Sun Xun
17 Nov - 17 Dec 2007
SUN XUN
"Mythos"
ShanghART F-Space
Room:315-317, No.800, GuoShun Rd East. Tel:86-21 5506 5989 Fax:86-21 5506 6997
Reception: Nov. 17th, Saturday 2007, 3:00PM
Exhibition: Nov.17th-Dec. 17th, 2007
ShanghART Gallery is pleased to announce Sun Xun’s first solo show at ShanghART F-space. The exhibition features two animated films as well as hundreds of original works.
MYTHOS (2006) is a collage created with reference to personal memories as well as collective experiences. In the strange spatio-temporal image, the history has been cut into pieces. It seems that everyone is a king, everyone is a magician, and numberless chairs are there waiting while billows of flame are sweeping the brown old photos. The animation is a montage of history, and MYTHOS’ dictionary is, thus, a code full of questions.
SHOCK OF TIME (2006) can also be understood as the shock of history. Sun Xun made the symbol of time (li.e. a clock and a pendulum) flashed on the old newspapers and magazines such as People’s Liberation Army Pictorial and XINHUA Daily of the Sixties. These old news and information once was looked upon as the only criterion of truth. Now, then, their romantic and idealized meanings have seized to exist. Authenticity and truth have once again been called into question.
Sun Xun’s animations are surrealistic. Such surrealism is built over a ruin of alienation, historical and personal memory, waving the transformed former Soviet Union Flag. Imagery of mosquitoes, magicians, maps, words and chairs appear in his every animation repeatedly, telling his doubts against the lies and plots, standards and authorities, and showing his inner irresistible impulse of Utopia. 'History is a lie of Time?' 'Mythos can expel truth?' Is this question only a phrase flashing by in SHOCK OF TIME, or a footnote for the whole MYTHOS world?
Sun Xun was born in 1980, Fuxin, Liaoning Province. He graduated from the Print-making Department of China Academy of Fine Arts in 2005, and established ‘p’ animation studio in 2006. Sun Xun started to make animation and entered contemporary art exhibitions at home and abroad in 2003. In 2007 his animations entered major film festivals extensively. Important exhibitions and filmfests include 25th Torino Film Festival, Torino, Italy (2007); Up-and coming International Film Festival Hannover, Hannover, Germany (2007); AURORA Film Festival, Norwich, UK (2007); 23rd International Berlin Short Film Festival, Germany (2007); 26th Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Uppsala, Sweden (2007); MECAL International Short Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain (2007); China Power Station: Part II, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway (2007); 8th Seoul International Film Festival, Seoul, Korea (2007); 53rd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany (2007); Future Landscapes, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai (2006); The Minority is Subordinate to the Majority, BizArt, Shanghai (2003).
"Mythos"
ShanghART F-Space
Room:315-317, No.800, GuoShun Rd East. Tel:86-21 5506 5989 Fax:86-21 5506 6997
Reception: Nov. 17th, Saturday 2007, 3:00PM
Exhibition: Nov.17th-Dec. 17th, 2007
ShanghART Gallery is pleased to announce Sun Xun’s first solo show at ShanghART F-space. The exhibition features two animated films as well as hundreds of original works.
MYTHOS (2006) is a collage created with reference to personal memories as well as collective experiences. In the strange spatio-temporal image, the history has been cut into pieces. It seems that everyone is a king, everyone is a magician, and numberless chairs are there waiting while billows of flame are sweeping the brown old photos. The animation is a montage of history, and MYTHOS’ dictionary is, thus, a code full of questions.
SHOCK OF TIME (2006) can also be understood as the shock of history. Sun Xun made the symbol of time (li.e. a clock and a pendulum) flashed on the old newspapers and magazines such as People’s Liberation Army Pictorial and XINHUA Daily of the Sixties. These old news and information once was looked upon as the only criterion of truth. Now, then, their romantic and idealized meanings have seized to exist. Authenticity and truth have once again been called into question.
Sun Xun’s animations are surrealistic. Such surrealism is built over a ruin of alienation, historical and personal memory, waving the transformed former Soviet Union Flag. Imagery of mosquitoes, magicians, maps, words and chairs appear in his every animation repeatedly, telling his doubts against the lies and plots, standards and authorities, and showing his inner irresistible impulse of Utopia. 'History is a lie of Time?' 'Mythos can expel truth?' Is this question only a phrase flashing by in SHOCK OF TIME, or a footnote for the whole MYTHOS world?
Sun Xun was born in 1980, Fuxin, Liaoning Province. He graduated from the Print-making Department of China Academy of Fine Arts in 2005, and established ‘p’ animation studio in 2006. Sun Xun started to make animation and entered contemporary art exhibitions at home and abroad in 2003. In 2007 his animations entered major film festivals extensively. Important exhibitions and filmfests include 25th Torino Film Festival, Torino, Italy (2007); Up-and coming International Film Festival Hannover, Hannover, Germany (2007); AURORA Film Festival, Norwich, UK (2007); 23rd International Berlin Short Film Festival, Germany (2007); 26th Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Uppsala, Sweden (2007); MECAL International Short Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain (2007); China Power Station: Part II, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway (2007); 8th Seoul International Film Festival, Seoul, Korea (2007); 53rd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany (2007); Future Landscapes, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai (2006); The Minority is Subordinate to the Majority, BizArt, Shanghai (2003).