The beginning of 2013 will see Stop-Motion Animation Residency Project by SUN Xun in ShanghART Beijing Space. For nearly 3 months between the end of January and late April, the artist will be accomplishing his long-planned stop-motion animation work. By then ShanghART Beijing will be altered into an “animation studio” and be fully open to visitors. It marks SUN Xun’ s rarely seen long-time residency project during the past five years in China, whereas the unknowingness of the exhibition site and outcomes is predestined by the time span, spatial dimension and the act of residency per se. Deprived of title, duration and opening time, this project will maintain a state of reading and interpretation constantly. Both what will happen and what will be presented in the end are bound to be the “unexpected” expected by the artist.
Sun Xun was born in 1980 in Fuxin in Liaoning province, China. He currently lives and works in Beijing. He graduated in 2005 from the Print-making Department of the China Academy of Fine Arts. In 2006 he established π Animation Studio.
Recent solo exhibitions include:
Sun Xun: A Footnote to Time, Wall/ladder/machine, NewYork, U.S.A.(2012); Beyond-ism – Sun Xun Solo Exhibition, ShanghART Beijing (2011); Clown’s Revolution, Holland Animation Festival, Center Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands (2010); 21KE, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai (2010); The Soul of Time, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland (2010); Animals, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, U.S.A (2009); People’s Republic of Zoo, University of Essex Gallery, U.K.(2009); His Story, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai (2009); The New China, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, U.S.A(2008); etc. Recent group exhibitions include: The 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) and Queensland Art Gallery (QAG), Brisbane, Australia (2012); By Day By Night or Some (Special) Things a Museum Can Do, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai (2010); China Power Station – part 4, Pinacoteca Agnelli, Torino, Italy(2010); Aichi Tiennale 2010, Aichi, Japan (2010); 2009 Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria(2009); China Power Station: Part II, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway(2001) etc.
