Li Hongjun – Removed
Exhibition Runs till Oct 29,2011
Monday – Sunday 10:00am – 7:00pm
Tel: 2368 1068 info@va-gallery.com
Through thirty years of shifting identities – farmer, cadre, artist – in the city and country, within systems and society, between the different stations of traditional and contemporary art, Li Hongjun uses his different identies – removed and returning.
Between Reality and fiction – Li Hongjun’s Paper Art
Li Hongjun’s works explore the properties contained in paper to express his observations and sensations of the world. His “Myself”, “Expansion”, “Drift Away” and other series used displaced paper, rotation and other methods to combine eastern and western methods of paper cutting, and expressed the distortion of man’s values after encounters with the reality of modern society. Today, his many years of work have given him an outstanding reputation as an installation artist, and he has been called by CAFA’s vice-president Xu Bing “an artist with Chinese folk wisdom”.