36. “The attitude of the artist is more important than the content of
the creation. It’s life’s struggles, not necessarily artistic skills,
that touch people. The process of each life struggle is what
we call art, regardless of its form.”
– Liu Bolin
37. LIU Bolin
• born Shandong province in
1973
• BFA, Shandong College of
Arts in 1995 and his
• MFA, from the Central
Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing
in 2001.
• His best-known works are from
his "Hiding in the City" series;
photographic works that began
as performance art in 2005.
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44. Liu Bolin, painting designer
Jean-Paul Gaultier with his
fashions in a spread for
Harper’s Bazaar
45. Julian Melchiorri, a graduate student at Royal College of Art, London, UK,
holding a synthetic leaf he engineered by injecting living chloroplasts into
silk tissue, 2014
Editor's Notes
Pierre Huyghe Chantier Barbès-Rochechouart Billboard, Paris 1994. Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery.