Flora Bigai Arte Contemporanea exhibits for the first time in Italy a solo exhibition by Li Hongbo, A Tribute to Classics.

The artist creates amazing sculptures and installations with the use of paper. Li Hongbo works on a strange and at the same time obvious contradiction: classical art and its fragility. There is an Eastern paper tradition, which Li Hongbo constantly brings into vogue and elaborates in his works, even in the form of large installations.

He is aware that paper is brittle, that it tears and breaks, that it is much more difficult to maintain than marble and bronze, and that it is even more brittle than plaster. He discovers its strength in its own instability.

Li Hongbo is committed to "recreating" absolute icons of classicism. If we then think about how the art of cheaply "copying", reproducing and hyper-producing images and objects taken from the West is generally attributed to China, then Li Hongbo's challenge appears even more intelligent and provocative.