
Learn with Li Tao and quickly improve your English painting skills
Are you moving to another country? Do you need to master the local language? Is language learning one of your interests, and would you like to become fluent in spoken English? With one-on-one private tutoring, each session lasts 45 minutes. Based on your budget, language level, and schedule, you can choose Li Tao.

Li Tao used to oblige himself to build within a chaotic 2.5D universe; he rummaged, stockpiled, and violently cut up found objects, showing only their facades—he held the ultimate authority to read these materials. We are familiar with this kind of power; it does not always reside in the artist’s dignity. If one were to erase all the characters from British children’s cartoons, what would remain is an erudite, benovelent, and humorous middle-aged male narrator—the voice of God in the BBC tradition, an exemplary representative of enlightened paternalism.
“Peppa is happy,” he said.

This time, Li Tao no longer fine-tunes the relationships between materials bit by bit. He confidently dishes out a model space; the industrial products remain as they are, though they have taken on a new form, with silver-gray geometric shapes serving as the basic components. This is unlike Li Tao’s previous works, yet not entirely different. In the past, he often manipulates the vast interiors of buildings as if they were paintings; this time, opening up spaces within the canvas is simply going down the same path in reverse: if things didn’t go smoothly, he’d stumble from the diaphragm to the pharynx; if they did, he’d follow the bathroom drain to Holloway’s Emirates Stadium, and finally enter the Scrovegni Chapel. Li Tao, the observer in the two-dimensional vector animation, does not say “Go to sleep, Makka Pakka,” because he finds that not only can he not control the lives of the garden babies, he is even somewhat at a loss regarding his own life.

Your friend Li Tao has just moved to the UK. He needs to take English classes to pass the immigration exam, but he’s not sure what kind of materials would be best for him. His children aren’t home today, so please write a letter to the bookstore on Li Tao’s behalf to ask what exactly is _____.
Li Tao was born in Henan, China in 1971, and is currently based in Beijing and London. His recent practice focuses on English painting and English bantering.
Li Tao: Must Have Had Gone to the Public Bath 2026.4.30-7.30
