Luo Li Rong

We could admire for hours on end Luo Li Rong's contemporary sculptures! Luo Li Rong is a Chinese artist living in Belgium; she began sculpting early, so it was no surprise that she excelled during her studies at the Beijing Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), where she worked mainly with figurative sculpture. She is also a member of the studio of the great artist Zon Jiabao. Although influenced by the great masters of art history, her work is perfectly contemporary.

The artist is mainly inspired by European Renaissance and baroque artists. We can easily recognize the graceful female bodies, the fluid drapery that embraces the skin as if it was wet, characteristic of Renaissance sculpture.

Her creations are not mere beige or brown sculptures, nor are they clay sculptures like they may seem... No, they are bronze masterpieces. They are realistic, but the women depicted seem to come from another world, a higher dimension. They are perched on clouds, hold raindrops in their palms and the wind seems to blow their long elegant dresses. They also impress by their presence since they are most often full-sized. 

Like Auguste Rodin, the artist chose to work with bronze. She tries to get as close as possible to her model and wants her work to "become one with the model she imagines". That is why her pieces are so detailed.

Luo Li Rong's remarkable works of art have won her numerous public commissions, the most notable being a commission for a monumental statue for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.