Cultural weekend

We started off very culturally on Saturday - there was a Korean modern art exhibition in the Art Museum with a special event on that day. The kids joined the arts competition, tried on Korean national dress. There was a music performance and various displays that we enjoyed. To my big surprise however the actual exhibition turned out to be the biggest hit - not really an obvious combination - kids and modern art. But there were so many interesting pieces in that exhibition that we all really enjoyed it. Of course comments like - is that art? it is just a square!? One artist had 4 real size people portraits that looked like paintings from far away but turned out to be negative reliefs - which meant that when walking past them, it looks like the people in the pictures are moving with the viewer. Really cool - and we walked at least 10 times. Also quite fascinating were the digital pictures by another artist - he used traditional Korean landscape or bamboo motives on LCD screens that changed all the time. The weather, time of the day, even time long term. One of them looked like the skyline of Hong Kong with mountains in the background and boats in the front and then after a while from the fog appeared skyscrapers lit up in the night. The picture next to it was similar but with a small island and a temple on it. This one also changed so that all of a sudden there appeared a city of high rise buildings behind the mountains. Also the small fishing boats sailed from one picture into the other. Really fantastic! Then there was a whole big wall of colorful tiles with all sorts of object stuck to them, toys among them, so it was great for the kids to look for different objects that they recognized. Another great work was a glass floor with thousands of small people holding it up while standing very close to each other. We liked it so much and as it was the last weekend of the exhibition, sent messages to many friends and urged them to go and see it.

After the exhibition there was Korean food as well. And to complete the very Korean day boys had taekwondo class straight after!