David Rosenberg Li Yongzheng is an artist of large desert areas. He draws his inspiration far from the crowds, outside the walls of his studio. This results in a singular quality of expression that clashes...

Tian Meng: What kind of opportunity allowed you to start thinking about creating the work Border? Li Yongzheng: the starting point of the Border series is the work I did in 2015, Defend Our Nation. At that time,...

Red Ruins, Absurd Realities—On Li Yongzheng’s Art Feng Boyi Li Yongzheng is an artist focusing on problematic issues and hardships. These questions of hardship are social ones drawing much discussion. They are not questions having to do...

Politics as Sensibility—On Works by Li Yongzheng by: Lv Peng  “This sort of subjectivization is a political process of determining universal precepts: We are all equal, each having come to change the aesthetic coordinates of community. Democracy,...

Li Yongzheng on flying under the political radar   Michael Young Whether Chinese conceptual artist Li Yongzheng (b1971) sees himself as a political artist is an interesting if somewhat moot point. In his work which ranges from...

Li Yongzheng: Investigating Methods of Response Text: Lan Qingwei Li Yongzheng’s artworks engage with social issues, but I still think of him as a conceptual artist first, interventionist second. His artworks transcend ideologies. Every artist has...

Imagining Death… Text/Du Xiyun “I don’t believe in , because you’re not around to know it happened. I can’t say anything because I’m not prepared for it.” -Andy Warhol According to media reports, on June 9, 2015,...

Legend But as gold dances through sky, it brings me to song—Mandelstam 1 Singing is one way to move through the world. Birds sing from treetops. Though a ginko forest isn’t really a forest, it’s a district...

Exhibition: Art in Mobile Internet: Brick Relay Curator: Du Xiyun Artist: Li Yongzheng, Liangfeng, Wang Hong, Yang Jie, Jiang Feng, Li Yongkai,Gong Jian, Cao Shufeng, Liang Kegang, Liu Qiming, Jinzi,Bailei, Du Xia, Yin Xiaolong, Xu Jialin, Hu...