Long-Bin Chen is an artist that uses Telephone Directory, newspapers, magazines and other discarded material in order to create his art.
Twisted Angel – done with books and wire
Reading Room sculptures
Long-Bin Chen was born in Taiwan and studied in New York in the 90 ‘s, and currently resides back in Taiwan. Converging Chinese and American cultures is the central theme to his work as well as consumerism. He also wants to emphasize how society is placing less value on books and more on emerging technologies.
Reading Room, Telephone Directory and plywood
His sculptures have an ancient look to them, and he creates many Buddha heads from phonebooks. For an example of what he is trying to show, the Buddha heads are designed as a symbolic container holding the names of all the people in the books, bringing them under Buddha¢s care.
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