Marvin Chan

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b. Kuala Lumpur, 1972
Marvin Chan
The Hope of Always and the Inevitable
2007
signed and dated ‘Marvin 07’ (bottom right)
oil on canvas
170 x 137cm
Provenance
Private collection, Kuala Lumpur; acquired through Wei-Ling Gallery, Kuala Lumpur.
Estimate
RM 7,000 – 10,000
Price Realised
RM 9,130

EXHIBITED
Kuala Lumpur, Wei-Ling Gallery, 3 New Voices, January 2008.

Award-winning advertising practitioner turned fulltime artist, Marvin Chan has stamped his mark on the local art scene since 2007. Marvin’s works are a collaboration of things that happen in and around him.

The Hope of Always and the Inevitable is from the body of work which offers an intimate view at the artist dealing with the notion of wanting children, and how this addition (or omission) of an entity can alter the course of an ideal. The work projects an elementary question on the ‘temporary state’ that one is in, along with the anxieties and expectations associated with a child.

The speculative nature of hope and the inevitable, as well as the debate on the ‘child’ - irregardless of the outcome - is permanently suspended in an ephemeral pinkish-hued, resin layered image of a pony-tailed girl, distracted, as if by an impending sense of the inevitable.