Grotto Fine Art takes pleasure in presenting REFLECTIONS, the acclaimed Hong Kong sculpture Danny LEE Chin-fai’s first one-man exhibition since 2005.  Featuring Lee’s famous stainless steel sculpture, the exhibition captures the the artist’s exciting new venture in 3-dimensional fluidity, so-called “liquid steel”.  Rather than focusing on the material’s volume and mass, Lee’s pieces, stemmed in Chinese painting tradition, are tangible manifestations of literati landscapes. 

Danny Lee Chin-fai’s stainless steel collection is best described as a total reflection.  On one hand, they reflect the artist’s conceptual focus on karma and attention to everyday object.  Inspired by traditional Chinese landscape, Lee’s waterfalls and rain drops bring forth a sense of fluidity that resemble calligraphic brushwork, particularly that of cursive script.  The other dimension of Lee’s work is his loyalty to materials.  Constructed with precision and highly polished, they are mirrors that generate images of the surrounding as well as reflections of their beholders.  Twisted and warped due to the curvature of the surface, we see ourselves living precariously within a shiny shell only to realise the opposite side of reality.  Images within the reflection are truthful but not identical.  They show the world in reverse and complete the cycle of cause and effect.    It is this double-image that perfectly put Lee’s sculpture within the realm of Daoism.  While Daoist painter uses positive and negative, painted and empty spaces to portray the duality of the world, Lee takes advantage of his materials intrinsic quality and, combines with form and treatment, creates a tangible and thoroughly contemporary definition of one of the oldest canons in Chinese art.