Yang Song
Yang Song’s sculptures are closely linked with traditional Chinese culture. His artistic practice reflects his own struggle between personal identity and social relations. Yang Song is an extroverted introvert. He has profound thinking and understanding of religion and philosophy. In recent years, Yang Song has also tried various media besides sculpture, such as images and installations. He loves freedom, speed and adventure, and adds his travel experience to the creation of his works. Most of his works tend to explore themselves in order to approach and find the essence of life.
Yang Song uses clay as his material, condenses his emotion into the molding, and ritualizes this effort. This kind of emotional creative method is related to the enlightenment brought to him by remnant sculptures at ancient temples. He transferred this emotion to express his sorrow for the fate of relatives or acquaintances around him, which is a relatively universal feeling. Therefore, although his works are quiet, they contain strong emotions in details. These feelings are abstract and unfathomable. “The soil is elastic. Holding the knife, I can feel the same counter force the same way body does as it goes up and down with pressure. As if it were alive. “Soil is a material that life grows and dies, which coincides with the theme. The video work “Die(2014)” came into being. He made a portrait sculpture out of mud, placed it in the water, and photographed the whole process of the sculpture decompose in the water. The process gives time a sense of elapse and fluidity, which is closer to truth than a static sculpture is.
Last year, Yang Song created some metal installations, which reflected his view on the relationship between speed, light, time and space in the opposite direction. He said that speed is violent and that it will eliminate time and space. Even the viewer and the work itself will be swept in the violence of speed. When an object accelerates to the speed of light, it disappears in situ. Yang Song used machinery to accelerate the rotation of the sculpture. The outline of the sculpture gradually disappeared. The speed adhered time and space. The faster the speed, the more viscous space and time became. The place and other places became blurred and even merged at this time. This is not the fate of work, are we not involved in the wave of the information age? The metal itself represents a kind of high-speed entrapment in the post-industrial era. We are like gyroscopes, driven and busy by time, while our energy is limited. In the high-speed information age of 300,000 kilometers per second and every hour, all space and time are eliminated. This is irreversible speed pollution, and the ultimate goal is to eliminate real space and time. Everything involved in this speedy violence becomes a transparent but impenetrable lonely phantom.
ARTWORKS
Laser carved aluminum plate, stainless steel wire
150 x 150 x 9 cm
2023
Stainless steel plate, steel wire
350 x 200 x 9cm
2023
Laser carved aluminum plate, stainless steel wire
385 x 218 x 9 cm
2023
Laser carved aluminum plate, stainless steel wire
120 x 120 x 10 cm
2023
Laser carved aluminum plate, stainless steel wire
250 x 200 x 9 cm
2023
Nylon, wood, metal Frame
88 x 150 cm
2020
Video
4‘30‘’
Edition of 5 plus 1 artist’s proof
2021
Video
1’06”
Edition of 5 plus 1 artist’s proof
2021
Aluminum, CNC processing, anodized coloring
190 x 14 x 14 cm
Edition of 3 plus 1 artist’s proof
2021
Aluminum, CNC processing, anodized coloring
150 x 32 x 32 cm
Edition of 3 plus 1 artist’s proof
2021
Aluminum, CNC processing, anodized coloring
160 x 25 x 25 cm
Edition of 3 plus 1 artist’s proof
2021
Stainless steel plate, steel wire
122 x 122 x 9 cm
Edition of 3 plus 1 artist’s proof
2021
Stainless steel plate, steel wire
92 x 122 x 9 cm
Edition of 3 plus 1 artist’s proof
2021
Aluminum, CNC processing, anodized coloring
45 x 11 x 11 cm
Edition of 6 plus 1 artist’s proof
2021
Aluminum, CNC processing, anodized coloring
32 x 8.5 x 8.5 cm
Edition of 500 plus 1 artist’s proof
2021
Aluminum, CNC processing, anodized coloring
91 x 23 x 23 cm
Edition of 3 plus 1 artist’s proof
2021
Stainless steel plate, steel wire
40 x 32 x 6 cm
Edition of 3 plus 1 artist’s proof
2021
Stainless steel plate, steel wire
197 x 197 x 9 cm
Edition of 3 plus 1 artist’s proof
2021
Stainless steel plate, steel wire
51 x 42 x 6 cm
Edition of 3 plus 1 artist’s proof
2021
Stainless steel plate, steel wire
53 x 41 x 6 cm
Edition of 3 plus 1 artist’s proof
2021
Stainless steel plate, steel wire
43 x 30 x 6 cm
Edition of 3 plus 1 artist’s proof (#1/3)
2021
泥土
Clay
70 x 156 x 4 cm
2020
泥土
Clay
82.5 x 35 x 35 cm
2019
铸铝
Cast Aluminum
65 x 83 x 5 cm
2025
铸铝
Cast Aluminum
89 x 83 x 19 cm
2025
铝
Aluminum
120 x 120 cm
2022
不锈钢丝，石头
Stainless steel wire, stone
61 x 61 x 7 cm
2025
不锈钢丝，石头
Stainless steel wire, stone
61 x 61 x 7 cm
2025
纸上素描
Sketch on paper
90 x 60 cm
2017
纸上素描
Sketch on paper
90 x 60 cm
2017
石头，不锈钢丝，玻璃，LED
Stone, stainless steel wire, glass, LED
68 x 19 x 19 cm
2025
石头，不锈钢丝，玻璃，LED
Stone, stainless steel wire, glass, LED
97 x 47 x 20 cm
2025
石头，不锈钢丝，玻璃，LED
Stone, stainless steel wire, glass, LED
95 x 21.5 x 34.5 cm
2025
石头，不锈钢丝，玻璃，LED
Stone, stainless steel wire, glass, LED
66 x 16.6 x 16.5 cm
2025
石头，不锈钢丝，玻璃，LED
Stone, stainless steel wire, glass, LED
73 x 20 x 20 cm
2025
石头，不锈钢，不锈钢丝
Stone, stainless steel, stainless steel wire
107 x 37 x 20 cm
2025
石头，不锈钢，不锈钢丝
Stone, stainless steel, stainless steel wire
122 x 23.5 x 23.5 cm
2025
石头，不锈钢，不锈钢丝
Stone, stainless steel, stainless steel wire
116 x 30 x 30 cm
2025
石头，不锈钢，不锈钢丝
Stone, stainless steel, stainless steel wire
96.5 x 20 x 25.5 cm
2025
石头，不锈钢，不锈钢丝
Stone, stainless steel, stainless steel wire
55 x 20 x 20 cm
2025
石头，不锈钢，不锈钢丝
Stone, stainless steel, stainless steel wire
60 x 93 x 70 cm
2025
Exhibitions
Vanishing Point – Yang Song
2021.07.11 – 2021.09.12
LI QUANSHAN & QIAN JIAHUA & YANG SONG – Under the Rainbow
2014.08.24 – 2014.10.13
Riss: Yang Song New Works
2025.04.13 – 2025.05.30
Publications
Under the Rainbow
Li Quanshan, Qian Jiahua, Yang Song
