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A person next to an incomplete stump of a sculpture stood on a metal rod, is used as an allegory of an uncertain and yet-unformed future in the pursuit of art. The lean figure in a sports jacket looks forlorn, and not any better off than the deformed and spastic sculpture nearby, shown without full lower limbs and head. The sculpture’s rough surfaces are to become a trademark of his painted portraits. Such patchy paintwork with deeply psychological scars and aggression proved much more sought-after than the artist’s more polished and refined e-monk series from the year 2000. Anthonie Chong graduated with a Diploma, majoring in Graphic Design, at the Perak Institute of Art in Ipoh in 1990. He had worked for short spells as an art teacher, graphic designer and illustrator, but thrives mainly as a practicing artist who likes to work in series. He held his first of six solos at the X Pub and Gallery in Penang in 1994, and was even given a solo at the Singapore National Museum in 2002, called Naked Perfection. He won the Malaysian level award in the Philip Morris Asean Art Awards in 1998. 122 x 92cm