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Li Hongbo at Klein Sun Gallery

Beijing-based artist Li Hongbo’s installation at Klein Sun Gallery creates a powerful creature from prosaic materials, if you interpret a snaking line of giant binder clips as a dragon. Textbooks flap like birds in the air above, pave a pathway below, and are carved into the shape of students at desks in the back of the gallery, all begging the question of how education might have the power to shape a society. (In Chelsea through Feb 13th).

 Li Hongbo, installation view of ‘Textbooks’ at Klein Sun Gallery, January 2016.

Li Hongbo at Klein Sun Gallery (part II)

Chelsea newcomer Klein Sun Gallery is giving visitors who loved the debut of Chinese sculptor Li Hongbo’s paper sculptures a treat. Extended to March 22nd, the exhibition has been rehung with new, larger sculptures including these two female figures constructed of paper carefully glued together sheet by sheet then carved with hand tools by the artist.

Li Hongbo, installation view at Klein Sun Gallery, Chelsea, March 2014.

Li Hongbo at Klein Sun Gallery

Beijing-based artist Li Hongbo has applied the concept behind Chinese paper gourd decorations – made of paper glued together – to classical sculpture to shocking effect in his latest sculpture series at Chelsea newcomer Klein Sun Gallery.  What at first appear to be marble sculptures reveal themselves to be flexible stacks of paper when activated by a gallery staff member.  (Through March 2nd).  

Li Hongbo, Bust of Marseilles, paper, 23 5/8 x 14 1/8 x 13 ¾ inches, ed of 2, 2012.