This thesis is a work study that attempted to convert fibers into tactile structures and spatial expandability by paying attention to the soft and warm sensitivity of fibers. The purpose of this study is to establish a researcher’s own formative lan...
This thesis is a work study that attempted to convert fibers into tactile structures and spatial expandability by paying attention to the soft and warm sensitivity of fibers. The purpose of this study is to establish a researcher’s own formative language by exploring a new expression method for fiber object and establishing a theoretical and methodological foundation. In art history, the beginning of object art is considered to be the work of the Cubist painter Picasso in the early 20th century. The object art began when cubist artists put the object itself on the canvas in rejection of traditional reproduction art. 1913?14 Duchamp expressed sculptural potential with an atypical element of sewing thread. And after he presented the typewriter cover as a ready-made object and introduced flexibility to sculpture, artists presented various expressions that liberate form from absolute fixity. ‘Soft Sculpture’, attempted by Claes Oldenburg in the 1960s, presented various object expressions of indeterminate forms using textiles. The accidental and nondeterministic form created by textile materials, which appeared mainly in process art, made possible to express a new form of three-dimensional expression. As art combined with nature and environment in the 1970s and the narrative function of art became important after the 1980s, expressions using textile media emerged as experimental and avant-garde methods with a large scale or metaphorical content. As such, the trend of works using textile media follows the development of modern art, and generally shows an experimental and avant-garde expression centered on expressions based on non-deterministic and accidental forms created by textile properties or the will to express as an artist. Therefore, this thesis focused on two issues. First, the delicate sensibility, which is a unique aspect of fibers. This is because soft and warm sensibility is a unique characteristic of only fibers. Second is the awareness of the unstable form caused by the flexibility of the fibers. The solution to this was to find the combination with rigid structures.
Therefore, in the researcher’s work presented in this paper, tactile and fixed form became two axes of the new methodology. In addition, the location of the work was to be solved in the relationship with the internal structure of the architecture. A work acquires its meaning while existing in the specific space. In the relationship between architecture and art, the stylistic characteristics of modern architecture, which changed to flat walls and empty spaces without decoration, served as an opportunity to promote the formative
and functional combination with paintings and sculptures. In such a flow, fiber objects are also expanding their role by forming various internal spaces with their unique texture and soft and fluid expression.
This thesis sought a method of expressing tactile fiber objects and attempted their scalability in the internal space. As an expression method for this, it was classified into three items: ‘texture of fibers’, ‘combination of unit elements’, and ‘relationship with spatial structure’, and each formative definition and characteristic were examined through analysis of other artists’ works. First, the visual tactile texture of the thread was a mixture of the thickness of the thread, twisting, raw materials of the fiber, mow of the surface, cross-sectional structure, light absorption and reflection. Sheila Hicks, who has explored the materiality of fibers and its structural potential, combined the true texture and color to present the sensitivity of fibers in various ways in flat, relief, and three-dimensional forms. Eva Hesse, a sculptor who has been exploring soft properties, sensibly expressed soft materials such as threads, straps, and ropes in space through confrontation with hard structures. Second, the combination of unit elements provides convenience and economy in production, and variability, construction, and scalability in expression. Carl Andre, who introduced the concept of horizontality to sculpture, composed the entire work only with the unique properties of matter, their arrangement, and combination. Dan Flavin, who has been experimenting with the effect of light in space, proposed various constructive structures with only a single element of standardized fluorescent light. Third, the perception of the vertical horizontality of the internal structure becomes a system that enables various approaches to the spatial composition. Donald Judd, who organically considered the relationship between work and space, accepted space as an element of work so that viewers could experience it as a whole, along with the movement to realize the integration of art and architecture and art and life. In order to produce research works that transfer and expand the sensitivity of fibers into space, the methodology was organized into 'visual tactileity', 'construction and fragmentation', and 'space composition'. First, in order to highlight the substance of the thread, which is the main material used in production, and to compensate for the vulnerability, the thread was converted into a fixed material unit with a sense of mass by combining it with linear building materials with solid strength. Second, visual clues were found in the structure related to the thread and the morphological similarity of pipes and wires, which are internal elements of the building. Based on this, elements reduced in unit form were structured through three methods: repetitive assembly, continuous arrangement, dismantling, and combination. Finally, it was applied to the spatial composition using the cross-arrangement of linear and lumps, geometric divisional arrangement, and three-dimensional spatial divisional arrangement method.
The 30 research works completed through this process were analyzed by dividing them into ‘tactile lump’, ‘combination of fragments’, and ‘spatial expansion of sense’. The tactile units were integrated, continuous, deconstructed and combined to expand according to the internal structure of walls, floors, and corners and presented flexibly. By positioning structures visualizing delicate sensibility as individual beings throughout the space, the space was transformed into a gentle sensibility, through which the experience of the warm senses and emotions of fibers could be shared and a consensus was formed. This study was about presenting a new expression of structural objects with tactile sensitivity and attempts to expand the sense in the inner space. It
is expected that this study, which started with attention to the tactile nature of fibers and a methodical alternative to shape instability created by flexible physical properties, will present a new perspective and lead to the expansion of fiber object