The 3rd International KWANGJU BIENNALE 2000
I Arts & Human Rights I
& Japanese Contemporary Art I
the spirit of the Kwangju Democratic
Uprising in the exhibition.
With this spirit, Arts & Human Rights will introduce the Korean mass arts, and deal
with racism, war, pollution
and suppression from Western societies.
In addition to those issues, from the global standpoint, the matter of women, seniors, children and
homosexualism will be discussed in the show. Another key point of this show is the focus on artistic freedom by stressing freedom of
expression in order to help audiences to understand how art has been manipulated by authority so that viewers can stop this abuse of art in
society.
Dates Mar. 29 - Jun. 7, 2000
Ichiro Hariu
received both a Master's and Doctor's degree in
aesthetics from Tokyo National Univ.
He taught at Tama Art College and Wako Univ. and
he is now the president of Japan Art Critic Association, Japan Afro-Asian Latin American
Artists Association ,
and director of New Japanese Literature Association .
He is also a professor of aesthetics at Wako Univ. and Okayama Prefecture Univ.
He also
participated in the Venice Biennale as Japanese commissioner in 1968
and in Sao -
Paulo Biennale in 1977 and 1979.
He has been associated with various international art, cultural and political events
and
actively worked as a critic.
He published {Avangard of Art}, {Commune within us}, {Charts of Contemporary Arts}.,
{Collection of Ichiro Hariu's critics}, {Toward to Cultural Revolution},
{History of Post War
Japanese Arts} and {The Painter of Agony}.
And, his translation books are {Balzac and
French Realsim}, {Dada-Kunst und Anti Kunst}, and {Surrealism}.
He also curated some
exhibitions, such as , and did some TV programs with NHK.
(Excerp from 'Curator's consept', by Mr. Ichiro Hariu, Section for Arts and Human Rights:)
One of the art galleries in Tokyo which viewed these photographs decided to sponsor his show.
Since then Sobye has held 6 solo exhibitions
in this Gallery.
When the Asahi newspaper became aware of the
great response to his exhibitions,
they showcased his best work at 3 different museums in 1999.
The number of visitors and catalogues sold at the 3 museums
was very significant (50.000 visitors, 3 reprints).
He paints pastel portraits of old men, children, and war and political refugees depicting the plight of such human existence and the abuse of human rights and denouncing the guilty capitalistic societies which eliminate the weak as one type of civil war.
You will find very little art that so keenly illustrates that "human rights" is more precious than the earth itself as does Sobye's art."
19. Moelyono
2. Shin Hak-chul
20. Bhupen Khakhar
3. Jung Won-chul
21. Kang Yo-bae
4. Kim Yong-soo
22. Blenda Fajardo
5. Kim In-soon
23. Sleiman Mansule
6. Kim Koo-han
24. Reinhardt Sobye
7. Ahn Sung-Keum
25. Zwelethu Mthethwa
8. Kang Yeon-gyun
26. Ling Fei
9. Chiehjen Chen
27. Santuago Bose
10. OKABE Masao
28. Simko Ahmed
11. TOMIYAMA Taeko
29. Krzysztof Wodiczko
12. NISHIMOTO Toshiko
30. Anselm Kiefer
13. YANAGI Yukinori
31. Nancy Spero/Neon Golub
14. OKADA Itoko
32. Wang Qingsong
15. MARUKI Iri & MARUKI Toshi
33. Jose Angel Toirac
16.YAMASHITA Kikuji
34. Kwangju Visual Media Academy
17. Dadang Christanto
35. KUWABARA Shise
18. Fix Harusuno