Reassessment of Formalism Artworks in the Framework of Semiotic Structuralism Critical Theory: A Case Study on Ismail Zain Artwork 7.pm

This essay aims to review a local artwork that can be classified within the formalism framework. The re-evaluation will use the theory of structuralism, in tandem with the reading of semiotics. More specifically this reading is assumed to expand and widen the reading of the application of tool and technique contained within this formalist artwork. Structuralism in this context is assumed to drive and explain in a more systematic way, the quality of the formalist artwork based on the basic compatibility of both ideological frameworks as well as bringing the work beyond a confining meaning.