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.
2014 The Death of Edin, Srebrenica July 1995
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관리자 2014-09-16 09:22
2007
Oil on canvas
210×280cm
Bernard Massini Collection
The Death of Edin, Srebrenica July 1995
From the perspective of image, Ophuis¡¯ works reveal inexplicable worlds of violence and torture practiced particularly among prisoners of concentration camps in the late 20th century to the early 21st century Europe.
The Srebrenica series was made from the artist¡¯s deep interest in Bosnia- Herzegovina in 2003. It leads the narrative in a way similar to the start of soon to be emerging film action. The film combines filmic sequences, and combines associated motifs in to one unity. The scene, lighting and clear colors of costumes (red collar, yellow shirts, blue pants, etc.) are used, and sometimes these allow the movement of eyes.