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.
László MOHOLY-NAGY
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관리자 2020-09-05 15:52
Died 1978 in Chicago, USA
László MOHOLY-NAGY, Lightplay: black, white, gray, 1930, Single channel video, 5min 30sec
Courtesy Lightcone, The Moholy-Nagy Foundation
László MOHOLY-NAGY is a multimedia artist who has been active in many areas of visual arts including painting, photography, sculpture, performing arts, film, architecture, typography, interior design, and book design. MOHOLY-NAGY studied law at the University of Budapest in 1914, but with the outbreak of World War I, he suspended his studies and served as an artillery officer. When he was injured and hospitalized, MOHOLY-NAGY spent much of this time in convalescence on creative endeavors such as writing poetry, drawing, and painting. After his discharge from the military, MOHOLY-NAGY began his career as an artist by submitting his poems and artworks to Hungarian literary publications and salon exhibitions. MOHOLY-NAGY became a full-time artist in 1918 before settling in Berlin two years later. By then, his practice had become fixated with the geometric style of art.