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.
Jill MAGID
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Born 1973 in Bridgeport, USA
Lives in Brooklyn, USA
Jill MAGID, Tender, 2020, United States penny with engraved edge, variable dimensions
Courtesy the artist and LABOR, Mexico City
Half a kilogram of the cremated remains of Mexican architect Luis Barragán are preserved in a 2.02-carat rough cut diamond. The object is presented within an open black ring box, its base inserted between a slit of white padded silk, and placed behind a glass porthole within the wall. This is The Proposal, a 2016 work by Jill MAGID first exhibited in Switzerlandat the Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen. The Swiss origin of the work is significant; the ring represents just a portion of the work, which is complemented by volumes of related documents that trace an attempt to have the architect’s professional archive returned to Mexico from its current holding in Birsfelden, Switzerland, where is has been since 1994. The archive, allegedly gifted as an engagement present by the chairman of the Swiss furniture company Vitra, remains to this day under the private ownership of his once fiancée Frederica Zanco’s not-for-profit organization, the Barragan Foundation, which controls complete rights to the architect’s images and work. By creating an engagement ring—a symbol previously absent in the arrangement—MAGID forges a proposal of a different kind: one of repatriation, transparency, and legacy.