Li Hongjun
Into Papers
PIFO New Art Gallery, 798 art district, Beijing
Li Hongjun has made sculptures of paper sheets. From bundles of papers shapes and faces appear. I was struck with awe when I discovered that each of these sculptures consists of hundreds of papers cut to fit perfectly in. Each paper is crucial, and a mistake in one paper would destroy the whole. Each head is a topographical landscape with each paper representing each height curve. Some heads are slightly distorted. Some heads are juxtaposed with the block of paper with a hole exactly matching the head.
