Lot 173
Anthonie Chong
b. Perak, 1971
Untitled, undated;
Self 3, 1996
unsigned; signed and dated on verso
oil on canvas
61 x 46cm each (set of 2)
PROVENANCE
Private collection, Kuala Lumpur
ESTIMATE RM 8,000 – 14,000
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Anthonie Chong’s early figurative works translate complex and powerful emotions. Painted in the artist’s iconic style of this period, the artwork illustrates a set of figures in a mundane mode, lost in each individual thought. Anthonie Chong graduated in Graphic Design from the Perak Institute of Art in 1991. He won the Philip Morris Asean Art Award, Malaysia in 1998. In 2000, he switched to caricature-like iconography fusing eastern surrealism with digital technology, namely his e-monk creations which morphed into @-monk in 2010, which was represented in three series — Community, Gaia and Mechanism. He had his first solo at the X Pub and Gallery in Penang. He had worked as an art teacher (Art Design, Kuala Lumpur), graphic designer, illustrator and lecturer at Art Direction (1992-1995), before helping out a relative in his business. His art prices have been soaring in recent auctions. |