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Li Xiaochao 1968 Xianyang - Man with Trumpet - Clay. H. 18.5 cm. Signed on the underside with a press mark. Damaged. - Provenance: Europa-Galerie, Munich/Hannover, 2001. The work comes from the series "The White Deer Villages, " inspired by the novel Bailu yuan by the writer Chen Zhongshi. Li Xiaochao studied sculpture at the Art Academy in Xian from 1986 to 1989 before founding his studio in Xianyang (near Xi'an) in 1997. He investigated the lives of ordinary people in the countryside, from which he also originates. He began with genre scenes from the Central Plain of Shaanxi Province, painted on a hundred-meter-long horizontal scroll with ink. Since 1993, Li Xiaochao has been attempting to depict people and their archaic and multifaceted lives in his homeland, the Central Plain of Shaanxi Province, in several large-scale series of clay sculptures. The simple facial features of the figures, the artistically reduced-to-essentials, realistic design have deeply moved many Chinese. At his exhibition in Germany, the artist Li Xiaochao is looking for a way to exhibit his art to a wider audience, so that one can experience the past and present of human life in his homeland, where once the first Chinese emperor Qin Shihuang unified China. The National Fine Arts Museum of China has had a permanent exhibition of his works since 2008. .