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Glassworks capture the subtle beauty of nature : Yumin Art Noveau’s large collection shines light on distinct art era
2017-08-13
The new art gallery Yumin Art Noveau Collection, located inside Phoenix Resort in Jeju, is currently showing off an array of glass crafts that were created at least 100 years ago in the northern part of France. The museum itself is a piece of art reborn as a facility where the natural landscape of Jeju and the architecture come together.
“Genius Loci” built by Ando Tadao nine years ago was transformed into Yumin where the backdrop of Seopjikoji Beach met the Seongsan Ilchulbong’s ridge across the ocean. Danish architect Johan Carlsson kept the characteristics of the building’s predecessor, including the structure and layout, intact.
Inside the museum, each display room has lighting optimized to bring out the best in the artwork on display. All 47 pieces inspired by nature have come from the northeastern city of Nancy in France. Each gallery contains the works of significant Art Noveau artists such as Emille Galle, the Daum brothers and other masters of glassware whose works are realistic depictions of nature created by hand.
The Masterpiece Gallery has Les Coprins, a mushroom lamp that signifies the three stages of man. The three mushroom branches symbolize youth, mid-life and old age. Galle, born in Nancy, created this centerpiece for Henry Hirsch two years before he died in 1904.
Among the five of these pieces stored across the world, Yumin Art Noveau is said to possess the best sample.
Galle was a fascinating man who worked as a glass artisan, botanist, and concentrated the human spirit within Art Noveau. His glass bowl decorated with red coral was supposedly inspired by Jules Verne’s “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.”
Inspiration Gallery is filled with works that symbolize the life force of nature. Charles Baudelaire’s “Correspondences” inspired Galle’s desire to create harmony between man and nature through reasoning and humbling oneself.
To embody the philosophy, the gallery has set up pieces inside this section at different heights to allow visitors to see the glass artworks from contrasting perspectives. “The idea came from Korea’s traditional housing having connecting themes of man and ‘floor’,” says Carlsson, “not to mention the nature of Seopjikoji’s ever transforming weather, the beautiful scenery and the horizon seen from sitting on a rock, which were all types of impressions to me.”
The museum also features “Shining Glass,” a piece of art that doubles as a mirror reflecting the nature found both outside and inside. The narrow colored glass along the outer walls can become an open field, a mountain ridge, the sky of the ocean depending on your perspective. The effect depends on the visitor’s direction of observation, the frame expanding alongside the walk.
Between 1890 and 1910, the Art Noveau movement was prevalent in paintings, furniture pieces and glassworks all over in Europe. Compared to the mass-produced artworks of the time, the Art Noveau glasswork artisans reached masterful peaks of artistry when their handiwork and new techniques were developed in conjunction with each other, for instance.
“Parisian glass crafting was standardized as industry,” says arts scholar Ahn Ye-jin, “but the Nancy region’s works feature realism in comparison.” The technology and creativity were combined to create something that is to this day considerably unique.
Admission is 12,000 won ($10.67) for adults and 9,000 won for children. A mini shuttle ride is available in front of the lobby for free, passing through Glass House on the way and back. Regular docents are available four times a day from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., but are limited to twenty people.
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