Growing Hollow
Rooftop Area Artist
Artist Information
BIEN
1993 Born in Tokyo
2017 “Reborn-Art Festival” (Ishinomaki, Japan)
2017 “New Art Festival: 2017: 150 years of solitude” (Fukushima,Japan)
2018 “WOOZY WIZARD” BLOCKHOUSE, (Tokyo,Japan)
2018 “Rebel Without a Cause, I LOVE ART 14” Watari-um, (Tokyo,Japan)
2018 “Transforming Surroundings Suburb, Apartment complex” Yashio apartment complex, (Tokyo,Japan)
Born in Tokyo in 1993. BIEN’s works are based on drawing. He has been inspired by street culture, animation, and figurines. BIEN paints abstract paintings and makes installation works, inheriting various ways of expressing that represents these cultures. He tries to dissolve and reconstruct symbolic meanings.
[Comment by Selector]
Nohidden other side. In these honest holes sits the coexistence of innocence and freedom with roughness and desperation, as though a whole playground has been implanted there just as it is – even down to the sense of touch. These holes, that we forget we have ever touched, are also an expression of a sort of explosive status, the appearance of something that has exceeded threshold values. On the rooftop, as an example of this, sits an awkward-looking object. The styrofoam for transport in the crate has been unable to wait to be unpacked and, deforming itself, has summoned the figure of a monster.