THE INVISIBLE MAN'S WORKSHOP DESTROYED

Liu Bolin

This week the workshop of Chinese artist and photographer Liu Boin, known as "the invisible man" has been destroyed once again, allegedly by the Chinese government. This happens again to the artist, who in his beginnings as a sculptor, suffered in 2005 the expropriation and destruction of his workshop, due to this Bolin would photograph his first self-portrait in front of its ruins, and his well-known series "Urban Camouflages" was born. , marking a before and after in the artist's work.

 

At Marión Art Gallery we are honored to have in our collection this iconic photograph where you can see Liu Bolin in front of the ruins of what was his first workshop.

 


 

August 27, 2020
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