Some urban art works by Liu Bolin

Hiding in the City. Dragon Series. Photograph. 118x150 cm. 2010

Hiding in the City No 2. 2005. Photograph

Hiding in the City No 3. 2005. Photograph

Hiding in New York. Tiles for America. Photograph. 118x150 cm. 2011

Hiding in the City. The Yellow River. Photograph. 118x150 cm. 2011

Pictures above from:

http://www.ekfineart.com/html/detail.asp?workinvnum=4634&artistname=Liu%20Bolin

Liu Bolin. Lost in Art

In 1903, Georg Simmel wrote ‘The Metropolis and Mental Life,’ postulating the emergence of a new urban lifestyle and a sharp discontinuity from life as man had known it. Overwhelmed by the onslaught of stimuli, the modern man must uphold a reserved—and what Simmel calls blasé—attitude as a means of self-preservation. To live in the metropolis was to maintain a safe distance from the churning of its gears, a spiritual separation and freedom from its calculating forces. So what does it take to get noticed in the city, to awaken the intrinsically unsympathetic dwellers of Simmel’s metropolis? For Chinese artist Liu Bolin, the answer is complete invisibility.

Excerpt and third picture from:

http://www.architizer.com/en_us/blog/dyn/40759/invisible-city-dwellers/