As well-known contemporary artists, Fang Lijun and Yin Zhaoyang are suffering the pains to move on from their existing artistic achievements in recent years. It is not difficult to find from their works that both of them are artists with strong personalities. They tenaciously pour the unbearable weight of being in their own creations; and their works are often filled with a sense of undeniable fierceness and surge. Although they choose different subjects and different ways of expressing, as a matter of fact, they are just two revolutionaries with dissimilar facial expressions on the layer of humanistic concern with art. With the deduction of life, the primal fights have calmed, cynicism has gradually melted in the flood of life; and the silently violent youth is heading to eternity. The two old "fighters" are as if standing on the battlefield after war, watching the setting sun on the horizon, and appreciating the constant of life and the grandness of silence. Only Jorge Luis Borges' "Sepulchral Inscription" that dedicated to his great grandfather can be the footnote of that moment: "Now, he is a handful of dust and glory."

Image: © Yin Zhaoyang, Eastation Gallery