Li makes wearable porcelain costume and installation from ceramic shards coming from the Song, Ming, Yuan and Qing dynasties, which are sewn together on a leather undergarment. Some of his projects include a suit jacket and tie as well as a number of mid-length women’s dresses.

Tang Zehui (Curator)

November 1, 2013

at the Red Gate Gallery

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Fragments Connecting Cultures

Like all other chinese artists, Li Xiaofeng took a long and striving road of study and artistic practice. After graduating from Hubei Huanggang Normal College in last century, he came all the way to pursue further studies in Central Academy of Fine Arts and completed graduate courses in 2002.  Then, Just like all the others persistently going in for art, Li chose to stay in Beijing, over the away - flying years.

 However, Li Xiaofeng also spent as much the same time completely bresking away from the tie of academic art that he once diligently sought for, and cautiously keeping some certain distance from all the current trends of arts, which has been proved to be an entirely necessary and wise decision as an artist. It surely requires courage and preparation of cost for the tenacity. It seemed that Li Xiaofeng stayed a little bit marginalized, whick yet was able to be pregnant with regenerative force all the time.

 We are clearly aware of that " Chinese culture" is the basic breakthrough point in Li's works. It has been thought of a difficulty when it comes to culture, Li Xiaofeng,  however, has such a sense of mission for it, and the finds it a theoretic basis with beautiful name "Post Orientalism". Chinese landscape was always a major theme in his large number of paintings created in past. instead of simply copying, like some other contemporary artists, the landscape  in his creation has been melt into heart and then rearranged, thus his works are so unique that we can taste the modern flavor of poetic deram and super realism.