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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.


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작가KAMIN LERTCHAIPRASERT
Kamin’s work addresses both Western and Oriental consciousness. Through his work, he synthesises Asia’s age-old wisdom, exemplified by Buddhism’s notions of emptiness and illusion, as well as the Western obsession with rationality, namely through his fascination for Einstein’s theory of relativity.
For the past seventeen years, his work has brought him further even than the avant-garde. His raw artistic material is present in his everyday life.
Thus, this present show by Kamin features a work made up of 366 non-divisible pieces. His personal philosophy is to analyse the march of time by questioning each passing day. He looks for answers through the introspective method of meditation, which he then translates into engravings and sculptures accompanied by philosophical aphorisms.
The Sitting 2004 series is his most accomplished in the synergy of the philosophical and plastic traditions of these two great civilisations. The minimalism, strength, and depth of the wooden monochromic engravings printed on traditionally-crafted paper are striking. These flattened works of black and white are accompanied by elegant and mysterious Thai calligraphy. These maxims of pure wisdom lead to us to question ourselves and others, much like a tear in the veil of illusion.
- Patricia Byrs-Lasquier
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