{"id":557,"date":"2015-03-17T10:49:48","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T10:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.galerieloft.com\/artist\/li-lihong-2\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T17:48:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T17:48:40","slug":"li-lihong","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/preprod.galerieloft.com\/en\/artists\/li-lihong\/","title":{"rendered":"Li Lihong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Born in 1974 in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, China, Li Lihong graduated in 1996 from the <em>Academy of Arts and Design<\/em>, Tsinghua University of Beijing, and then in 2005 earned a MFA from the <em>Jingdezhen Ceramics Institute<\/em>. He is now a professor of Chinese porcelain work at Fudan University in Shanghai, living and creating in this city.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">A skillful Chinese ceramic artist, he comes indeed from a village well-known for the production of the Royal china porcelain for hundreds of years, where he learned the art of ceramics alongside the Grand Master Qin Xiling. Li Lihong gives a contemporary touch to traditionally painted china, mimicking the shapes of recognizable brands\u2019 logos. His statement is univocal and strong: Western consumerism, in a globalised form, has become integrated into Chinese culture, which is in struggle to preserve its integrity and savoir-faire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">However, the tedious and difficult process of production and the fine detailing on the painted glazes counter this blatancy. Li Lihong explores this contrast, a very contemporary Chinese attitude toward the traditional arts. Moreover, the frailty of his artworks and the preciousness of their material add another contrast to the cheapness and ephemerality of mass production and consumption.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Li Lihong has been showing his work regularly in China and other Asian countries for many years, in ceramics exhibitions and at biennials, as well as in many personal or collective exhibitions around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born in 1974 in Jingdezhen, a city that has been considered for centuries as the world capital of porcelain, LI LIHONG started his training of the arts of ceramics at a very young age under the supervision of the great master Qin Xiling. Even if his work finds inspiration in the traditional royal porcelains, that have made the reputation of his village, Li Lihong conceives his works with a completely contemporary approach. He reinvents Chinese porcelain in a radical manner; after having taken in all the different international influences that the Chinese assimilated after the implantation on their territory of worldwide firms such as Coca-Cola or Mac Donald\u2019s in the 1980\u2019s. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1160,"template":"","artist_cat":[21],"class_list":["post-557","artist","type-artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","artist_cat-sculptor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preprod.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preprod.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preprod.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artist"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preprod.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preprod.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preprod.galerieloft.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist_cat?post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}