"Facination" by Sebastian Bieniek (B1EN1EK), 2014

Sebastian Bieniek is an artist who started his career at the Kunsthaus Tacheles 1998.

He workes with painting, conceptual art and photography.

"Facination" is a series of paintings by Sebastian Bieniek (B1EN1EK) from the oeuvre of BieniekFace-Painting (Bieniek-Face).

The first painting was created in 2014. Meanwhile the series contains 42 overpainted paintings, photographs and LP's. The size of the artworks is verious and also the medium.

Bieniek also worked on an BieniekFace oeuvre of photographs.

"Facination No. 1"

"Facination No. 2"

"Facination No. 3"

"Facination No. 4"

"Facination No. 5"

"Facination No. 6"

"Facination No. 7"

"Facination No. 8"

"Facination No. 9"

Ghost, Painting, Gemälde, Geist, Seele, Duscha, Soul, The painter of the soul, der Maler der Seele, Malarz dusczy, Bieniek, Berlin, deutscher,

In the 2014 painting „The Guardian Angel“ (also titled *Facination No. 9*) by Sebastian Bieniek, a figure that appears to be from another world places its arm around another figure; together, they merge into an aura-like form that becomes part of the background. This evokes the Russian word for the soul, *dusha*—a term that links the soul with air (or "ether," as it would have been called before the concept of "nothingness" was invented) and everything related to air, as well as with the spirit and the breath. It is not without reason that Bieniek is regarded as the painter of the soul—an artist who seeks to visualize and depict things that are otherwise invisible to the eye. Do fate, predestination, spirits, and guardian angels exist? The answer seems to lie hidden within Bieniek’s paintings.

"Facination No. 10"