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 Tel Aviv
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관리자 2014-09-16 09:27
2012
Wax painting on canvas
153×200cm
Tel Aviv
Since Impressionism, artists have been inspired by the photograph contributed to the transformation of technical process. The arrival of computer has also aroused the same phenomenon. On the contrary to human faces, COGNEE who mostly works using beeswax, removes the subject in the process of elimination through the melting work of materials that the principle called the appearance of the body is realized on the canvas. For example, a face appears from material, the stripes formed like this create a movement dynamics and then arouse a certain inner vibration as effective as the subject, for painting as well. On the other hand, his urban landscape goes back to the age of the daguerrotype, the age of the city images on the paper with the traces of time. He shows the present images that vibrate between nostalgia and moment, and between past and present.
The consumption society accompanying icons such as supermarkets, chairs, various things finds its own place within the system of such photos that include the things in this world that probably will vanish into nothing.