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Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage, Sea Cranes and Peaches, Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage, Sea Cranes and Peaches, to Be Showcased Following Conservation and Restoration Treatments
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Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage, Sea Cranes and Peaches, Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage, Sea Cranes and Peaches, to Be Showcased Following Conservation and Restoration Treatments

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Exclusive Preview of Overseas Cultural Heritage Following Completion of Conservation and Restoration Work / December 4, 2020 ? January 10, 2021, National Palace Museum of Korea

The National Palace Museum of Korea (Director: Kim Dong-Young), an affiliate of the Cultural Heritage Administration of Korea, and the Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Foundation (Chairperson: Choi EungChon) jointly present the special exhibition Sea Cranes and Peaches howcasing the folding screen of the same title from the Dayton Art Institute in the United States that has been recently restored in Korea. The exhibition will be held from December 4, 2020 through January 10, 2021 at the National Palace Museum of Korea.

The exhibition presents the folding screen entitled Sea, Cranes and Peaches (a theme known as haehakbandodo in Korean) held in the collection of the Dayton Art Institute in the United States. The work had been brought to Korea as a part of the Overseas Cultural Heritage Conservation and Utilization Support Project of the Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Foundation. With its conservation and restoration recently completed, the work will be exhibited before being sent back to allow the Korean public an opportunity to view the work for the first time.

Haehakbandodo (海鶴蟠桃圖) refers to a type of painting that emphasizes the sea (海, hae), cranes (鶴, hak), and peaches (蟠桃, bando) among the motifs associated with sipjangsaengdo (十長生圖, paintings of the ten longevity symbols). The theme became popular in the royal court in the late Joseon era, and significant number of examples were produced for various state events, including the wedding ceremony of crown princes.

The peaches featured in haehakbandodo ripened every three thousand years and thus symbolize longevity. As a part of the mystical landscape of the immortal world  that provides the main subject matter of sipjangsaengdo, the cranes, sea and peach trees in haehakbandodo embody wishes for eternal life.
* Sipjangsaengdo: painting depicting the ten symbols of longevity ? the sun, mountains, water, rocks, clouds, pine trees, lingzhi mushroom, turtles, deer and cranes.

Sea, Cranes and Peaches in the Dayton Art Institute collection is a rare example of a haehakbandodo with gold leaf applied to the background. It is also the largest (painting: 210.0 × 720.5 ㎝) of the surviving haehakbandodo folding screens. Although initially created as a folding screen, it was reformatted into six panels after being taken to the United States in the 1920s. With support from the Cultural Heritage Administration of Korea and the Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation (CEO: Cho Yongman), the work was restored to its original state through a sixteen-month restoration process.

The National Palace Museum is pleased to present the folding screen in a space specially designed to allow full immersion, complemented by a video exploring its details and documenting conservation process.

An online international symposium will be held in conjunction with the exhibition. The participants include a representative of the Dayton Art Institute, experts on painting from Korea and Japan, and a specialist who took part in the conservation treatment. The symposium will be available to view online via the YouTube channel of the Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Foundation.

Period: November 27 (Fri) ? December 25 (Fri). 2020
YouTube Channel of the Overseas Cultural Heritage Foundation:
https://www.youtube.com/user/okchf

Moreover, special giveaway events will be held. All visitors to the exhibition will be given bread in the shape of the peaches featured on the Sea, Cranes and Peaches as a way of wishing them good health, and high school seniors who bring their identification slip for the suneung (College Scholastic Ability Test) will receive a file folder featuring the image of the Sea, Cranes and Peaches (as supplies last).

Since 2015, the National Palace Museum of Korea has been offering the Korean public opportunities to view Korean cultural heritage housed in the collections of overseas museums and cultural institutions that has undergone conservation and restoration treatment with support from the Cultural Heritage Administration and the Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Foundation before it is returned to its home institution. Since 2013, the Overseas Korean Cultural Heritage Foundation has supported the conservation and restoration of forty-three overseas Korean cultural properties from twenty-three institutions across eight nations. It continues to work hard on behalf of the maintenance and management of the original state of Korean cultural heritage located abroad.

The Cultural Heritage Administration will continue to exert its utmost efforts to elevate the conservation and utilization of overseas Korean cultural heritage through its support programs. Moreover, it will strive to widely promote overseas Korean cultural heritage and offer opportunities for its appreciation through exhibitions.