‘뮌스터 조각 프로젝트’의 공공성과 공공장소 미술의 가능성 연구

A Study on the Publicness and the Reverse Function of Art in Public Place on the Sculpture Projects Muenst

Recent major international exhibitions contain self-examining characteristics about "Art" and "Exhibition" itself. Especially, place and specification of place are emphasized at exhibitions of sculpture and solid geometrical (or three-dimensional) works are making people to think of art in public area. The scope of this research study, focused on Sculpture projects Muenster 2007, is to observe the problems of function and reverse function of fine arts in public. Since its debut in 1977, the Sculpture Projects has been held in the average-sized university town of Muenster in Germany every ten years, and it was inaugurated in its fourth installment in 2007. In this project, the contemporary sculpture and installation were presented by about 170 international artists including who has also participated in the past. This exhibition has provided a role to debate on the relationship of distinct forms between art and viewers. The government brought the art as an appeasement for the urban redevelopment projects and The Sculpture Project Muenster has been started to improve understanding of the general public of contemporary art Also each exhibition has been held with distinct themes which emphasize the specification of place or the significance of public art. On this thesis, it has considered contemporary sculpture, especially on argument about public art, focused on the theme of The Sculpture Projects Muenster and related works. In this respect, the phase of art in public place is defined "the art of public sphere" and "public", also grasp its characteristic. In the following place, a phase of site specificity is searched changing the idea of art, distinguishing marks of place, and specific art in historical site out of the expansion of the idea of sculpture and the autonomy idea of art. In the next phase, one place to another, space in the city of art and cultural study of communication are considered. Moreover, through the function and the reverse function of art in public place, it is focused on success and failure of public art, and its new awareness and discourse.