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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.


Barbara KASTEN

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관리자 2020-09-05 14:54

Born 1936 in Chicago, USA

Lives in Chicago

Barbara KASTEN, Crossover (Düsseldorf), 2016, HD video, color, silent loop, plexiglas, paper, 304.8×213.4×121.9cm

Courtesy the artist and Bortolami Gallery, New York, ©Barbara KASTEN image: Bortolami, NY, Thomas Dane Gallery, Kadel Willborn Gallery, Düsseldorf

 

Barbara KASTEN trained as a painter and textile artist, but in the early 1970s she turned towards photography and began using photographic processes like cyanotype and photosensitive textiles. KASTEN travelled to Europe in the mid-1960s, where she lived and worked for two years; here she was influenced by Constructivist ideas and architects like Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe, and the Bauhaus movement. László MOHOLY-NAGY’s kinetic sculptures and his works with abstract light effects especially had an impact on her practice. Light, shadow, mirror, and transparency have become key aspects in KASTEN’s work ever since.

She has used mirror, plexiglass, fiberglass screening, reflective metals, plaster, lights, and other props to realize her conceptually-based photographs and installations. For over 40 years KASTEN has investigated and depicted the three-dimensional complexity of these materials on a two-dimensional plane, which can be experienced in most of her work. The interplay of light, color and geometry are the most important in elements in Barbara KASTEN’s lifelong investigation of photography, and it is within this trinity that the artist finds a way to show light’s power to transform materiality. 
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