The lecture is launched in conjunction with the "Gorgeous Growth: Yan Shilin Sculpture Exhibition" of the Long Museum (West Bund). Wun Jin, the curator of the China Emerging Painting Award and the producer of "Hi Art" magazine, is invited to discuss the emerging new generation of sculpture power and the creative style and development of young sculptors. As the curator of "Gorgeous Growth -Yan Shilin Sculpture Exhibition" and the initiator of the Hi Art "New Sculpture" group exhibition, Wu Jin hopes to bring the power of young sculptors together, to present such power to the audiences and to guide them to interpret the characteristics of the personal styles of young sculptors.

"I often tell people that among Chinese figurative sculptors, after Xiang Jing, the most powerful person is Yan Shilin. I told them a few years ago, people did not believe me. But now everyone seems to believe it. Compared to painting, I always feel that sculpture is more difficult. There are many more problems that an artist has to consider in three-dimensional space than in plane. I have tried it myself. In the list of highly respected artists, Michelangelo has been a god-like existence for many years. Unfortunately, I have not been able to find the same figure around me, with strong rationality and abundant emotions. In contemporary Chinese figurative sculptures, one of the most recent outstanding artists is Xiang Jing. Among the predecessor artists, You Hua Tian is a great figure, Pan He once had touching works, and Tian Shixin’s works are also simple and powerful...Yan Shilin fits all my imaginations of a sculptor, and even his simplicity and naiveness sometimes seem to be taken for granted."

 ——Wu Jin