ART + SEOUL #4 (Time Lapse in Seoul)

I find that video about Seoul and it's sooooo amazing, I think it's just showing the most beautiful edge of the city. Let you enjoy it ! I also would advise you to enlarge the video, to see every little thing ...

ART + SEOUL #3 (National Museum of Korea)

The National Museum of Korea is quite interesting to visit. Even if you're not fond of art, you would like hanging around in this massive building, only made with glass and granite. Here are gathered from the most primitive to the most contemporary art works. Iron armors, gold royal crowns, porcelain and ceramics of all kinds, from all the korean dynasties. The following works are my favourite ones.

ART + SEOUL #2 (Samsung Leeum Museum of Art)

 

The Samsung Cultural Foundation was founded in 1965 and is now known as one of the most active companies in the artistic patronage in South Korea : After the opening of his first museum in 1982, then of the Rodin Gallery in 1999, the Leeum Museum is his new born.

This museum was inaugurated in 2004 is a  real little architectural jewel. Outside two Louise Bourgeois huge spiders welcome the visitors. Then, Lee Samsung appealed to 3 world-renowned architects to build the 3 different buildings of the whole site. 

The swiss Mario Botta had designed the museum n°1, dedicated to the traditional art, then the contemporary art museum has been designed by Jean Nouvel. The third museum has been designed by the dutch Rem Khoolaas, and is dedicated to the education.

The museum n°2 is the most interesting as far as I am concerned, because it hosts works from Frank Stella, Andy Warhol or Jeff Koons.

ART + SEOUL #1 (Juergen Teller exhibition)

Juergen Teller has worked 10 year with Marc Jacobs, and shot every single ad from the brand. One exhibition in Seoul is dedicated to his works, and I definitely need to go there, not tomorrow, because it's closed, not during my next free days, because I'm on Jeju, maybe on next monday ... Why not ? Argh, time goes so fast !