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The Busan Biennale is a biannual international contemporary art show that integrated three different art events held in the city in 1998: the Busan Youth Biennale, the first biennale of Korea that was voluntarily organized by local artists in 1981; the Sea Art Festival, an environmental art festival launched in 1987 with the sea serving as a backdrop; and the Busan International Outdoor Sculpture Symposium that was first held in 1991. The biennale was previously called the Pusan International Contemporary Art Festival (PICAF) before it launched.

The biennale has its own unique attribute in that it was formed not out of any political logic or need but rather the pure force of local Busan artists’ will and their voluntary participation. Even to this day their interest in Busan's culture and its experimental nature has been the key foundation for shaping the biennale’s identity.

This biennale is the only one like it in the world that was established through an integration of three types of art events such as a Contemporary Art Exhibition, Sculpture Symposium, and Sea Art Festival. The Sculpture Symposium in particular was deemed to be a successful public art event, the results of which were installed throughout the city and dedicated to revitalizing cultural communication with citizens. The networks formed through the event have assumed a crucial role in introducing and expanding domestic art overseas and leading the development of local culture for globalized cultural communication. Founded 38 years ago, the biennale aims to popularize contemporary art and achieve art in everyday life by providing a platform for interchanging experimental contemporary art.


2016 Light column

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관리자 2016-08-23 16:31

작가KIM Dong-Kyu
KIM Dong-Kyu, <Light column>, Fabric, dye, plastic bowl, 400x600x50cm, 1974 (reproduction in 2016)
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KIM Dong-Kyu, <Custom>, Oil on Canvas, 84x102cm, 1974 
Courtesy of the artist

[Korea]
KIM Dong-Kyu
Light column
Unknown title

Kim Dong-Kyu graduated from the arts department at the Busan National University of Education and served as a member of the Hyuck coterie in Busan from 1963 to 1975. In Light Column by the artist who has led the contemporary art scene in Busan, clothes are hung from the ceiling in the form of a column with the lower portion soaking in a bowl filled with aqueous ink. Over time ink of various colors are absorbed into the column of clothes. The method of using the technique of traditional dying and the process coming from the nature of the materials is differentiated from the method of modernism. Kim Dong-Kyu attempted to create works that took advantage of natural phenomenon while seeking the beauty and joy found in the contemporary arts through the passage of time and changes in materials according to the change and native beauty of primary colors. 

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