Heidi Cody
Long-Bin Chen is known for using books, newspapers, magazines, and other material that has been discarded as the medium for creating his sculptures. This act of recycling paper-based material informs Chen’s work; and the figures he creates are of an odd and extraordinary beauty. Buddha faces, Aztec and Chinese warriors, the human figure, land maps, and entire rooms are magically created out of discards from our “paper societyâ€. The artist was born in Taiwan where he presently resides, after having lived and studied in New York in the 90s. The theme of converging Chinese and American cultures is central to his work, as is the notion of consumerism that is widely exhibited in germany, Japan, and Hong Kong, as well as the United States and Taiwan.
