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. Northpoint Galax Atlas 2. Big Bang - Homage to Gamov 3. The Red Orb 4. Googol5. Black Hole 6. Solar System
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When talking about Kanayama, it is important to mention his continued lifelong support for the work of Atsuko Tanaka who was a member of the original Gutai from its inception and who has been greatly reevaluated in recent years.
It was an interest in outer space that sparked Kanayama's desire anew to produce art. Kanayama's fascination with physics, mathematics and astronomy extended to him travelling to meet the "Big Bang theory" physicist, George Gamow (1904-1968) during his visit to Japan in order to get his autograph. The Big Bang was the very moment when an infinite cosmos was created from nothingness. From the 1990s, Kanayama began producing paintings that were homages to Gamow, collages of observational photographs of the galaxy with the assistance of an astronomer, and paintings depicting models of the heavenlybodies in simplified form. These works by Kanayama are not merely explorations of the nature of the cosmos but are vestiges of the philosophical contemplation of a man in his attempt to create something.