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 Vanitas bust
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관리자 2011-04-11 22:55
Vanitas is the Latin word for "vanity". In art history, the word vanitas has also been used to describe a style of still-life painting fashionable among affluent Europeans in the 16th and 17th century mainly in the Netherlands and the Flanders region.
Although the model for Lee's Vanitas Bustis an Asian person with whom he has close contact, at a glance the sculpture has the Mannerist style of Europe at the time. Its surface however, is not one of marble, but a soft silicon film. By changing the setting on the air compressor inside the pedestal of the sculpture, the beautiful, fresh, young exterior that one would have expected tobe preserved, in an instant turns into a wrinkled old person.
Lee exhibits a male and female Vanitas Bustfor this exhibition. Sculptures that repeatedly cycle though youth and old age in front of the viewer. These sculptures are less sympathetic than the European vanitas paintings, and remind us of the fact that we are continually aging and that someday death will be welcoming us.