Name: The invisible man
Uploaded: 2013-05-15T14:44:26Z
Duration: 7 min 33 s
Description: Can a person disappear in plain sight? That's the question Liu Bolin's remarkable work seems to ask. The Beijing-based artist is sometimes called "The Invisible Man" because in nearly all his art, Bolin is front and center — and completely unseen. He aims to draw attention to social and political issues by dissolving into the background.

Can a person disappear in plain sight? That's the question Liu Bolin's remarkable work seems to ask. The Beijing-based artist is sometimes called "The Invisible Man" because in nearly all his art, Bolin is front and center — and completely unseen. He aims to draw attention to social and political issues by dissolving into the background.

Liu Bolin: The invisible man

The invisible man

Art as a mirror to society: Using invisibility, Liu Bolin challenges the interplay between civilization and its development.

Liu Bolin unveils the unseen: From workers laid off in China's economic shift to global warming's threat to Venice, art provokes thought.

No Photoshop, just precision: Bolin's art, a painstaking process of blending into backgrounds, spotlights issues without words.