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 The Bachelor`s Bed
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관리자 2011-04-11 23:08
In contrast the fog in his three-dimensional work The Bachelor's Bedappears more directly in front of us. At first glance we see something about the size of a single bed that looks like a bench but fog is gushing from the top of it forming a cloud. At the same time a single red laser beam is visible among the cloud and then the cloud disappears momentarily leaving only the bed. The phenomenon that repeats above the bed makes it seem as if everything has been erased by the power of someone who will not allow new worlds to come into existence.
If you interpret theword bachelor in the title to mean a single man The Bachelor's Bedalso seems to be expressing the delusions in the head of a lonely man that night after night grow in size and his ambivalent psychological state that attempts to forbid that happening. However sometimes a creation is produced from desire and what excites that desire is something that seems to be lacking or missing. Does thinking in this way lead to the idea that a creation is produced from a desire to bury what is lacking or missing in the world and also in the Creator.