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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.


2002 Gazing

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관리자 2005-10-12 14:02

작가Park, Sang-Ho
This installation artist, born in Busan, tries to express 멶reams?using the objets like the forms of wings or airplanes and pursues the relationship between humans, communication or identity of oneself through the forms of human figures. The comprehensive concept of 멻uman?and the form of 멺aze?are tried through the combination of the traditional method of installation and media. With the work called 멒azing? the artist tries to reflect the phases of the times by juxtaposing the virtual reality(monitor), which the moderns are so used to, and the actual reality(nature). When viewers enter the narrow entrance, through which only one person can pass, they will encounter a long and narrow rectangular space, where they can gaze at the sea on the monitor and at the real one through the window, sitting on the chair. Viewers have a chance to think about which one comes more real to them.
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