Hwnankind has been producing vanous glass works for more than five thousand years. Despite such a long history of using glasses in daily life, it was only after the 196Os that glass began to be recognized as a valuable material for artworks. However, ...
Hwnankind has been producing vanous glass works for more than five thousand years. Despite such a long history of using glasses in daily life, it was only after the 196Os that glass began to be recognized as a valuable material for artworks. However, glass works are first associated with 'technology', and many glass works are
actually considered to be technological products. Glasses, however, transcend technological aspects in terms of its variability as a valuable art material. Thus, in order for glasses to position itself as a mainstream material of art successfully, a new notion of artistic world based on the glass should be established. This study aims at pursuing unity between space and glasses through glass- space artworks. The spiral shapes of glass works that are made using the blowing technique are innovated into new forms for arts works to be installed in a space with the spiral form as a motive. In order to do that, this study first inquires into the symbolism of the spiral shapes by looking into various myths and legends associated with the form in every part of the world. The study then compares and contrasts the modem glass works of modem art based on research of various theories. What it ultimately aims to achieve is to suggesting and interpreting the potential of various forms of glass art. The actual stage of producing glass works for this study will be an opportunity to inquire
into the human psychology and ideas and visualize them in modem sense by analyzing and studying the spiral forms of art works. This study intends to form a new world of art, with the spiral form, glass, and space as the three main subjects. In other words, it intends to define what glass can be for the art of space, viz. the art of space-glass(Glass Space Art). This study thereby aims to provide new directions and potentials for modem glass art and exhibit the new glass works produced on the basis of the study. This study is mainly composed of the actual production of glass works, and an essay is to provide supplementary information. The essay aims to explain the production of the works in more depth.