Yang Ying-Feng | Stainless Steel Landscape Sculpture: Mirror Surface and Eastern Virtual-Real

A large outdoor sculpture composed of polished stainless steel plates bent, cut, and assembled: the forms are mostly simple geometries—circles, squares, arcs—but they interpenetrate and create a interplay of solid and void, often with a central cut-out void or gap that draws the sky and surrounding buildings into the work. The mirrored surface fully reflects and distorts the environment, so the appearance of the work is entirely dependent on where it is placed. The forms are inspired by traditional Chinese Tai Chi, landscape painting, and Wei-Jin lines, but the materials and construction methods are modern industrial. The work rests directly on the paving, with a minimalist base. Shot during the day, the reflections of the sky and buildings on the mirrored surface and the contours of the solid form are visible simultaneously. Avoid: matte non-reflective surface, adding realistic details to the form, removing the central void, making the base thick and heavy.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

以拋光的不鏽鋼板彎折、切割、組合成的大型戶外雕塑:形體多為單純的幾何——圓、方、弧片——但彼此穿插、虛實相生,中央常有一個被切開的空洞或缺口,把天空與周圍的建築引進作品之中。鏡面的表面把環境完整反射並扭曲,因此作品的外觀完全取決於它被放在哪裡。造形的來源是中國傳統的太極、山水與魏晉的線條,但材料與工法是現代工業的。作品直接落在鋪面上,基座極簡。日間拍攝,鏡面上的天空與建築反射與實體的輪廓同時可見。避免:表面霧面不反射、形體加入寫實細節、拿掉中央的虛空、基座做得厚重。