This thesis examines my artworks created between 2022 and 2025 as its primary research subject and develops the study by focusing on theoretical background and perception, practical formative characteristics and content, as well as formal materiality...
This thesis examines my artworks created between 2022 and 2025 as its primary research subject and develops the study by focusing on theoretical background and perception, practical formative characteristics and content, as well as formal materiality and techniques. Based on a conceptual framework that recognizes contemporary landscape space as heterotopic, this study explains the realization of heterotopic space through geometric landscape and systematically organizes the media and techniques employed in this process.
Chapter I, the Introduction, reviews the purpose and necessity of the research, its content and methodology, and its significance. It presents the research objectives based on the background that led to the initiation of this study and clarifies the necessity of the research. The chapter explains the research content and methods, structured around the key concepts and sculptural methodologies addressed in the main body, and discusses the significance of the study in terms of both the universality and distinctiveness of the artwork-based research.
Chapter II takes the concept of heterotopia as its theoretical core and examines the heterotopic characteristics of contemporary landscape space as perceived and interpreted through this concept. Heterotopia, as proposed by Paul-Michel Foucault(1926-1984), is examined through its fundamental definition, six principles, and the types and examples that reflect these principles. Accordingly, the heterotopic characteristics of contemporary landscape space are explained through these six principles. Based on the first and second principles of heterotopia, landscape space characterized by deviation and the non-everyday function as spaces of rest and healing, ecological greening, and destinations for travel. According to the third and fourth principles, landscape space possesses multiplicity and temporality. Based on the fifth and sixth principles, landscape space is characterized as a space of opening and closure, simultaneously embodying permeability and isolation while containing an inherent ordered structure.
Chapter III explains the realization of heterotopic space through geometric landscape, dividing the discussion into the formative characteristics of geometric landscape and the implementation of heterotopic space. It presents the framework and artificial structures of geometric landscape formed through experiences of viewing contemporary landscape space as a space of deviation and the non-everyday. Through artwork analysis, this chapter elaborates on the formative characteristics of geometric landscape, focusing on the partitioned composition of straight lines and color planes. By presenting the process through which geometric landscape develops from a fixed viewpoint to multiple viewpoints, it demonstrates sculptural methods that expand spatial perception through the use of multiple perspectives.
Based on the formative characteristics of geometric landscape, the realization of heterotopic space is explained through three aspects: non-everyday landscape spaces constructed through deconstruction and recombination; geometric landscape as a space where artificial and natural elements intersect; and spaces of opening and closure composed through the geometric form of mountains. Grounded in the second principle of heterotopia proposed by Foucault, geometric landscape centered on scholar’s rocks reconstructs non-everyday landscape space through processes of deconstruction and recombination. Geometric landscape as an intersecting space of artificial and natural elements realizes heterotopic space characterized by multiplicity, as proposed in the third principle of heterotopia, through the juxtaposition of interior architectural spaces, natural landscapes, and signage. Finally, spaces of opening and closure, in accordance with the fifth principle of heterotopia, are constructed through the geometric forms of mountains.
Chapter IV systematically organizes the media and techniques used to construct geometric landscape forms based on the artwork production process. In the section on ink and color painting on jangji(traditional Korean paper) combined with glass beads, the effects of using jangji and adhesives are compared and presented through both experimental tests and practical works. The layering of ink and color pigments is explained according to the sequence applied in the production process. The chapter also examines painting techniques employing rollers and glass beads through examples drawn from the artworks. Furthermore, the utilization of printmaking, mural, and sculptural media is examined, focusing on planar experiments in multicolor woodblock printing, layering techniques using fabric and clay, and production processes employing woodblocks and mold-formed porcelain plates.
Chapter V, the Conclusion, summarizes the contents of each chapter and presents the conclusions of the study. It reflects on the limitations identified through the research and proposes directions for future research.