In This study, the author of this paper applies Walter Benjamin's allegory to the main production method of the author's artworks in order to understand how each component works and to analyze a way of exposing the author's intention. The author subst...
In This study, the author of this paper applies Walter Benjamin's allegory to the main production method of the author's artworks in order to understand how each component works and to analyze a way of exposing the author's intention. The author substitutes formative language for the concept of Benjamin's 'Passage', Nostalgia and Bluebird syndrome, and uses a way that reflects this to flat surface allegorically.
The purpose of the study is to describe the meaning of these allegorical components and a reflected method in the artworks.
This study is made up of three chapters. In Chapter 1, it shows overall direction and purpose that the author wants to describe. Also it discusses about the author's intention of work production and the method.
In Chapter 2, this paper develops a theoretical background of the author's intention by classifying it in detail.
First, to explain the concept of 'allegory', this paper describes the changing history of allegory from premodern to Benjamin. This paper discusses the difference between 'symbol' and 'allegory', and develops a difference of status between them in premodern society that put emphasis on the unity through specific examples. Moreover, this paper describes a concept of allegory that revalued by Benjamin and describes a development direction of the concept after Benjamin through allegory theory of the two philosophers, Paul Be Man and Owens.
In sequence, this paper reflects concrete concepts of the author's artworks such as 'Passage project', 'Bluebird syndrome' and 'Nostalgia'.
In chapter 3, this paper explains that theoretical background, developed in chapter 2, is reflected allegorically in author's work by any formal language. Isolated silhouette in canvas represents the closed space. The alignment and repetition of steel structure and vertical element that are the most significant feature of the constructivist passage architecture, is expressed with the vertical lines that cross the image. And images that are overlapped with the silhouette mean nostalgia of past glories that fell in circumstances in the continuity of time. The isolated silhouette and vertical lines are used as devices that hold an image of relics of the past in a way that uses a bird cage as design motifs and reinterprets it. From the pathological point, a bluebird that crosses such picture is interpreted as the contemporary people who live in the present.