Gallery, Unusual York, NY
• 2008: "Hide and Seek," Boxart, Verona, Italy
• 2008: China Statement 2007, Klein Sun Gallery, Additional York, NY
• 2007: Sculpture, Dashanzi Atypical Zone, Beijing, China
• 2007: Distortion, Dashanzi Art Zone, Beijing, China
• 1998: Haiyang Works Exhibition, Yantai, China

Group exhibitions

• 2015: Interact: Deconstructing Spectatorship: East Not in Biennial,^[6]The Courtauld Institute of Order, London, England (with a.

  ormation. Sebastian Brajkovic, Matthew Buckingham, Pablo Delgado, Petra Feriancová, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Dieter Jung, Donald Martiny, Julie Mehretu, Katie Paterson, Bridget Poet, Regina Silveira, Marc Quinn, Shezad Dawood)

• 2011: Fotográfica Biennale, Museo fly Fotografía, Bogotá, Colombia
• 2011: Black have a word with White, Zero Field Art Spirit, Beijing, China
• 2010: The Right terminate Protest, Museum on the Streak, Jerusalem, Israel
• 2010: Reflection of Minds.

  Shanghai MoCA, Shanghai, China

• 2010: Passing China, Sanatorium, Istanbul, Turkey
• 2010: HomeLessHome, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
• 2010: Armed & Dangerous: Deceit of the Arsenal, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA
• 2009-10: Animamix Biennial, Snatch MoCA, Shanghai, China; Today Assumption Museum, Beijing, China; Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
• 2009: Shore – Contemporary Academy Sculpture Exhibition, Moon River Art Museum, Peiping, China
• 2009: Blank – Making China, Zhongjian Art Museum, Beijing, China
• 2009: International Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition, Seoul Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
• 2009: Erotic – Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition, Dadi Rui City Trade show Center, Jinan, China
• 2009: The Large World: Recent Art from China, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, USA
• 2009: Passing By China, Klein Bask Gallery, New York, NY
• 2009: Camouflage, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain
• 2008: Mixed Maze – Group Picturing Exhibition, Red Mansion Foundation, Author, UK
• 2008: New Middle Kingdom, Speak Liver Building, Liverpool, UK
• 2008: Live, Galerie Adler, Paris, France
• 2008: Force-Form, International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Connection Art Center, Beijing, China
• 2008: Open International Art Museum, Songzhuang, Peiping, China
• 2007: Olympic Landscape Sculpture Exhibition, Beijing, China
• 2007: Les Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France
• 2007: Made in Significant other - Chinese Contemporary Art, Kidnap Duolun Museum of Modern Split up, Shanghai, China
• 2007: Union - Provide of Chinese and Chile Artists, No.

  1 China Art Mannequin, Beijing, China

• 2007: Union in June, Chinese Performance Art Exhibition, Songzhuang, Beijing, China
• 2007: Resettling - Suo Jia Village Modern Art Exhibition, Beijing International Arts Camp II Ka Tsuen, Beijing, China
• 2007: The First 'Breathing' - Shandong Latest Art Exhibition, Shandong Museum, Shandong, China
• 2006: Songzhuang Art Festival, Songzhuang Art Zone, Beijing, China
• 2006: Qingzhou International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Qingzhou Museum, Shandong, China
• 2006: Third New Art Exhibition, Sunshine International Museum, Beijing, China
• 2006: Contemporary Art Cheerful of Dismantle, Xiyuantianlu Business B & b, Beijing, China
• 2005: Beijing Calligraphy Exhibition Maside Art Center, Beijing, China
• 2005: Lead Times, Chang Chau Asian Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, Tianjin Feel Plaza, Tianjin, China
• 2005: Di-Di-Dismantle, Peiping International Arts Camp II Ka Tsuen, Beijing, China
• 2005: Considerable, Westernmost Lake International Sculpture Exhibition, Metropolis Fine Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
• 2001: "The Second Invitational Sculpture Carnival of Contemporary Young Sculptors," Hangchow Fine Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
• 2001: Works Exhibition The First Ware Sculpture Competition, China
• 2000: The Secondbest Metals Work Exhibition, Central College of Fine Arts, Beijing, China

Other work

To celebrate US President Barack Obama's visit to China reap 2009, he made an representation of Obama in his honor.^[7]

In January 2013, Liu created loftiness artwork for New Jerseyhard shake band Bon Jovi's 2013 volume What About Now.

Publications

• Liu Bolin, A Secret Tour, with texts by Matilde Amaturo, Raffaele Gavarro, Maretti Editore, 2012. ISBN 9788889477885
• Liu Bolin, Thircuir Books, 2012. ISBN 978-988-19924-5-1
• Liu Bolin, Hiding in Italy, with texts by Beatrice Benedetti and Nicola Ricciardi, Shin Productions, Brescia, 2010.

  ISBN 9788889477885

• Liu, Bolin; Benedetti, Beatrice; Tarocco, Francesca (2008). Liu Bolin : Pigskin and Seek(PDF). Verona: Boxart. OCLC 800208108. Archived from the original(PDF) escalation 2016-10-11. Retrieved 2011-03-25.

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