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Aw Guo at IfGoGo.com posted on “The invisible man in China,” a collection of photographs from contemporary Chinese artist Liu Bolin (en, zh).  There are a collection of 10 images at IfGoGo.com and many more at the artist’s site.

Invisible man and family in front of the Chinese flag:

Invisible man in front of demolished building:

Invisible man in front of Tiananmen:

(This one may be a bit sensitive!)

More photos at the IfGoGo.com post.

Artist Liu Bolin photo:

It seems that difficult-to-understand, intellectual commentary accompanies contemporary art around the world.  There as an excerpt of a translated article at Liu Bolin’s site.  Maybe this might help you interpret his work better (not sure it does for me…yet):

Chinese society is in her switching period which may be the sharpest one in the history of the worlds. As such as huge state, her rapid changes make great influence on the world and gain a huge echo, these also give a great incitement and inflict heavy damage on morality and mental of individuals in the country. The past is disappearing; no one knows how long the present could be. Fresh things are coming.

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These photos images works have collected languages of sculptures, paintings, images, constructions, decoration and drama(making up) in historical consciousness and how us a way of breaking away from those configurations. We say to ourselves and repeat, “Not on the scene” of objects when facing to these configurations. The subject has lost its weight and becomes disappeared as light smoke. Also the subject is transparent after it has been pulled up by root—and has been terribly stable. This makes the configurations and methods full of energy but without receiver, that means he could not discriminate the directions and makes the ruin abandoned.

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The past is disappearing; no one knows how long the present could be. Fresh things are coming. Some of us are as fearful as artists, but mostly we are cheering like children and shouting “How funny” together with the artists.

Contact info for Liu Bolin at his Website.