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Serpents 2019, resin cured clay and aluminium weave #marvinchan #solo show #contemporary_art#contemporarysculpture#artasiapacific

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How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? 

I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole.

Carl Jung 

Brief

It is our moral duty to lead a meaningful life, 

because we depend on a narrative to know 

who we are and what we are about, 

because it combats the suffering. 

There is an unalienable reality of finitude and 

suffering that characterises people’s lives 

and it’s not surprising that they become 

embittered and resentful. 

Given that life is about drawing out as much positive 

outcome as we possibly can from the potential 

which surrounds us, we are laden with as much 

negative results, when we fail or choose not to do that.

 Our efforts compound a structure of being in which we exist, 

and the climate of this structure relies heavily on the 

collective outcome of every individual effort to 

extract good. When we fail to extract what is meaningful 

and good from that potential, malevolence is takes place, 

because our regrets and bitterness often times grow 

from miss opportunities or things we know we should have done.

 The one way to overcome this catastrophe is to 

take responsibility of our lives so we can solve the big 

problem in our small individual way, and when 

enough people do this, we make things better. 

For example, we can be so laden with problems 

that we despair, given our finitude. But despite our tragedy, 

we can make something out of the potential or 

possibility which presents itself. 

With this aim, we improve our odds of extracting good 

from the world, and rise from our problems and create 

more possibilities for happiness. 

It’s not another call to a utopia that’s produced by 

human imagination. Its the insistence that without the 

proper engagement in truth that your life will degenerate 

and you will end up embittered and in chaos. 

Marvin Chan

#contemporaryart #soloshow#theartling #marvinchan#soloexhibition#soloartexhibition2019#sumaorientalis #artasiapacific

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You are here 2019, Oil on canvas  #contemporaryart #soloshow#theartling #marvinchan#soloexhibition#soloartexhibition2019#sumaorientalis #artasiapacific

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Lost:misdirected 2019, oil colour on canvas #marvinchan #soloshow#fineart #contemporary_art #contemporarymalaysianart

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Murder on the dance floor, 2015

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Folly of man 2017  (With intervention) 

The intervention compounds a history to the construct of the work, as a result of complying to presiding permissions and cultural sensitivities in Public Art spaces. previously shown at the National Arts Gallery of Malaysia.

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Yawning babies are hard to paint when they make me nap

#babyportraits

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Study. Islands #7 

2010

Oil Colour and relief print

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study. Island #4 

2011

Oil colour and relief prints

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Public Sculpture.

Sonic-boom 2017

Mild steel construct with repurposed titanium-blade inserts

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Public Sculpture.

Sonic-boom 2017

Mild steel construct with repurposed titanium-blade inserts

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Public Sculpture.

Sonic-boom 2017

Mild steel construct with repurposed titanium-blade inserts

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Public Sculpture.

Stingray 2017

repurposed aircraft FM antennas

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Disenchantment of hope - The day, the carousel stopped 2018

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Disenchantment of hope - Fallen star 2018

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