Busan Biennale
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.
2004 Chinese Legacy Mantle
Read 12,806
관리자 2005-10-12 17:09
◦ Work Activities
- Personal Exhibition
· 1997 "You meet the shadow of the Hundred Yeards"(VCA, Melbourne, Australia)
· 1995 "Deposit and fault"(New Delhi Culture Center, India)
· 1994 "Remember of Space"(CAFA Gallery, Beijing, China)
- Collective Exhibition
· 2003 "The time of open"(Contemporory Chinease Art National Gallery, Beijing, China)
· 1999 The Fourteenth International Asia Art Exhibition(Asia Art Museum, Fukuoca, Japan)
Transition-Chinese Experimental Art at the End of The Twentieth Century
(Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, U.S.A)
· 1998 The First Annual Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition
(He and its ideology, which the Mao jacket represents in the history of modernization. Especially for the Busan Biennale 2004, the artist produces a 3-meter-high Mao jacket symbolizing the Chinese Revolution and the Cold War.
◦ Work Activibol of the past authoritarianism and the Cold War. Thus, the artist exhibits the enlarged Mao jacket itself and sometimes puts it on the sculptures of Jesus, Marx, and a discus thrower, etc who symbolize different culture and ideology. The artist prompts an opportunity to think back to the times of the Chinese Revolution and its ideology, which the Mao jacket represents in the history of modernization. Especially for the Busan Biennale 2004, the artist produces a 3-meter-high Mao jacket symbolizing the Chinese Revolution and the Cold War.
◦ Work Activities
- Personal Exhibition
· 1997 "You meet the shadow of the Hundred Yeards"(VCA, Melbourne, Australia)
· 1995 "Deposit and fault"(New Delhi Culture Center, India)
· 1994 "Remember of Space"(CAFA Gallery, Beijing, China)
- Collective Exhibition
· 2003 "The time of open"(Contemporory Chinease Art National Gallery, Beijing, China)
· 1999 The Fourteenth International Asia Art Exhibition(Asia Art Museum, Fukuoca, Japan)
Transition-Chinese Experimental Art at the End of The Twentieth Century
(Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, U.S.A)
· 1998 The First Annual Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition
(He and its ideology, which the Mao jacket represents in the history of modernization. Especially for the Busan Biennale 2004, the artist produces a 3-meter-high Mao jacket symbolizing the Chinese Revolution and the Cold War.
◦ Work Activities
- Personal Exhibition
· 1997 "You meet the shadow of the Hundred Yeards"(VCA, Melbourne, Australia)
· 1995 "Deposit and fault"(New Delhi Culture Center, India)
· 1994 "Remember of Space"(CAFA Gallery, Beijing, China)
- Collective Exhibition
· 2003 "The time of open"(Contemporory Chinease Art National Gallery, Beijing, China)
· 1999 The Fourteenth International Asia Art Exhibition(Asia Art Museum, Fukuoca, Japan)
Transition-Chinese Experimental Art at the End of The Twentieth Century
(Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, U.S.A)
· 1998 The First Annual Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition
(He Xiangning Art Museum, SHEN ZHEN, China)