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.
2012 Venus
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Venus
The series <Venus> by You Jin Lee possesses double- sidedness. Extreme beauty of Venus might give a rise to holiness and Venus has been an object of praise and worship yet she also has been an object of secular desire because of her erotic naked figure that induces seduction. The artist insinuates destruction and creation of desire and property of hermaphrodite that has denial and affirmation in one body in her work. Her Venus who seduces people with enchanting pose is a woman with a beautiful body and a Buddha at the same time. If original Venus in La Source by Ingres was represented as the source of life pouring clear water from a jar, this artist depicted her as a source of desire spurting a dragon, the symbol of absolute power. The artist broke the deified image of Venus and transformed her with her unique synthetic impact. It is done to suggest to broaden your range of perception of the world around and to think outside the box not to rebel against existing system or value.