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Anthonie Chong is a major figurative artist well known for his expressionistic works filled with emotional content. Obsession was created in 1996, placing emphasis on the human state of mind through dark colours and expressive lines. The mysterious and elusive nature of the subject is carefully rendered by the artist with strong brushstrokes of paint, revealing times of distress in the journey of life. No matter what, things will always be better tomorrow. Anthonie Chong graduated in Graphic Design from the Perak Institute of Art in 1990. 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, and which was represented in three series – Community, Gaia and Mechanism. He had his first solo at the X Pub and Gallery in Penang in 1974.