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.
2008 JAEHO JEONG
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What JEONG has been painting are cultural and urban paintings. They are paintings mixed with images, which have been configured and codified, and things what we have already put in the past or in the memory by painting them. It expresses both the momentarily recognized sensation, like pressing camera shutter, and the perception that has long been observed and self-examined. It is very sensual yet intellectual work that carries objective and subjective factors. At last, the image functions only as an image, and being completely fallen in the painting, it becomes abstract by mixing with line, side, and color. JEONG approached even the feelings in a very objective and logical manner and finally brought it out. He has made the chaotic and unregulated category by intentional and deliberate process. It is the mimesis of the world and human, which represent of his momentary feeling that he captures in his surroundings, and his mind that he experienced in the changes of times and spaces.
- KIM, Mi-jin