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 Simultaneity 69 – I
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Oil on canvas
112x145.5cm
Simultaneity 69 – I
Oil on canvas
112x145.5cm
Simultaneity 69 – H
Origin, After That
To give an extreme example, Chosun Ilbo once reported 'Is this called a painting.' Painting drawn with a ruler, painting of red, yellow and white. Running man naked. Painting with briquette. As shown from these words, it was a big shock to all painters and it could be considered only that way at that time because there was no such thing in our modern art. Most paintings until then were of realism linked to academism, landscapes, flowers, roses, warm greenhouses or anything that was seen. Modern art that time was with scattering, throwing, something black or desperate through Korean War or the Second World War. But this work is clear, bright, clean, geometric and of primary color so it was totally new. And we now asses that substances, colors of things or happenings were first introduced so all painters were amazed and at the same time, sighed for a new perspective in modern art and they also paid attention to where these young artists headed for, which I think served as an opportunity for Korean modern art.