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 Lotus Flower
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관리자 2014-09-17 20:14
Ink and colors on paper
130x520cm
Lotus Flower
Meaning of Modernity
Can we call art and its process an advancement? I think art itself is the same when it was done in primitive times. Primitive art can rather be modern. The shape I mentioned earlier is not exact but it is better than a modern painter's drawing in some sense. It is seemingly foolish but modern people cannot even copy its powerful and perfect lines. I think art is not for advancement but it is to express each era with lines and dots. For example, there are mural paintings on stone in UIsan and in a cave in France but the one in the cave which was recently found was painted by human 32,000 years ago. They painted deer, rhinoceros and horse using charcoal with wonderful drawing techniques. Now there are others discovered in that cave but they are not opened to the public yet. I recently watched a move <Forgotten Dream Cave> (directed by Werner Herzog) at Ewha Womans University auditorium and I felt that ways of thinking are the same both in modern and prehistoric people.