Tomorrow, September the 3rd, will open 10,000 lives, the 8th edition of the Gwuangju Biennial, this year curated by Massimiliano Gioni, among the key figures of the festival of Contemporary art. During the second edition of the festival, entitled on biennials/TUTTO SULLE BIENNALI, that was a deep and broad survey about the format of big art shows, Gioni in an interview with Carlos Basualdo anticipated, in fact, his Korean experience.
Founded in 1995, the Gwuangju Biennial, is the oldest and most important Asian show. The theme chosen by the Italian curator wants to be a careful consideration of the relation that occurs between audience and images and vice-versa. Nowadays very powerful in our daily life, on the mass-media, in our dreams, visual inputs can become a real obsession, a phenomenon that the show wants to analyse and catalogue as a sort of “imaginative museum”, quoting André Malraux.
The title recalls the unfinished epic poem of the writer, poet and painter Ko Un, a monumental work with an ancient flavour, but recently published, written in the early 80’s, initially throughout a long period of detention caused by his involvement in the battle for human rights.
More than a hundred artists will take place at the kermesse. Among them the Israeli artist Keren Cytter – in conversation with Marinella Paderni during OPERE/works – Hito Steyerl – a key figure of on biennials/TUTTO SULLE BIENNALI – and the Italians Maurizio Cattelan, Franco Vaccari and Roberto Cuoghi.
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Carlos Basualdo,
Massimiliano Gioni,
On biennials,
Marinella Paderni,
Hito Steyerl,
OPERE/works,
Biennale di Gwuangju,
Keren Cytter,
Maurizio Cattelan,
Franco Vaccari,
Roberto Cuoghi,
Andrè Malraux,
Ko Un)
