스튜디오 신유
Studio SHINYOO

“Our daily lives within the framework of tradition still interact with the modern world. The surface of the wooden pillars that face modern civilization is covered with mechanisms to preserve their material properties, but inside there is potential for new birth.”—excerpt from the artist statement

Studio SHINYOO is a group of designers who focus on the universal architectural structures connecting pillars to beams in both Eastern and Western traditions, and they create furniture by aesthetically patterning these elements. Studio SHINYOO’s series emphasizes the lines found in the forest and takes the form of a combination of vertical and horizontal straight lines. This furniture stacks and combines iron and glass—both man-made materials—on natural wood processed using traditional craft techniques, thus presenting a new form of harmony by crafting columns with fused structures and incorporating traditional East Asian techniques. The German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) once argued that columns are visual architectural elements distinct from walls. In this exhibition, Studio SHINYOO’s new work, , stands as a monumental sculpture that combines vertical columns with horizontal beams, revealing the identity of the columns as independent symbols and objects separate from the wall, rather than part of the wall surface.