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  • ‘Invisible man’ artist hides in supermarket

    By Gaby Leslie | Yahoo! News – 4 hours ago  Edited Nick Garrett

    An artist best-known as the real-life invisible man has painted himself (or rather has had his brilliant artists paint him… errm, yep that’s right) again for a new photograph collection – this time against a supermarket shelf.Chinese-born Liu Bolin has mastered the art of camouflaging himself against a variety of backdrops and taking photos of the impressive results.
    The much acclaimed 38-year-old has travelled far and wide disguising himself across many surroundings, including a London phone box, a pile of bricks, the Beijing Olympic stadium, a Venetian canal and a graffiti-covered wall.
    Photo:PA

    A supermarket shelf may have been an odd choice of installation for the fine arts graduate, but he appears to blend naturally into the colourful stocked-up shelf of soda bottles and Pepsi cans.

    See Artist of the Month www.Artsight.wordpress.com
    The artwork entitled ‘Plasticizer’ was created to express his speechlessness at use of plasticizer in food additives.
    Photo:PA

    According to the artist, each photograph can take months of planning and the actual paint job can take up to ten hours.

    The new photographs are part of Bolin’s ‘Hiding in the City’ collection and are being exhibited at the Eli Klein Fine Art Gallery in NYC until 28 August.

  • Contemp Painted Italian Furniture

    Working with Tricia Guild and Mark Homewood at Designers Guild on a pioneering contemporary rustic collection changed not only my scope of practice but opened up a whole vista of opportunities for artists and designers.

    One off pieces are where my work is at. They have a wealth of stories embedded… the paint reflects the energy of the piece.

    By using traditional paint and manipulating the layers much as I do in restoration I made the surface of these pieces reflect their original history an age… yet Tricia wanted of course the colours of the moment: bright pure pigments, vitriol, copper sulfate, ceruleum, and combining this powerful colour palate with a final fine overlay of either watery egg white and chalk, or diluted, talc and damar varnish mix.  The surface became powdery and dry, exactly the chalky feel we wanted on the pastels yet stable.

    The final trick was to make the surface feel to the touch absolutely fine and silky – to belie its often craggy ‘driftwood’ appearance… this trick I will keep for another day!

    Living in Italy today I am sourcing 17th and 18th century country rustics for restoration and contemporary twists of colour and motif.

    The results are spectacular and entirely original.

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    Painted cupboard DG Nick Garrett for Designers Guild
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