{"id":40,"date":"2018-03-25T00:50:23","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T00:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artroute.com\/blog\/?p=40"},"modified":"2018-04-29T05:14:12","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T05:14:12","slug":"beijing-artist-uses-paper-in-unusual-way-amazing-flexible-paper-sculptures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/artroute.com\/blog\/beijing-artist-uses-paper-in-unusual-way-amazing-flexible-paper-sculptures\/","title":{"rendered":"Beijing artist amazing flexible paper sculptures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-dVvQNj_dio?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Beijing Artist Li Hongbo tricks the eye with sculptures that look like marble but are made of paper. <\/p>\n<p>Fascinated by what he describes as \u201cthe endless possibilities of paper,\u201d Li Hongbo collapses folk craft and high art in his beguiling sculptures and installations, made of thousands of individual sheets of this ancient material, paper.<\/p>\n<p>Li Hongbo\u2019s artwork may look like porcelain or gypsum sculptures at first, but that\u2019s only until he demonstrates how flexible they are. Beijing based artist, book designer and editor creates these busts and sculptures out of thousands of layers of glued thin paper. Hongbo builds the honeycomb-like structures by strategically placing the glue on each sheet of paper, and then gives the desired shape to it.<\/p>\n<p>The idea comes from traditional Chinese paper decorations and toys that are flat at first but when pulled, may be extended into a proper shape. Li\u2019s sculptures therefore work the other way round than the actual Chinese gourd toys, and transform from something fully shaped into something undefined and surrealistic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing Artist Li Hongbo tricks the eye with sculptures that look like marble but are made of paper. Fascinated by what he describes as \u201cthe endless possibilities of paper,\u201d Li Hongbo collapses folk craft and[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/artroute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/artroute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/artroute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artroute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artroute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/artroute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77,"href":"http:\/\/artroute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/artroute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artroute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artroute.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}