Sun Xun: One of China's Most Ambitious Young Artists | Brilliant Ideas Ep. 46

Sun Xun is one of China’s most talented and ambitious young artists. He experiments with drawings, traditional ink paintings and woodcuts, and then uses new technologies to transform them into his artistic trademark – black and white animations. Born in 1980 in Fuxin, his works often explore and question what is known about Chinese history. In 2006 he founded his own animation studio called Pi and produces large amounts of work each year. In just under 10 years, Sun Xun has held over 30 solo exhibitions, most notably at the Hayward Gallery in London, and at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. He has also shown his films at more than 150 film festivals worldwide, including the 8th Seoul International Film Festival and the 25th Torino Film Festival.

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[christinal]

I worked as his interpreter a few years back when he was staying in The Netherlands as an artist in residence, really nice guy, extremely passionate about art and history. I remember how his eyes lit up when I told him you could get soy sauce in Dutch supermarkets too XD

[TheGrantia]

'Questioning existing systems, this is my art.' Brilliant!

[monet]

I think he is brilliant! I love his art. He is so ambitious, experimental, hard working, open minded and a true citizen of the world! He has a lot of my respect.

[sf]

Quite a blessing to have parents whom support ones life purpose, so often I hear of people who were not supported to take a career in the arts and many people in our society don't always recognise the significance of the arts. However art references humanity's evolution especially in the historical context. To a point... we're able to decipher the psychologies of the people past and present, certainly his work plays a significant role in Singapore's history, well in my opinion it does. It's good to question political systems, all systems to that point, interesting! Sun Xuns work is incredibly beautiful 😊

[golulu]

“The Piece of work is no a art, The film is not art, Art is about deeper spirit”

[SidLaw]

Really, really impressed with this guy. I find his art and personality very compelling.

[trevisrobotie]

Sun Xun is a collector.he collects different things...and I am happy, just happy for him

[XX-srsv]

Real artists are global citizens. True.

[yizhu]

I don't know why they stopped making teh brilliant idea series, truly amazing overviews of artists all around the world, wish there'd be more of these

[asunsol]

What an amazing man! This is what I call a true artist.

[ShinobitheCat]

"I don't know what it is (his art) but I am happy". Inspiring.

[whatadollslife]

his father is a very god man to recognize Sun Xun's talents and support the art dream

[jarmarcibrown]

Sun Xun hands down one of the best artists of his generation and future generations

[claressadubs]

I love these videos, but the subtitles bother me. They're changed pretty often from what he's actually saying and it sometimes changes the meaning. I understand that his English isn't perfect, and adding occasional small grammatical changes for clarity would be ok, but there's no reason to change "past news" to "old newspapers", "changed" to "influenced", or "art was not the real end" to "art was not the end goal", other than the transcriptionist just thinks they know a better way to say what he's saying.

[maestasify]

Enlightening, for sure. Sun Xun is a true artist.

[DeepaRai]

Very inspiring! Artist work not for present, Artist work for the future. Sun Xun 🙏😇❤️

[kyziah]

i rarely watch any video all go through, but his attitude caught my eyes and i was just keep watching... His thought inspired me a lot that he is just an artist without any label where he from. great, wonderful!

[KenalLouis]

This is very inspiring. His point of view is interested and truly express what it means to be an artist. We shouldn't limit our thoughts or medium we use to create.

[TaraArtisan]

Thank you for your father's support and your passion in arts

[julichio]

I m an artist and agree with him in all. We're a nature tool for the future, people of the world, of the past, present and future. 💓