Korea mania, a Korean season in Sèvres

Korea mania, a Korean season in Sèvres.

From January 21 to 20 July 2015.

Sèvres - City of ceramics famous in 2015 the France-Korea Cross Years, by organizing two exhibitions; the heritage one with Novel of a traveler, the other contemporary through the presentation of works by Yik-Yung Kim et Yeun-Kyung Kim.
From January 21 to July 20, the exhibition Novel of a traveler revolves around the emblematic figure of the diplomat Victor Collin from Plancy (1853-1922), first consul of France in Korea who collected many Korean objects and works of art.
The exhibition invites you on a double journey: the one to the Korean peninsula, in the heart of the Far East, to discover an ancient and refined culture, and the other in the form of a dive in time, towards the “hermit kingdom” at the end of the Choson period, at the end of the XNUMXth century.
Numerous ceramics, some of which are exceptional from the 1st century AD to the present day, including the large XNUMXth century dragon jar, considered a masterpiece of the national collections held by the establishment, are presented as well as the furniture, musical instruments, everyday objects, photographs, paintings, archival documents that evoke the country and its art of living.

Yik-Yung KIM (born in 1935 in Chongjin and working in Seoul) is considered a major artist in her country, for making the link between cultural heritage and contemporary porcelain and sandstone creation, in the Korean tradition of Buncheong (white slip on simple forms decorated with traces of the brush and covered with a transparent and shiny enamel revealed during cooking).
The glass creations of Yeun-Kyung KIM (born in 1970 in Seoul, currently
responsible for the glass workshop at ENSAD in Strasbourg) will be presented with his work on the accumulation and compression of window glass from the 2000s, his glass sculptures as well as a recent installation on tables of blown shapes reminiscent of bottles pot-bellied black or transparent.
Parallel to these two highlights, the French artist Claire Roudenko-Bertincurrently in residency at the Applied Research Laboratory, will invest in the Museum's Asian Collections Hall, with installation and performance related to her quest for celadon and her fascination with Korean culture.
A conférence will be held at the BULAC (University library of languages and civilizations) partner of the event, on Tuesday March 17, 2015 on the theme "Discovering Korea: the adventure of Victor Collin de Plancy, diplomat and scholar" by Laurent Quisefit (University Library of Languages and Civilizations) and Stéphanie Brouillet.
A study day on celadon, both from the historical and scientific angle, planned for the autumn, will punctuate this Korean season at the Ceramic City.

The event is supported by the Cultural Heritage Administration of the Korean Republic.