- master¢¥s thesis

Study on the Sculpture based on Deconstructionism -Focusing on researcher's works-

                                                                                                                                      Kim, Euisik
                                                                                                                                      Department of Sculpture
                                                                                                                                      Graduate School of Fine Arts
                                                                                                                                      Hongik University
                                                                                                                                      Supervisor prof.
                                                                                                                                      Chung, Hyun


                                                                                             Abstract

 Nowadays, modern people are living in the era of chaos due to complicating and different social situations. In the world, restless conflicts, terrors and human rights' infringements are bing committed as well as the resistance towards the old enormous capitalism system. And the pressure from those affairs on individuals has never been this violent than ever. Behind these matters are anxious and desperation but, in conclusion, these are the common problem of existence which all modern people have. There is no choice but to experience this existential frustration for anyone who has serious and honesty point of view for the life. Heidegger once said that human-being faces zero, or nil, through death and that the anxious before the death shows the possibility of this zero. Then why human is such an anxious being and has no choice but to live in the endless anguish and lost feelings? The study aims at considering the answer for these human existential questions by analysing the researcher's(my) works.

 First of all, I investigated and found out that after 1970's work which used letter symbols has increasingly changed into the social ones. It leads to the step where the correspondence with the characteristic of post-modern arts is confirmed such as deconstruction of death and genre; and the change from the formality to content. And, therefore, I specifically interpreted the letter symbol's aspect of signifier based on the social standpoints. I borrowed the concept of Jacques Derrida's "Writing as a whole" which are écriture and différance. I also studied the similarities and differences between his concept of le jeu dans le langage and his letter concept of typography said in ¡ºGrammatologie¡»; and my works.
And then, I studied about the bone, which is one of my works' top two concepts: the bone and the writing, that what the bone means in anthropology and what similarities it has to do with the bone in my works. Through this study I explained why my work was about writing the letter on the bone and why it could attain the universality of human as well as meet the motivation of human being's aletheia by weaving into the universe through the vibration.

 Finally, I identified the status of my works above by discussing the similarities and differences by summarizing the works of Jenny Holzer, Sophie Calle and Henry Moore who are the precedent artists and whose works could give the hint to understand the characteristics of my works.
 Through this series of works, which is identifying the similarities and differences between the precedent artists' works and my works by researching the precedents' works; and establishing the theoretical reasons by analysing the formality and content of my works, I can assure the justness of my work activities.