invisible, man.

[VirusType2]

At first glance, this may look like a photograph of shelves in a supermarket. [actually, it is. -V] But look more closely and you may see a man painstakingly painted to blend in with the colourful background.

Chinese artist Liu Bolin has become world renowned for his camouflage art. Liu uses a team of two assistants to paint the camouflage onto him to make him invisible, and each photograph can take up to ten hours to set up.

In some cases, Liu has his assistants paint his body and then he remains extremely still until an unsuspecting passer-by happens to walk past.

He says he sees his work as a statement on the world and its anonymous inhabitants. "My urban camouflage paint series began after Suojia Village Art Campus where I was working was shut down by the Chinese government," said the 38-year-old artist. "My resistance to the force of governments made me experience the life of people with no social status, no job, no family, no income and this was the emotional reason I began my series of works. My pieces talk about the question of the social status of art in general. In my work the artist is hiding to restore his strength and to protect himself."

Liu Bolin poses in the Royal Box at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan

He has toured his work across the globe for the past five years, and is looking forward to a new exhibition at the Eli Klein Fine Art Gallery in New York in 2011.

Images used without permission.

Collection of 18 photos here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/pic...olins-amazing-camouflage-artwork.html?image=4

Invisible man is invisible, man.

 

[ríomhaire]

Heh. He winds up in the image dump every now and then.

 

[sixteenth]

That last one is awesome.

 

[VirusType2]

Heh. He winds up in the image dump every now and then.

Yeah, I almost put OLD in the thread title (to preempt naysayers), but I hadn't seen any of these pictures yet.

 

[Quixoticism]

I bet he likes to play Hidden: Source.

Awesome artwork, the amount of detail that goes into each set/'costume' is mind blowing.

 

[Warped]

huh...I thought this was a thread for invisible suits but this is just as cool

 

[Anthraxxx]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc7c-K5xHQ0

reminds me of...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGPf_h0pLzU

 

[VirusType2]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc7c-K5xHQ0

That was cool. Yeah it reminded me of that too. They've been working on stuff like this for at least two decades. I remember reading about it back then.