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.
2010 1. 무제2. 무제3. 북/남: 새로운 군인 4. 우리는 태초의 존재에서 태어난다.5. 미국인들은 죽음을 다룰 수 없다. 6. 무제 (섹스 시리즈 中(마리언을 위하여))7. 당신의 몸에 나의 손을 얹을 때8. 무제
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Self-taught he drew painted and penned works paying homage to the literary efforts of Jean Genet (1910 1986) and William Burroughs (1914 1997) two greatly adored fellow homosexuals and social outlaws.
Wojnarowicz`s paintings of the early 1980s were dominated by acrylics on cheap panels collages using fragments of printed material such as advertisements and from time to time works with elements such as text that appeared to have been hammered roughly onto the canvas. Never the most aesthetically pleasing of paintings for that very reason his works throw into vivid relief violence sex the power of politics to intervene in both the powerlessness of people and the inherent beauty of life's fragility all acutely perceived
From the second half of the 80s Wojnarowicz employed a cheap camera to produce numerous monochrome photographic works In Untitled from Sex Series (1988-89) a series of eight photographs he inserts images related to the act of reproduction into documentary photos evoking American history suggesting an intimate connection between the destructive and consumption-driven behaviors repeated throughout human history and irrepressible human desires.