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Anthonie Chong (b. 1971) Morning, 1998

Sold for MYR 13,000 at Henry Butcher Art Auctioneers on May 19, 2024.

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A new day beckons to a pubescent girl, half-naked with a big bed all to herself. With hands outstretched as if yawning, and a song in her heart, she rejoices at her physical development. You can imagine, say, Will.i.am crooning, It's A New Day, in the background. She is on the cusp of exciting times, and the world is her oyster. But in classic Anthonie Chong fashion of building up tensions in innocuous situations, is everything really that hunky-dory? Or is it just some voyeur binge for the viewers? Anthonie Chong first elicited attention in his second solo at Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, in July 1997 (his first was at a pub in Penang). He became a major figurative artist of 'strangers' in awkward situations, just after graduating with a Diploma in Graphic Design from the Perak Institute of Art in Ipoh. In 1998, he won one of the Malaysian awards in the Philip Morris Asean Art Awards. He switched to cartoon iconography called e-monk in 2000.

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