Project
2007
Korean
Home/ The way of living
At the Museum of
Cultures, National Museum of Finland, Helsinki.
02 April-30 December 2007
Organizers
Eija Maija Kotilainen, Director,
Museum of Cultures, National museum of Finland
Amie Ann, Curator, Visual artist
Kati Aberg, Film director
Jeon Yong-Il, Designer, Professor, Kookmin University
Kim BongYeol, Architect, Professor, Korean National University
of Arts
The
Korean exhibition will be held at the Museum of Cultures, National museum of
Finland 02 April-30
December 2007. The main idea of the Korean exhibition is to present Korean culture
towards an
understanding of everyday life in Korea.
The exhibition is a creation of Korean, and thus shows how a great number of
Koreans see themselves
and world outside Korea.
The concept of the exhibition
1. The spiritual landscape of the Korean-mountains in Korean thought
Korean Buddhism- Buddhism greatly gave rise to
the Korean aesthetic philosophy
Buddhist though as revealed
in Temple architecture
2.
Korean traditional home and Korean living way of today
The structure of the traditional house reveals Koreaną„s
choice to live in unison with nature: utilizing
materials found in nature (wood, stone, paper) and a complementary
relationship between the lines
created by nature and those produced by man e.g. the construction
of the house.
In the metropolitan city of Seoul and in other cities and
towns as well as, the overwhelming uniform
design of high rise apartment complexes creates a monotones
architecture which is out of balance
with the neighboring structures and natural landscape
3. Korean design, inspiration from traditional handcraft
The act of striving for the expression of the innate beauty
in objects rather than reaching for superficial
aesthetic material for the exhibition. From this exhibition
will given an image of Korea, an understanding
of the Korean mind, and sense of identity of ancestors.
It is currently being processed and improving the idea