Who......... me? No..... I wouldnt know where to start. One can buy something that one love & bring it home. But serious art collecting is a total different thing. It's a serious affair- one that's complicated & no one really understand it....lol..... ok, only insiders maybe but many just pretend to know more than they really do, but.......
If you know nuts about art, no art background & I mean real art history you have to depend on the person who sells you the art , hopefully you get a real & quailified curator. And even if you so bump into one, he/she is still just on a mission to close the deal...hahha.... so you are really on your own from the start. It's easier collecting stamps....lol....
Wednesday, 28 November 2012
Friday, 2 November 2012
China's most interesting Artist & Painter :Liu Bolin aka the Invisible Man
Of all the Chinese Artists that have emerged in recent years. Ai weiwei seems to be the most prominent, but is he really known for his creative art or his political activism? We should all agree it's the latter. I'm not going to talk about him rather about a man called Liu Bolin aka the invisible man!
Never heard of him? Well you soon will. His art has taken the internet by storm. His work combine painting, installation, sculpture & photography into a repeated visual pattern so versatile that each image resonate with a different meaning- power, repression , suffering ,luxury.
His work takes hrs to prepare. Liu stands still as in meditation & his assistants turn him into canvas. They painted on him (body, face, clothes, hair), blending him into the surrounding. Often it's difficult to detect him after the work has been done, but Liu prefers not to just fade into the environment or scene he likes to move slightly so that people look (got it!!!!) & thus think about art!!!! His shtick is immediately identifiable! His art has since become phenomenon, and demand is booming.
Only about 7 years ago, he's a struggling artist living in Shandong Province. His village was demolished while he watched helplessly. That trauma help birthed his signature first invention : a picture of him standing in front of his destroyed home, his face & clothes painted so that he blend into the debris left behind by the demolition. He describe this as a silent conversation of the conflict between man and society- fates intertwined.
I like what he does, it's creative, smart & he delivers a message
Never heard of him? Well you soon will. His art has taken the internet by storm. His work combine painting, installation, sculpture & photography into a repeated visual pattern so versatile that each image resonate with a different meaning- power, repression , suffering ,luxury.
His work takes hrs to prepare. Liu stands still as in meditation & his assistants turn him into canvas. They painted on him (body, face, clothes, hair), blending him into the surrounding. Often it's difficult to detect him after the work has been done, but Liu prefers not to just fade into the environment or scene he likes to move slightly so that people look (got it!!!!) & thus think about art!!!! His shtick is immediately identifiable! His art has since become phenomenon, and demand is booming. Only about 7 years ago, he's a struggling artist living in Shandong Province. His village was demolished while he watched helplessly. That trauma help birthed his signature first invention : a picture of him standing in front of his destroyed home, his face & clothes painted so that he blend into the debris left behind by the demolition. He describe this as a silent conversation of the conflict between man and society- fates intertwined.
I like what he does, it's creative, smart & he delivers a message
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