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 Song of Life – in the forest
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관리자 2014-09-17 21:14
Ink and color on mulberry paper board
190x570cm
Song of Life – in the forest
Nouvelle Vague in Oriental Painting
My works seem to have been with some characteristics since its beginning. I added humanistic imagination to a view of nature and gave them uniqueness with some formative attempts. For the view of nature in particular, the fact that I am from country and rich experience in nature from my childhood would have a significant impact. But the nature I expressed was not what I just saw and felt but I added my own imagination on it, which serves as basis for 'Song of Life' series. Another work is 'The Fool Jesus' series with a religious theme from my religious background in childhood and I worked on it for about a decade. I tried making parodies on view of existing icons. I tried to put some seemingly distorted and social imagination on them. The third is travel. I combined a kind of optimism in life and humor with innocence of childhood. Working on series, I haven't taken any single or monotonous theme but I feel that many different themes such as life, religious messages, travel, people's lives and landscape have served as a butterfly net for my sensibility, which means that I've been constantly stimulated and driven as if fish were caught in a dragnet.