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 Auroches (New Paradise Series)
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관리자 2014-09-16 09:31
2001
C-print
100×165cm
Auroches (New Paradise Series)
Oleg Kulik‘s work from the 1990s shows how to deal with sado-masochism through performance, and his work has been featured in photography work showing the entropy properties such as nature and animals, the extinction of human beings through <window> series, etc., since the early 2000s. It reveals the surface of photo as mirror images, faces animals as the other, and shows a human vigilance area in the giant landscape by the reflection image of people. It makes audience face the other as another subject in view of Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis(métamorphose)" that means 'Becoming the other', 'Becoming animals'.
From among these, in the work <Gorilla>(2001) there are a gorilla, near the center of the canvas, looking straight on to the audience, and the people situated on its right and left as if to be reflected in the mirror, which seems to express the origin of human beings metaphorically like Darwin's theory of evolution. It can be said that this work expresses the essence of image metaphorically, creating the ambiguous space between 'to see' and 'to be seen', and also puts the question of frames.