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CHANG UCCHIN MUSEUM IN YANGJU |
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Chang Ucchin is a Korean painter who worked from 1960 to 1990, using landscape, animals and family as main subjects, in a way that is both related to oriental and modern western painting. The museum had to be designed as the painter's special space, relating to its own esthetical universe. Elements found in his paintings - the room, the tiger's body, figures floating in landscapes- gave the first impulse for the museum spatial and formal definition |
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The museum space is designed like a house in which simple rooms meant to recall the "mental views" of a family house room, a recurrent image in Chang's work. The slightly awkward rooms were then placed in regard of each other and in relation to the surrounding landscape. By their connection into one space the rooms would then form a body; the tiger's body, floating in a Korean landscape. |
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The first level is a long gallery circuit that opens to various views on the valley and surrounding mountains. It is a promenade in a large house, where the art is displayed in a varied street-like context, as opposed to a pure, out-of-the world perfect museum space. The visitor turns around a central courtyard and comes back to a staircase that unfolds in the entrance space. |
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The second level is a sequence of hidden attic rooms designed to contain the small scale works of the painter. They are connected to each other and give a few small openings to outside spaces. A large double-height room unites both levels through a mezzanine. |
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The museum is a house, a collection of small masses aggregated to create an ambiguous form. The building shape and the white polycarbonate facades reflect the absence of weight that can be felt in the painter's work; small scaled representation of seemingly naive figures. |
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Interior materials are plain; all elements are reduced to simple geometrical surfaces. This apparent simplicity of architectural language works in sympathy with Chang UcChin's research for weightlessness and simple, direct expression. |
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attic exhibition room |
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Chang UcChin Museum |
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