ARTISTI > Liu Bolin

Liu Bolin (Shandong, 1973) has been called "the invisible man", having achieved international fame as the artist who has made camouflage his distinctive trait. Remaining motionless as a living sculpture, Bolin integrates his body with the context behind him –thanks to a careful body-painting– and finally makes himself photographed melted with the background.

Liu Bolin > artworks

Freedom in 2023
47,2 x 31,4 / 59 x 39,3 / 78,7 x 53,3 in
2023
Cod. 85
No war
47,2 x 35,4 / 59 x 44,3 in
2023
Cod. 84
Piazza della Signoria, Firenze
26,8 x 35,4 / 35,4 x 47,2 / 44,3 x 59 in
2022
Cod. 83
Sala degli Elementi, Palazzo Vecchio, Firenze
26,3 x 47,2 / 31,4 x 59 / 39,3 x 70,8 in
2022
Cod. 82
Sala Bianca, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze
26,8 x 35,4 / 35,4 x 47,2 / 44,3 x 59 in
2022
Cod. 81
Sala di Venere, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze
26,8 x 35,4 / 35,4 x 47,2 / 44,3 x 59 in
2022
Cod. 80
Biblioteca Marucelliana, Firenze
26,8 x 35,4 / 35,4 x 47,2 / 44,3 x 59 in
2022
Cod. 79
Sala della Niobe, Gallerie degli Uffizi, Firenze
26,8 x 35,4 / 35,4 x 47,2 / 44,3 x 59 in
2022
Cod. 78
In Russia Magazines
35,4 x 47,2 / 44,3 x 59 in
2012
Cod. 77
Hiding in the city - The Laid-off workers
51,2 x 63 in
2006
Cod. 76
Fruit Juices
26,8 x 35,4 / 35,4 x 47,2 / 44,3 x 59 in
2019
Cod. 74
Milan Cathedral
26,8 x 35,4 / 35,4 x 47,2 in
2019
Cod. 72
World Cultures, MUDEC, Milan
35,4 x 35,4 / 47,2 x 47,2
2019
Cod. 71
Pietà of Michelangelo, Sforza Castle, Milan
47,2 x 35,4 / 59 x 44,3 in
2019
Cod. 70
Moses, San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome
44,3 x 59 / 35,4 x 47,2 / 26,8 x 35,4 in
2018
Cod. 67
Hiding in Italy - Scalone d'Onore, Reggia di Caserta
35,4 x 47,2 / 26,8 x 35,4 in
2017
Cod. 62
Hiding in the city - GIAMMARCO AU 1168
44,3 x 59 / 35,4 x 47,2 in
2015
Cod. 58
Hiding in the city - The Hope
44,3 x 59 / 35,4 x 47,2 in
2015
Cod. 57
Target - Blue Europe
39,4 x 78,8 / 29,5 x 59 in
2015
Cod. 56
Target - Migrants
31,5 x 78,7 / 23,6 x 59 in
2015
Cod. 55
Target - Memory Day
59 x 78,7 / 44,3 x 59 in
2015
Cod. 54
Target - Future
39,4 x 78,8 / 29,5 x 59 in
2015
Cod. 53
Hiding in Italy - Scala della Ragione, Verona
46,8 × 46,8 in
2008
Cod. 5
Hiding in Italy - UE Flag
55 x 39,4 in
2008
Cod. 2
Installation
98,4 x 78,7 in
2008
Cod. 1

Liu Bolin > exhibitions

Liu Bolin. Visible/Invisible

From 15/05/2019 To 15/09/2020
Mudec Museum, Milan

La Forma Profonda del Reale

From 25/12/2019 To 25/12/2019

Liu Bolin. The Invisible Man

From 02/03/2018 To 01/07/2018
Exhibition's curator Raffaele Gavarro

Liu Bolin. Back to Italy

From 20/10/2017 To 10/05/2018

Liu Bolin. Migrants

From 23/01/2016 To 31/01/2016

2x10 Ten artists for our 20-year birthday

From 03/10/2015 To 31/01/2016

Liu Bolin. Fade in Italy

From 13/05/2014 To 21/05/2014

Liu Bolin. A Secret Tour

From 13/09/2012 To 11/11/2012
Exhibition's curator Raffaele Gavarro

Liu Bolin. Hiding in Italy

From 24/04/2010 To 30/06/2010

Liu Bolin. Hide and seek

From 08/11/2008 To 10/01/2009
Exhibition's curator Francesca Tarocco

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