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Chen is known for using books, newspapers, magazines and other material that has been discarded as the medium for creating his sculpture. This act of recycling paper-based material informs Chen’s work, and the figures he creates are of an odd and extraordinary beauty.
Bought from trash collectors or gathered from the street, the outdated reflections of modern life, snatched from extinction, are recycled destroying nothing for his art. Buddha faces, Aztec and Chinese Warriors, the human figure, land maps and entire rooms are magically created out of the discards from our “paper society.”
Long-Bin Chen was born in Taiwan where he presently resides, after having lived and studied in New York in the nineties. The themes of the convergence of Chinese and American cultures and notions of consumerism are central to his work. Chen has received many prizes, awards and international grants as well as exhibited internationally.