Mr.Bambii (Chinese - VietNamese b.1993) is a multimedia artist who is based in Ho Chi Minh city, Viet Nam.
Originally a poet, he soon turn to performance art as a decision to live out the body of his poetry.
During the following years in his career, Mr.bambii settle into sculpting as a new platform. to landscape fully his emotive imagery poem.
As a performance artist, aside from solo stages he often working with other artists of different medium (Poets, Sound artist, Musicians, Contemporary dancers, Performance artist, Opera actor & stunt performers..) for collaborate of poetry writing on different subjects (lyricists, sound piece, videos work, short film..) On Occasional, his stage also offer engagement with attendance audience as part of the performance. Mr.Bambii tend to expand his writing beyond the poetic frame of time and space. His poems is a formula of bending places of certain timeless events with the undercurrents abusive acts of mankind in the relation with nature, capture a point of view under the gaze of other species.
To ideally keep a piece of poem existing in the material world, wax has been features as the main sculpting material of Mr.Bambii to embody the landscape for his visual poetry.
The deconstruct process of candles, start as a solid substance before melt into liquid due. to a meet up with fire, now growing firmly again after being greeted. by air, reconstruct into a new mold, transparent, colorless, frozen in space, untouched by time, carry all the surrounding elements held together inside one single piece.
“I do art as if it is the most natural thing for me to be doing. I know that I was born an artist, as I know that I was born a gay men.” - Mr.Bambii.
Beside being a poet, sculptor, and performing, he also features in the art as: Art spaces founder, Art collector, Art dealer, Exhibition curator, Exhibition producer, Art director, Independent curator, Architecture, Interior designer, Jewelry & Garment designer, Set designer, Window designer for other projects.
In 2019, Mr.Bambii founded the contemporary underground art space 289e - 289e had launch more than 100+ Art shows and more than 15 Exhibitions from numerous medium artists & young creative before closing due to Covid-19 in 2021. The New York Times also wrote about the space in an article 289e .
During 2022, He founded Ao Hõi Fine Art Museum. A foundation of art conservation and exhibition; sharing and preserving one of a kind artworks.
Contact:
email - mrbambii@yahoo.com
twitter - twitter.com/miisterbambii
tumblr - mr-bambii.tumblr.com