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 Mélancolia
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관리자 2014-09-16 10:51
2013
Lead
205×70×40cm
Bernard Massini Collection
Mélancolia
Asan Smati intentionally shows a vision of black people that is understood as a classical figurative form. It is to agree with the idea of diversity and to recreate the form that is still being neglected by artists who are in the reproduction of art. Smati also uses both painterly and decorative elements in paintings and in sculpture works, he uses shiny contemporary materials and clear colors to reinvent the history of art. In his work, under the formality of entirely uncertain and fantastical epic narrative, we see the birth of apparition and icons of an age that are looking at the faces of humans across the world.