Liu Bolin returns with latest work at the Eli Klein Fine Art

They may look like plain old photographs of road sides and supermarkets, but these meticulous images take hours to construct.

It is the latest series of camouflage trickery unveiled by artist Liu Bolin, or 'the invisible man', who made his name blending into the background of everyday scenes.


The new shots, now exhibited at the Eli Klein Fine Art gallery in New York, shows him melting into shelves packed with soft toys, fruit and vegetables, and a magazine rack.

The 40-year-old, who has spent years perfecting the art, says the images are a statement of his role in society.


Mr Bolin, who is also a sculptor and painter, goes through swathes of clothes as he smears them with paint for each image.

And his friends have even become accustomed to him enlisting their help to conjure up the spell-binding images.


In one of his latest snaps, Mr Bolin blends into a huge billboard showing three females in military style uniforms parade across a square.

In another, he manages to disappear into the grey of a a huge aircraft carrier docked in New York.

A third shows him camouflaged into a rack of magazines - making it hard to see where they end and he begins.

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