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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 The wonderful world 2010

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작가Jung Hye Ryun
Twists of one’s ideas that have been accepted without being questioned are achieved through Jung’s ause of an unusual material of leather. The scope of her artistic concerns has been extended to include the indiscriminate reception of fairy tales’ characters during her childhood, textbooks, entertainers and the matters of the ‘power’ owned by the political and the social. The unreasonableness and improperness of the modern society are rendered through the rickety structures in amusement parks, and the symbolic buildings reconstructed of the medium of leather urges one to reinterpret his or her ideas present in between the true and the false. Nevertheless, she alerts herself against some kinds of heavy and grave approaches. The present perceptions of power and institution are twisted and turned by her inimitable use of humor and commonplace materials. In the works whose concept was a wonderful world to which the artist has paid attention for recent years, the individual objects of her concern during the previous years are collectively congregated. Her reconstruction of the small world of an amusement park made of imitations reveals the fictitious structure of society and simultaneously reflects on the present reality. Those gigantic and instable structures, made of the combinations of the futile conditions and exaggerated symbolic contradictions existing behind the fun and allurements given by such play apparatuses as the merry‐go‐round, the Ferris wheel, and the roller coaster, are the symbolic and paradoxical revelations of the double‐faced and contradictory system of the modern society and put a question about the real substance of the future that we fancy ourselves as ideal. What are our eyes trying to find in this wonderful world as the symbol of dreams and ideals?
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