| 2004
Yeongam Ceramic Culture Center Special Exhibition -
The Breath of a House |
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"The
Breath of a House," a special exhibition coordinated
by the Ewha Womans University Museum in 2004 for the Yeongam
Ceramic Culture Center, was the second modern art project,
following the "Art of Soil Festival" held in
2000, to focus its attention on the particular regional
characteristics of Yeongam. This exhibition moved from
the soil, the origin of all life, to accentuate the concept
of the house, which nurtures individual lives. It featured
contemporary and diverse approaches to the house by 15
prominent modern artists including Gim Jang-seob, Gim
Ju-yeon, Gim Tae-gon, Bak Sang-suk, Bak Sil, Seo Do-ho,
Seo Hye-yeong, An Gyu-cheol, Yang Ju-hye, U Sun-ok, Yun
Seok-nam, Lee Gi-chil, Chae U-seung, Ham Yeon-ju, and
Hong Seung-hye. The participating artists, in this region
where domiciles represented a unity between humans and
nature, presented their visions of the various functional,
aesthetic, and philosophical concepts of the house both
inside the Yeongam Ceramic Culture Center and outside
in Gurim Village. This exhibition, which brought back
the traditional within the modern, bore witness to the
fact that history flows unbroken even amidst the rapidly
changing contemporary culture. |
| 2003
Yeongam Ceramic Culture Center Special Exhibition -
Wild Flowers from Mt. Weolchul and Ceramics (March 2003)
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The 2003
Yeongam Ceramic Culture Center Special Exhibition was
coordinated by the Ewha Womans University Museum. The
exhibition consisted of three displays under the themes
of "The Energy of Soil," "The Breath of
1,000 Years," and "The Sound of the Forest."
There was also a photo exhibit of Yeongam's Gurim Village
and Mt. Weolchul entitled "Window on the Wild Flowers
of Mt. Weolchul," along with an outdoor exhibit organized
under the theme of "Wild Flower Garden." This
exhibit was in the form of installation art, with wild
flowers placed in ceramics made from the red soil of Yeongam.
It was a new concept that brought nature into the exhibition
gallery. Six artists and three organizations worked together
to create 13 pieces of installation art. |
2002
Yeongam Ceramic Culture Center Special Exhibition -
The Beauty of Ceramics and Table Settings (March 2002) |
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This exhibition was jointly hosted
by the district of Yeongam and the Ewha Womans University
Museum, and coordinated as a special exhibition by the
Museum at the Yeongam Ceramic Culture Center. Leading
ceramics companies and potters used soil from Yeongam
to create newly designed tableware, and the pieces were
organized like table settings. In addition, paintings
of Korean traditional table settings from the Joseon dynasty
(1392-1910) were displayed to illustrate the identity
and history of Korean culture. The exhibition, in which
three artists and four companies worked together to create
nine table settings, demonstrated the harmony between
modern location and traditional ambience. |
| Another
History of Art : Representation of Feminity (2002) |
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By restoring the subjectivity of
female artists and spectators in a history of art that
has been heretofore dominated by the male perspective,
this exhibition simultaneously facilitated examining
the possibilities for rewriting the history of Korean
art, and viewing our modern and contemporary history
from the female perspective. The exhibition was composed
of two sections--the first was titled "The Images
and Spaces of Women" and the second "Feminine
Subjects and Techniques"--and presented 71 works
by 63 artists ranging from Lee Jong-u's "Portrait
of a Certain Lady" (1927), an acknowledged masterpiece
from the earliest period of Western art in Korea, to
Lee Bul's "Cyborg" (2000), a search for the
face of a new humanity in the 21st century. |
Five
Year Collection of Modern Art (April 2001) |
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Since 1999 the Museum has coordinated
not only classical but also modern art exhibitions, which
connect the ancient with the contemporary. Some 100 works
of modern art purchased or donated during the five year
period from 1996 to 2001 were put on display. The exhibition
mainly consisted of paintings, engravings, calligraphy,
sculptures, and tapestries by female artists active in
Korea and abroad such as Yun Seok-nam, Kim Won-suk, No
Eun-nim, Lee Bul, Seong Ok-hi, Kim Su-jeong, Kim Ok-jo,
and Mary E. Rottger. Engravings by Oh Yun, traditional-style
paintings by Lee Ho-shin and Lee Bang-ja, calligraphy
by Lee Mi-kyeong, woodwork by Lim Hong-sun, and sculptures
by Choi Seung-won were also put on display. |
| Five
Year Collection of Traditional Art (September 2001)
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During the five years from 1996 to 2001,
the Ewha Womans University Museum collected traditional
artifacts donated by 25 people, who are current or retired
professors, alumnae, or collectors who wished to contribute
to the development of the Museum. The pieces on display
included earthenware, traditional clothing, shoes, wooden
printing blocks, and stone sculptures, all of which were
once considered merely folklore material but have recently
been recognized for their value as traditional art. Chinese
ceramics were also displayed, which was very significant
in terms of the Museum's future development into an international
ceramics research institute. |
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