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.
2004 Origin-Symbol-Present
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◦ Work Activities
- Collective Exhibition
· 2003 Asian Sculpture Exhibition(Busan Metropolitan City Hall)
Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition(Geumjeong-Gu Office, Busan)
· 2002 Busan International Sculpture Exhibition(Busan Cultural Center)
Korean-Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition
: "눈길의 동양, 손질의 기억 -筑豊으로부터의 발신(Tagawa Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan)
Asian Spirit Exhibition(Busan Cultural Center)
Korea-Japan "The circle without circumference"
(Kanagawa Kenminhall Gallery, Yokohama, Japan)
"Round World", Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition in commemoration of the opening of
Asian Game 2002 (Mt. Yongdu Park, Busan)
-----------------------found in primitive pictures carved on the wall with his own symbolic figures. The art of the past and the art of the future are connected and combined through hieroglyphic figures, which is artistic symbols for communication. Besides, the contemporary representation of the past art is sought by the artist. The sculptor has been carving continuously on the part of the natural stone in this work. What does the artist want to achieve through this continuous carving work, that is, through the repeated work of coding and interpreting of concepts? That may be the effort to get rid of the chasm between the subject(I) and the object(You) and the chasm between the past and the present and to facilitate the communication between them.
◦ Work Activities
- Collective Exhibition
· 2003 Asian Sculpture Exhibition(Busan Metropolitan City Hall)
Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition(Geumjeong-Gu Office, Busan)
· 2002 Busan International Sculpture Exhibition(Busan Cultural Center)
Korean-Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition
: "눈길의 동양, 손질의 기억 -筑豊으로부터의 발신(Tagawa Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan)
Asian Spirit Exhibition(Busan Cultural Center)
Korea-Japan "The circle without circumference"
(Kanagawa Kenminhall Gallery, Yokohama, Japan)
"Round World", Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition in commemoration of the opening of
Asian Game 2002 (Mt. Yongdu Park, Busan)
-----------------------found in primitive pictures carved on the wall with his own symbolic figures. The art of the past and the art of the future are connected and combined through hieroglyphic figures, which is artistic symbols for communication. Besides, the contemporary representation of the past art is sought by the artist. The sculptor has been carving continuously on the part of the natural stone in this work. What does the artist want to achieve through this continuous carving work, that is, through the repeated work of coding and interpreting of concepts? That may be the effort to get rid of the chasm between the subject(I) and the object(You) and the chasm between the past and the present and to facilitate the communication between them.
◦ Work Activities
- Collective Exhibition
· 2003 Asian Sculpture Exhibition(Busan Metropolitan City Hall)
Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition(Geumjeong-Gu Office, Busan)
· 2002 Busan International Sculpture Exhibition(Busan Cultural Center)
Korean-Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition
: "눈길의 동양, 손질의 기억 -筑豊으로부터의 발신(Tagawa Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan)
Asian Spirit Exhibition(Busan Cultural Center)
Korea-Japan "The circle without circumference"
(Kanagawa Kenminhall Gallery, Yokohama, Japan)
"Round World", Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition in commemoration of the opening of
Asian Game 2002 (Mt. Yongdu Park, Busan)