{"id":18006,"date":"2014-03-04T07:06:29","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T15:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=18006"},"modified":"2014-03-04T07:24:16","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T15:24:16","slug":"li-hongbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/04\/li-hongbo\/","title":{"rendered":"li hongbo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/lihongbo1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18008\" title=\"lihongbo1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/lihongbo1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/lihongbo1.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/lihongbo1-300x248.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/lihongbo2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18009\" title=\"lihongbo2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/lihongbo2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"2751\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/lihongbo3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18010\" title=\"lihongbo3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/lihongbo3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"773\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/lihongbo3.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/lihongbo3-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What?! Have you seen these? You might have&#8230; this work has been all over the interweb lately, and rightly so! What appear to be plaster busts are actually bendable\/stretchable sculptures made of tens of thousands of sheets of paper&#8230; sort of like giant paper slinkies&#8230; if slinkies were shaped like &#8216;David&#8217;! <\/p>\n<p>Chinese artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dominikmerschgallery.com\/Artist.aspx?id=92\" target=\"_blank\">Li Hongbo<\/a> is the man behind this work. Wondering how he does this? Well, here he is in action:<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gttdbqX4SWA?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ah. <em>Mazing!!!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you are in New York before March 22, you can see these works in person at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kleinsungallery.com\/exhibition\/60\/#!4128\">Klein Sun Gallery<\/a>, 525 West 22nd St, New York, NY.<\/p>\n<p>{via <a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Colossal<\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">, <\/span><a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.booooooom.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Booooooom<\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">, and <\/span><a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/dontpaniconline.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Don&#8217;t Panic Magazine<\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">}<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What?! Have you seen these? You might have&#8230; this work has been all over the interweb lately, and rightly so! What appear to be plaster busts are actually bendable\/stretchable sculptures made of tens of thousands of sheets of paper&#8230; sort of like giant paper slinkies&#8230; if slinkies were shaped like &#8216;David&#8217;! Chinese artist Li Hongbo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,185,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18006"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18006"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18039,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18006\/revisions\/18039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}