Li Jingo

• Step into the captivating world of Li Jinguo's artistry. His unique art collection unveils the remarkable synergy between crystal resin and ink, where fluidity freezes into solid form, and time is suspended in the art of creation.

• Li Jinguo, after a decade of exploration, harnesses the transformative nature of crystal resin, capturing its fleeting shift from liquid to solid. Just as ink flows with precision, the resin dances in harmony, mirroring the essence of ink strokes. Each sculpture preserves that crucial moment when ink swirls into intricate patterns, held in suspension, revealing the artist's meticulous craftsmanship.

• Li Jinguo’s creative use of resin in sculptural works is well known. The recasting of classical Chinese elements or modern objects such as: plant life, plum blossom, Taihu scholar rocks, bags and music instruments in crystal resin gives birth to a unique visual expression of vitality. The artworks of Li Jinguo cater to a specific Oriental aesthetic. These unique sculptures exhibit a intricate connection between the dynamic and vivid texture of bright red ink and the controlled nature of Oriental symbols. The pieces blend elements of confrontation and harmony.

• 1978: Born in Chongqing, China

1998: Graduated from Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts

2005: Graduated from the Sculpture Department, Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), Beijing, China

Lives and works in Guangzhou and Beijing, China

• Awards & Prizes
2002: "Human Body" won the2nd prize of "excellent works exhibition of China Central Academy of Fine Arts".
2003: “Female body ”,“Nail hammer ” won the 3rd prize of “excellent works exhibition of China Central Academy of Fine Arts ”.
2005: "Mountain" was awarded the "The light of the College" Art Heritage Award in China Central Academy of Fine Arts.

• Publications
<35X35 Chinese Art Project> ，Copelouzos Family Art Museum, pp110-111,2019
<Timeout Beijing >, An Exclusive Interview with Li Jinguo ”，pp16-17,March 2013
<Dialogue of Volume >, China Youth Publishing Group, Wang Huangsheng,Li Gang (Editor),pp68-72, 2013
<Endless Variations >, Exhibition of teacher-student works,Wu Hong (Curator),pp60-61,2011.

• Exhibitions

Art Yī is the exclusive gallery of the artist in Brussels, Belgium.

2023: "Daydream", group exhibition, Art Yi gallery, Brussels, Belgium

2022 “Countdown Series 3”, Beijing,China
2021: “Art&Living ”, Choice of Living Space, Shenzhen, China

2020: “New works by artist Li Jinguo”, solo exhibition, Beijing, China
2020: “30 Days 30 Years” group exhibition, Beijing, China
2020: “New Year Special Exhibition ”, Beijing, China
2019: “Spring is coming”, Beijing, China

2018: "Drifting Ice.", solo exhibition,Beijing, China
2018: "Editions, Multiples and More...", Beijing, China

2017: "Gene", solo exhibition, Beijing, China
2017: "Red Gate on the Move ", Beijing, China
2016: "My Living Room", Beijing, China
2016: “Whiplash", Beijing, China

2015: "Ink", solo exhibition, Beijing, China
2015: “Reunion -Running", Beijing, China
2015: "Out of the box", Beijing, China
2014: “Surge Art Festival ”, MOMA,Beijing, China
2014: "First but not the Least", Empty Space, Beijing, China
2013 "Asian Young Artists Exhibition", Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2013: “Beijing Design Week ”,Caochangdi Community, Beijing, China
2012 "Artists from Affordable Art Beijing", Beijing, China
2012: “Surge Art Festival ”，River South Art Center, Shanghai,China
2011: "Endless Variations" an exhibition of students of Sui Jianguo, Beijing, China

• Art fairs
2019: ART CENTRAL Hongkong, China
2018: ART CENTRAL Hongkong, China
2017: SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY Art Fair, Australia
2016: ART CENTRAL Hongkong, China
2015: ART021 Shanghai, China
2013: Art Taipei, Taiwan China
2012: Affordable Art Beijing, China

• Creative notes from Li Jinguo

"I remember a documentary shot by a director who placed his camera at the head of a train. He proceeded to shoot the train’s entire journey continuously without any editing. It is said that this documentary broke a record in visual documentation. In fact, the feeling was simply of travelling by train whilst sitting on a sofa at home.

Two years ago, I moved part of my studio to Guangdong province. Each year, I would travel back and forward between Guangzhou and Beijing several times, sitting on the train for more than twenty hours each time. On these slow journeys my mind would turn to random thoughts, for example upon the nature of time. If I slept for five hours, these five hours felt like nothing. However, if I had not slept for the same five hours of the journey then I would have felt that I had experienced them. No matter what one does, time progresses forward, this is quite terrifying. We all experience time on a level playing field. For all of us, time is a relentless count down. Time is a never ending continuum-theory tells us so.

I have been researching crystal resin for ten years, in a flash of time it transforms from a liquid state to a solid. I use this specific quality in my sculptural works. The resin in its liquid state is like ink, and it moves precisely in the same way. Once the ink has swirled into a particular formation it is at that critical instant I freeze it. It is as though the ink is suspended in time.

Life is one long journey, the scenery flashes by, the end is inevitable. Nevertheless we may collect mements fondly. Time waits for no man, this is God’s tyranny."

Contemporary sculpture bag flower tree

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