Artist: Montien Boonma
Date: 1994
Size: 240 x 114 cm
Museum: ILHAM Gallery (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
Technique: Aluminium
1953 - 2000, ThailandMontien Boonma frequently expressed his faith in his works through the use of question marks. These marks illustrated his view of life as a perpetual cycle of questions and answers. Even its spiral shape held meaning for him, as he believed it represented movement from the exterior to the inner being, achieved through meditation and concentration. Montien preferred materials that were elemental or ephemeral to reflect the transient nature of his life. Black Question is an especially poignant work, as it was created in 1994, the year he lost his wife to cancer. He later succumbed to the same disease. During his wife
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