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.
2014 Totipotent Architecture-Twin Towers
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관리자 2014-09-16 09:47
2009-2013
Sculpture, painted steel
42×36×102cm
Courtesy of the Artists Lucy + Jorge Orta
Totipotent Architecture-Twin Towers
British artist Lucy and Argentinean artist Jorge Orta has formed a group since 1991 that travel throughout Paris and London to show various fields of art such as Dassin, sculpture, media, architectural and installation works to the world. The exhibition
“Totipotent Architecture” describes the ceaseless transformation within translucent and ambiguous form though the organic physicality of variously facetted crystal body. Notably by the geometric transformation of the black frame and organic form of hybridity, the contrast between structure and figure is created and generates interactivity that initiates a third figure. The underlying movement that the hybrid motif of grid and curve creates becomes even more amplified through the use of the medium of glass. The light and the effect of shadow, which reminds us of Moholy Nagy, who experimented the penetrability of light that passes through the physicality of glass, and the scenography and process of temporality are experienced by viewers while walking through the sculptures.