Here ‘Art Hacker’, classical masterpieces with canvases of camouflaged human bodies by Liu Bolin
‘Art Hacker’, name of masterpiece of the world-renowned Chinese artist was available on Kleinsungallery, as a solo exhibition.
The exhibition marks Liu Bolin’s shift towards the virtual world, exploring this new territory artistically through Post-Internet Art.
This new body of work consists of appropriations of classical Masterpieces, da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, Picasso’s Guernica, juxtaposed with a photograph of the devastating impact of the Tianjin explosions.
“Using complicated and precise hand-painted camouflage, Liu Bolin painstakingly recreates these images with scores of human subjects as his canvas. Through various methods, Liu Bolin's new photographs have replaced the three subjects on numerous websites, which were targeted with image-search results on Google and Baidu, thus realizing the Hacker project”, Kleinsungallery read.
By recreating the imagery of human suffering and ravage of war symbolized in the painting Guernica, Liu Bolin’s relives the history of the Spanish civil war, making a plea for humanity and freedom. In Mona Lisa (2016), the artist imbeds himself into the masterpiece as well as its historical legacy.
