Garden / Hoam Art Museum, traditional garden ‘Heewon’

• Hoam Art Museum, which opened in 1982 based on Korean traditional art, is affiliated with the Samsung Cultural Foundation. Fifteen years later, the conventional garden ‘Heewon’ was created to celebrate the ‘Cultural Heritage Year’ and the 15th anniversary of its opening, showing ‘the beauty of our traditional garden,’ which is rarely found today.
  
  Korean garden was a perfect tribute to the absolute and purest utopia, 'the purity of nature.' Therefore, the beauty of Korean gardens is the heart of our ancestors, who longed for the purity of nature and accepted the principles inherent in human life as their roots by conforming to them.
  
  In Heewon, a traditional garden, the will to revive the original aesthetic conscious of a Korean garden is hidden everywhere. It contains the beauty that does not remain in the scenery inside the wall and the infinitely warm emotion emitted by the view inside and outside the fence.
  
  Traditional garden  Heewon that restores the old topography and preserves architectural elements such as stone altars,  gazebo, ponds, and fences, based on the 'borrowed scenery principle,' the source of the traditional garden aesthetics, is being reborn as a living and breathing space through the hidden and revealed flexible style of gardens and buildings. In particular, precious stone objects such as stone pagodas from the Silla period, which the Hoam Art Museum has been collecting with great care, Buddha statues, traditional totem poles, stone lanterns, and stone mortars made by nameless stonemasons are cleverly arranged throughout the garden to harmonize as a part of the garden naturally.
  
  ‘Heewon’ space is composed of Bohwamun, Bamboo Forest, Sowon(Small Garden), Jujeong (Main Garden), Stream, Flower Wall, Yangdae, Woldae, Eupcheongmun, Backyard, and Bourdelle Garden.
  
  'Bohwamun,' the entrance to Heewon, is a gate built with stones based on the traditional pattern and shape of Yuhyeonmun of Deoksugung, not very big, but classy with a beautiful appearance. Passing the Bohwamun Gate, a lush 'Bamboo Forest' awaits. Following the path through the bamboo forest, the friendly expressions of traditional totem poles, which are displayed shyly as if hidden, harmonize with the sound of the wind and Korean grasses such as fern and ivies, creating a more elegant atmosphere.
  
  Sowon (Small Garden) is a small garden consisting of Hwagye, Seokgasan, a pond (Suhyangji), and a pavilion (Gwaneumjeong) with two feet soaked in the pond, built at the end of a mountain that was revived by considering the old topography of Gasilri. Gwaneumjeong, which boasts a graceful appearance looking at the strange rocks lying on the water's surface as if submerged, and the mountain in front, gives off an autumn atmosphere with the fragrance of all kinds of chrysanthemums including the wild chrysanthemum.
  
  Jujeong (Main Garden), the center of Heewon, located in the center of the Hoam Art Museum, consists of a square pond (Beopyeonji) in the center, a pavilion (Hoamjeong), which seems to lean gently at the foot of a mountain, a small waterfall and stream, a large stone platform built with sincerity, and three flower stairs. To the east is a mountain covered with pine trees, to the west is Gwaneumjeong Pavilion, to the north is an art gallery, and to the south is a beautiful mountain and lake, showing the essence of a traditional garden where the inside and outside of the fence harmonize and all nature is the main components of the garden.
  
  In addition, there is a stream originating from Hoamjeong and reaching a small pond through the side door, flower walls with Korean decorations, and Yangdae and Woldae. In the backyard, the deepest part of the garden, long flower stairs are stacked with pole stone and a black brick fence is placed on it. Various ornamental stones, stone works, trees from the garden, and flowers from flower stairs harmonize together to create a world of contemplation in a cozy atmosphere.
  
   
  Bourdelle Garden
  Along with the opening of the traditional garden “Heewon,” Bourdelle Garden was opened with nine large sculptures by Bourdelle (1861-1928), the master of modern French sculpture. The large-scale artworks here were collected in 1983 and 1985 by the late Lee Byung-Cheol, founder of the Samsung Group and founder of Hoam Art Museum, which includes the five works ‘Great Horse’ and ‘Four Statues (Strength, Victory, Freedom, Eloquence)’ produced as a monument to the Argentine independence hero ‘General Alvear,’ ‘Hercules the Archer,’ ‘Polish Epic,’ ‘The Birth of Aphrodite,’ and ‘Sappho Statue.
  
  In the center of the garden, which adopted the classical style of the work, a typical French garden style considering the creative intention and themes, were placed the 'Great Horse' and 'Four Statues' of <Monument to General Alveard>, and the 'Hercules the Archer,' Bourdelle's representative work, was positioned in a separate space. The above works are the only large-scale Western modern sculptures in Korea.'

• Hoam Art Museum, traditional garden ‘Heewon’
• Location | Gyeonggi
• Site Area | approx. 66,000 ㎡  Completion | 1998  Scope | DD, CD