Video: Li Xiaofeng Porcelain Clothes
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Chinese artisan Li Xiaofeng creates unique and extravagant "porcelain clothes" from shards of bowls and dinner plates. What is most surprising in his work is that the dresses and suits "sewn" by him can be worn!
Li Xiaofeng, a 43-year-old Beijing artist, creates clothes from traditional Chinese ceramics. His work is modern Chinese art, born from ancient traditions. He found a way to connect his creative activities with traditional Chinese art. In his art, this connection is literal: he sews pieces of china from the Chinese emperors of the Song Dynasty (420-479), Yuan (1279-1368), Ming (1368-1644) and Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) and strengthens porcelain robe on a leather frame. Some of his designs are blazers, mid-length women's dresses, ties. Ceramic outfits can be unbuttoned at the back or at the side and can be dressed like any other garment.
Xiaofeng's studio is full of crates of broken cymbals and other ceramic shards. Each piece of porcelain is sorted by age, color, date, shape before it is used to create the next piece of porcelain.
Li Xiaofeng was born in Hubei and attended the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, graduating in 2002.
Now the author's work can be seen at an exhibition at the Virginia Miller Gallery (Florida). The show runs until February 28, 2009.
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