Hiding Out in the Chinese Urban Landscape

This is a pretty badass artist that was featured a while back on Urban Prankster. Liu Bolin, an artist hailing from China, is definitely taking the local urban landscape to a new level in his art. Using the basic graffiti idea of the street as ultimate inspiration, he literally turns his subjects into the street. The detail of his work is amazing and breathtaking, and frankly a little haunting. There seems to be some deeper message about the Chinese government and how they view their citizens, and seemingly Bolin's take on that is a little bleak. But now matter how bleak his deeper message may be, the works are still crazy amazing.

As far as I can find, Bolin doesn't have a website of his own, and I can't even find any biographical information on him. Which may be his choice, or given the political nature of his work, it may be the Chinese governments. Who knows? But he is represented by a few galleries here in the US, but as it turns out ArtNet has the best selection of his work. I mean, if you can afford one, go for it. If not, just peep it anyway, because you will not be disappointed.



www.artnet.com/artist/425227158/liu-bolin.html

Also, the Asian Photography Blog has some pretty interesting stuff on it, so give that a quick once over as well. Twice if you like it!

www.chngyaohong.com/blog/photography/liu-bolin/