Venice Biennale 2013. Ai Wei Wei
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Liu Bolin: The invisible man | Video on TED.com →
Can a person disappear in plain sight? Thatâs the question Liu Bolinâs remarkable work seems to ask. The Beijing-based artist is sometimes called âThe Invisible Manâ because in nearly all his art, Bolin is front and center â and completely unseen. He aims to draw attention to social and political issues by dissolving into the background.
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Mat Collishaw
Sinners, 2012 (detail)
Oil on canvas
225 X 225cmWhen seen from a distance, these large-scale works appear to be abstract paintings constructed on a classic modernist grid; closer inspection reveals them to be scraps of advertisements for luxury goods culled from ‘lifestyle’ magazines like Tatler and Vogue. But this is only partially the case; they are in fact facsimiles of the precisely folded, origami-like ‘wraps’ used by drug dealers to package cocaine, complete with powdery traces of the narcotic.
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Theme: Linear by Peter Vidani
