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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.


2016 Greater Japan Zero-Yen Notes

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관리자 2016-08-23 17:46

작가AKASEGAWA Genpei
AKASEGAWA Genpei, <Greater Japan Zero-Yen Notes>, P rinted material, 14.4×30.8cm, 1967

AKASEGAWA Genpei, <Model 1,000-Yen Notes III>, Letterpress p rint on craft paper, 29.3×19.3cm, 1963

AKASEGAWA Genpei, <Sakura Gaho Bandit Edition: celebrate on Sanrizuka!>, Poster, 102.9x72.7cm, 1971

AKASEGAWA Genpei, <Police Banzai>, Original drawing (pen on paper), 20.8×18.0cm, 1971

AKASEGAWA Genpei, <Red Army - P.F.L.P World War Declaration>, Poster, 73.0x51.5cm, 1971

AKASEGAWA Genpei, <2nd Anti-Imperialism International Conference >, Poster, 84.7.0×59.4cm, 1971

[Japan]
AKASEGAWA Genpei
Greater Japan Zero-Yen Notes
Model 1,000-Yen Notes III
Sakura Gaho Bandit Edition: celebrate on Sanrizuka!
Police Banzai
Red Army - P.F.L.P World War Declaration
2nd Anti-Imperialism International Conference

Akasegawa Genpei was born in Yokohama in 1937 and grew up in Oita, Kyushu. He was a member of the group Neo Dadaism Organizers formed in 1960. By creating objects in the Assemblage style from leftover goods, wrapping objects found around him in wrapping paper, and copying and enlarging the one thousand yen note, he developed the most unique and radical means of expression among the trends of the anti-art movement. Along the way, he was accused of copying one thousand yen notes and he had to fight in the Supreme Court. He was found guilty at the “Trial of the One Thousand Yen Note” and moved his place of activity to the world of publishing, working in journalism and illustration. It was at this point that he started to express art in an unprecedented area he referred to as “Super-art.”
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