The present study is about the method of spatialization among the characteristics of conceptual art, aiming at examining the method of motive configuration and the media characteristic and spatial characteristics of motives, and understanding the char...
The present study is about the method of spatialization among the characteristics of conceptual art, aiming at examining the method of motive configuration and the media characteristic and spatial characteristics of motives, and understanding the characteristics of spaces in conceptual art through comparing cases of public space design.
Since ?efine art?f was separated as an area of aesthetics in the late 18th century, it has been developed into an independent genre expressing an extensive range of motives. Motives in fine art mainly reproduced forms and expressed mental images, and since modernism they have included artists?f analytical ideas such as questions on the methods of cognition and exploration for the functions of arts.
The maximization of motives may result in the weakening of types. As an extreme case, it was maintained that art works can be created only with concepts without types and this is conceptual art. Conceptual art means a trend since 1960, which put concept in the front instead of surface, namely, type. Its unceasing pursuit of the answer to the reflective question ?gWhat is art??h rather resulted in the expansion of art genres in the aspect of type. The analytical and reflective thought provided an opportunity for reestablishing fine art from ?eend?f to ?emeans,?f and had a considerable effect on increasing interest in the work of project trends and communication between individuals.
The most conspicuous space characteristic in conceptual art is intervention. Intervention is used to raise a question on a cognition method of traditional structure, and it arouses interest in context by stopping normal perception. The media characteristic of conceptual art that enables intervention is data type. A data type means a media type that visualizes actual works, concepts, actions, etc. into evidence, records, charts, etc. Experimental approach was used as ?ethe method of motive configuration,?f which is the most remarkable characteristic of conceptual art. The experimental approach is a configuration method that can visualize non?]material objects and intervene in a context of different information. In this way, the space characteristic of conceptual art is well represented in a space intervened in by a data type transformed by the experimental approach.
Publics space for communicating meanings like museums and exhibitions in the late 20th century attempt new designs beyond conventional views, and suggest the redefinition of ?gWhat is the space where communication is more possible??h The method of motive configuration in public space design, which functions as a vessel containing meanings, is used in the adaptive approach. This is symbolic expression by substituting the abstract and functional elements of different objects in the redefinition of ?gWhat is the space that enables communication??h In addition, the data characteristic of public spaces is the tuning relation between figurative data and operative data. A tuning relation means a type that assists, emphasizes and supplements the meaning of each other, and this is a different from the data type of conceptual art that raises questions by mutually different contexts. The most frequent methods of spatialization of public spaces are construction and repetition. This means that operative data and figurative data are not simply enumerated but are redeployed through expansion, reduction and transformation in a new context. In addition, forms and data are expressed repeatedly in order to emphasize the identity of meanings. In this way, the space characteristic of public spaces is well expressed in spaces where operative data and figurative data configured by the adaptive approach are restructured complementarily to each other.
Summing up, the space characteristic of expression that takes questions for redefining genres and concepts themselves as its motives begins with the trend of analyzing and informatizing objects. While the intervention of different data through experimental configuration is conspicuous in conceptual art, the constructivistic arrangement of data tuned by the adaptive approach is conspicuous in public spaces. Common characteristics of completed forms are intentional absence of expression rather than strong sensitivity, non?]emotionality and irreducible expression. Another characteristic is that motives are conveyed by data characteristic transparently to completed forms.