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 Space Nucleolus 1
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관리자 2014-09-17 21:04
Red clay, Glue, Mixed media
148x209cm
Space Nucleolus 1
Red clay, Glue, Mixed media
182x182cm
Space Nucleolus 2
Beyond the Division
I've never used titles like 'Expansive Force' or 'Drilling' since my college days. I'm making a hole on a wall using a drill and on a canvas with a stick but I think that the side at the end of drilling is north and this side is south. I think that side is left and this side is right. Left and right of north and south is considered as left and right of my body based on ideology. They are considered both eyes, both nostrils, both hands and both arms. I tried to express the work's formativeness with an aesthetic philosophy or thinking if I can ever name it a philosophy, which would seem absurd. That is how my work started by continuously making holes on canvas. With scores of thick and thin brass pieces to make into sticks, I think I made like thousands of holes. What I did was not simple drilling but perparation to smash stones in a mine. It was that much desperate. I've worked on this since I was in college in 1960s. The work titled <Space Core> is to be presented at this biennale which was made when I was college junior and senior in 1966.