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 Blue Under Smashing April Nostalgia
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Blue Under Smashing April Nostalgia
The main idea for the project created by Anna Han is that of ‘The place’ and ‘Space’. A place gives us experiences, all different for each individual in each moment. The artist reinterprets the space of a specific place. And the viewers have their own experience through a coexisting two-dimension and three-dimension interpretation. Anna uses geometric shapes, corners, and walls divided into areas by using vinyl, printed patterns and threads to recreate space and to create an unconscious connection. The installation uses minimal and formal elements which are repeated and reproduced abstractly throughout the work, paying special attention to two-dimensional quadrilateral elements which signify the meaning on the wall and suggest a distorted and defined perception of space. In this project, Anna aims to magnify the significance of the physicality of space by using the entire area of the wall. <Blue Under Smashing April Nostalgia>(2012) represents Busan and is presented at the Busan Biennale. It adopts the geographical shape of Busan in the form of printed patterns. Using pink fabric with blue printed patterning on the inside opens up the concept of space determined by the walls. This project invites the audience into the work hoping to provoke interaction between viewer and the determined space created by the artist. Repeated patterns, colors, lights, and physicality are the main elements in this project.