点评:Like most visitors to Adelaide, we strolled through Rundle Mall, the city’s main shopping centre. We were not much interested in shopping but its a nice mall, with several striking sculptures and often street performers too.
The Malls Balls is the most eye-catching of all the sculptures in Rundle Mall. What you see here is a 4 metre tall sculpture consisting of two massive, shiny and highly reflective stainless steel balls, one on top of the other.
Sadly, its not really called The Malls Balls. I wish it was. Instead, its official name is the much less colourful, 'The Spheres’.
For kids the sculpture is a bit like a carnival Hall of Mirrors. The shiny polished steel surfaces capture images in all directions and they can run freely around it, enjoying their own distorted reflections.
It makes a good photograph too, as the length of Rundle Mall gets doubly reflected in each of the balls.
It is the work of the international artist, Bert Flugelman. A similarly shiny work by Flugelman stands in the Sydney CBD as a memorial to William Dobell. Another, ‘Cones’ is in the Sculpture Garden at the National Art Gallery in Canberra.
翻译:和大多数来阿德莱德的游客一样,我们漫步在这座城市的主要购物中心——朗德尔购物中心。我们对购物没什么兴趣,但它确实是一个不错的购物中心,里面有几座引人注目的雕塑,而且经常有街头表演。
“购物中心球”是朗德尔购物中心所有雕塑中最引人注目的。您在这里看到的是一个4米高的雕塑,由两个巨大、闪亮且反光极强的不锈钢球组成,一个叠在另一个上面。
可惜的是,它实际上并不叫“购物中心球”。我希望它叫这个名字。相反,它的官方名称是色彩淡得多的“球体”。
对孩子们来说,这座雕塑有点像嘉年华的镜厅。闪亮的抛光钢表面可以捕捉各个方向的图像,孩子们可以在它周围自由奔跑,欣赏自己扭曲的倒影。
它也能拍出很棒的照片,因为朗德尔购物中心的长度在每个球上都反射出双重影像。
这是国际艺术家伯特·弗鲁格尔曼的作品。弗鲁格尔曼的一件同样光彩夺目的作品矗立在悉尼中央商务区,作为对威廉·多贝尔的纪念。另一件作品《锥体》(Cones)则收藏于堪培拉国家美术馆的雕塑花园。