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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 꿈의 사물

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관리자 2009-08-27 17:13

작가JIM SHAW
California-based artist Jim Shaw creates artwork that morphs a deadpan pop sensibility with uneasiness, resulting in images that are both arresting and disquieting. Shaw's dream drawings are accounts of actual nocturnal visions and currently serve as one of his primary visual sources and inspiration. The image of an effervescent universe, kept only with great difficulty within its boundaries, could also serve as a metaphor for Jim Shaw whose works are, in some way, the transcription of murky, dream-like depths, nurtured by images of an America teeming with dreams and nightmares.
Since the late 70s, Jim Shaw’s evolution has taken the form of cycles, developing, through several series, an original and discontinued narration. One major cycle, begun in the late 90’s, was Shaw’s creation of 0-ism. Shaw’s O-ism cycle gathers a corpus of works about that fictitious religion inspired by the assorted and sometimes unlikely religious movements that appeared in the US during the 19th century. Each work in the series indicates what postwar visual culture might have been, had O-ism really existed. Shaw is also well known for his series “My Mirage” which depicts the life of his fictional alter-ego Billy through a cornucopia of American pop culture imagery.
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