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 Tree...#3
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관리자 2014-09-17 20:54
Ink on Paper
104x216cm
Tree...#3
Photographer without Camera
To make a fundamental question of 'What is art' into work, I started 'Photograph Action Project'. I wanted to answer that question on my own because I decided to live my life with art. There would be no correct answer but I tried organizing the answer. Upon hearing art, the first scene is a canvas and an artist filled with anguish in front of it and I came up with that scene while I thought over what to paint on canvas in atelier. I thought nature would paint something on the empty canvas by connecting those two, instead of struggling to put something in the canvas myself. And I thought that would be the most fundamental quality given to artists as to the duty of reproduction of existing things. Through presenting canvas to the nature, I started works in which audience and I could recall basic roles or ultimate and fundamental questions in art.