The eye is fooled to see a normal sculpture made of porcelain
or gypsum. But in reality is no more than sculptured paper. The ingenious
Beijing artist Li Hongbo carved thousands of layers of soft white paper into busts,
skulls, and human forms.
Roman Youth, 2013
A book editor and designer, the artist became fascinated by
traditional Chinese toys and festive decorations known as paper gourds made
from glued layers of thin paper which can be stored flat but then opened to
reveal a flower or other shape.
He applied the same honeycomb-like paper
structure to much larger human forms resulting in these highly flexible
sculptures.
The “block” from which each sculpture is carved is composed
of thousands of sheets of paper, each glued, one at a time, in a precise and delicate
pattern of stripes. When lifted the pattern relieves itself, expanding like an accordion.
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