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.
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Varda Caivano’s work seems unbothered by painting’s many mooted deaths and rebirths, choosing to concentrate instead on the minutiae of its own existence, its everyday struggles with being. Doubt is important in her canvases, and is responsible, I suspect, for their restless invention. Although those that find their way on to the walls of galleries and museums are in one sense ‘finished’, they never feel entirely settled. Washes are painted over, but then seep through the covering pigment, marks are almost, but not quite, obliterated, and there is everywhere the suggestion of grubby fingers that are unwilling, or unable, to leave the fertile business of painting alone. Looking across Caivano’s oeuvre, we see forms transmigrate from one canvas to another, providing a problem here, a solution there, as though the one constant in her invented universe is permanent and lively flux.
-TM