 Xeo Chu (middle) starts painting when he was four. (Photo: VNA) |
The interview examines his art journey, his first painting, and a portrait of his mother.
Xeo Chu sold his first picture to a visitor to his mum’s gallery when he was six. Since then his work has been collected all over the world from the US to Japan and beyond. Today critics regularly compare him with Jackson Pollock. His pictures come with 150,000 USD price tags. His new exhibition in London’s Mayfair follow others in Vietnam, Singapore and New York. Xeo Chu has had solo shows on three continents.
The Guardian describes this art prodigy a precocious, kindhearted child. When he was 10, Chu had his first painting exhibition in Singapore and used the 20,000 USD proceeds to support heart surgery funds, the elderly living alone, and street children in his city. Last summer, Xeo Chu sold eight of his works as non-fungible tokens (NFTs) in an online auction on his Facebook pages, donating the total proceeds of the auction – 2.9 billion VND (96,000 £) – to a hospital to buy medical equipment to combat COVID-19.