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It is with their usual flair and chutzpah that OLYVIA ORIENTAL launch their autumn exhibition 'Flesh in Revolution' by the provocative young Chinese artist Li Bo at their gallery in St James's.
Li Bo depicts kinky young Chinese women in the boudoir, at their toilette, and in other such intimate spaces. He is brash in his use of materials; in particular his use of ropes to accentuate line is a unique way of giving texture and life to the skin of the luscious figures where feudal impressions of grace and decadence converge.
Dwelling on the curve, and celebrating the inherent sexiness, Li Bo is, he suggests, "celebrating the female form at its most natural; in repose". At a time where on one hand Ang Lee's last film 'Lust' was heavily edited in China, and suggestive adverts are banned in the country, China is at the same time awash with pornography. In post Olympic Beijing, the status of women in China and their civil liberties is still being questioned. Li Bo's images of contemporary Chinese women, whilst being easy on the eye, are also vaguely unsettling for this reason.
