• Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.141-155
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• 2021

This study aims to consider characteristics of the scenography in terms of directorial viewpoints of Belgian director Ivo Van Hove(1958~) and define indefinite realities through his production, The Fountainhead. Van Hove has gained worldwide fame with his dramatic and spectacular stage production and audience participation in his production Roman Tragedies. I paid attention to the spatial aesthetics of director Van Hove, which supports such bold stage production. I believed that his philosophy of space would exist behind his sophisticated space concept. Also, if you look closely at his work's spatial characteristics, you will find elements that capture the essence of his work and lead to a performative transition of the audience. Therefore, I would like to find out in detail how these elements were applied to the work The Fountainhead and conduct researches on the spatial characteristics of Van Hove's production. In particular, The Fountainhead shows a unique stage language through Van Hove's space production, and it is considered as the best work to study the characteristics of Van Hove's space production through a hero architect Howard Roak. In other words, I judged that through Roark as a persona, I could find a link between Van Hove's spatial aesthetics and directorial scenography. I hope that active following researches on Van Hove's spatial aesthetics could be conducted in the future, and this study would be a small starting point for his research on directorial scenography.