‘Storm’ proves to be an aberrant in Dr Askandar Unglehrt’s oeuvre for the period when he was more into cerebral methodical works with a surrealist, ironic bent. The use of black broad-based strokes seem a playful exercise of creating perspectival ambiguity in a controlled ambient. Dr Askandar Unglehrt was trained as a linguist with a PhD at the Sorbonne University in Paris, but ventured into Art even when he was in his home country, Germany. A self-taught artist, he had had solos in Ravensburg, Germany (Gallery Wonchenblatt) in 1984 and Switzerland in 1985, before mounting his first Malaysian-Kuala Lumpur solo at the Rupa Gallery in 1988, with another at the Valentine Willie Fine Art in 1997, and two exhibitions at The Art Gallery Penang in 1998 and 2001. Dr Askandar is also a collector, and was the chief judge in the 1998 Philip Morris Asean Art Awards – Malaysia.