Most kids can’t wait to grow up because of something like their parents telling them they can’t buy a toy because it’s too expensive.
Or perhaps they want to be able to go out and do something grown-up but they’re still going to school.
Normally, kids have no choice but to simply wait until they’re old enough to actually try something. But this only applies to prodigies because they can achieve whatever they want. And 11-year-old Xeo Chu, from Vietnam, is exactly that.
Watch to learn more about this little prodigy below!
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He got into painting four years ago and now is set to open his first New York solo show. How’s that for overachieving?
The show, entitled “Big World, Little Eyes,” will be held at George Bergès Gallery in SoHo. Landscapes and colorful abstractions that are as much as 15 feet wide will be featured and go for as high as $150,000. It was impressive enough that another artist took note of Chu.
An artist named Bergès took notice of Chu through his clients in Singapore and Vietnam, places where Chu previously had shows.
This latest endeavor is not so much a commercial one as a metaphysical one for Bergès.
“To me, it was very interesting to work with an artist who’s before puberty because it challenged my notions about art and how life experience has to go into it,” he said in a phone interview.point 344 |
“I’m very spiritual, so the idea of reincarnation or what Jung called the collective unconscious really resonates, and you can see it more purely in a child.point 135 | If there is depth and complexity in a piece of work from someone who has very limited life experience, it gives you a glimpse of the universal unconscious that we all have and can tap into.point 289 |
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He acknowledges that there is extra responsibility in working with a kid, even a prodigy. “Although we can be excited about everything that’s going on, and we can encourage him, we should also shelter him from the press,” he said. “At the end of the day he’s a child, and I don’t lose sight of that. It’s tough. It’s a tightrope.”
Bergès deliberately scheduled the show to take place over the holidays. It runs until January 2.
“It’s a special time of the year, and I wanted kids to see that they’re important and can play a role in the discourse of art,” he says. “My eight-year-old daughter’s school is going.”
But for all the metaphysical undertones, the show is still very commercial with two paintings already having been sold for $80,000 each.
The first thing most people would ask is whether or not the child really did those paintings. But there is video evidence of Chu in front of the canvas so that question is amply answered.
And while Chu is making enough money to buy a Ferrari after selling a few paintings, he actually donates most of the money to Heartbeat Vietnam to help other children his age.
One thing is for sure, Chu’s future is definitely made.
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