Explore the Sculpture Park from Your Couch

“Concentration (I)” has a strong religious sentiment. Resting in a square blank of a wall on the right hand side of the museum’s entrance.

The Buddha head peacefully leans itself on its graceful mellow palm, regardless how quickly the white clouds in the blue sky flow by behind. In this busy outdoor area, it delivers a sense of tranquility, serving as the most attractive image of the museum entrance.

For its fun and mellow shape, bronze sculpture “Yun-Yung” is less heavy or cold than it otherwise can be. Instead, it feels amiable to visitors.

The girl sculpture is curvy like a cloud, and her straight braids seem to dance with winds. This makes her look joyous and innocent. The artwork speaks both abstract and figural vocabulary. Presenting the sculpture in a humorous way, whilst using a personalized artistic language, the artist well expresses his inner feelings.

“Luckiness” uses curves and a circle to show a sense of integration. The bronze sculpture comes with the color of dark red, making it look like a pomegranate. In Chinese culture, the fruit suggests “plenty of offspring.” The hollow space allows children to climb in, enabling this outdoor sculpture to be a part of visitors’ daily-life experiences. Traditional Chinese cultural elements such as the “general,” the “advisor,” and the “elephant” of Chinese chess, as well as persimmons, are also presented here to indicate “plenty of children, grandchildren, and blessings.”

What’s more, the artwork looks like a big bird ready to fly up to the sky when appreciated from afar – this suggests positive, rising strength.

This artwork shows a simple rectangular frame and a curled-up human figure within it.

Tilted outside the museum, the artwork indicates that, while modern civilization seems like a safe and solid “home” to many, and people often become prisoners in confined space. The human soul, oppressed and floating in a complicated way like the curled-up figure here, becomes all the more restless.

Laser-cut round and oblong iron plates ingeniously formulate this egg-shaped artwork.

The red color suggests that this is a passionate heart, while the shape indicates it can also be an airship ready for departure or a red bomb going to go off. It celebrates the coming of an auspicious New Year.