7th Gwanju Calls... Remembering 2004
• Osifuye with Yong Woo Lee (artistic Director of Gwanju Biennale, and jahman Anikulapo on the ex hibition ground The 7th Gwangju Biennale, will be directed by the – to use the cliché – Nigeria-born America-claimed Okwui Enwezor, who has made tremendous impact around global art circuit as Curator and Art Director of mega shows, including the Documenta in Kasel, Germany. The show is slated to open on September 5, 2008, and could run for about six months or more drawing thousands of visitors in its first few weeks of staging and subsequently still attracting visitors from all over Asia and tourists from the West and Europe. Gwanju Biennale is the mega art show in the deceptively rural-faced Gwanju city, way off the techie capital of South Korea, Seoul. Though not as big and influential as the Documenta I Germany, or the Venice Biennale or the Sao Paulo Biennnale and others in their class and status, the Gwanju Biennale is about the most emotive and grossly evocative of the struggle of...