100,000,000
100,000,000 DEATHS AND COUNTING
100,000,000 Deaths And Counting
This portrait is a combination, a blend, of 25 faces of the most deadly dictators. Together they are responsible for more than 100.000.000 deaths: Mao Zedong, Josef Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Leopold II, Hideki Tojo, Hirohito, Vladimir Lenin, Pol Pot, Yahya Khan, Chiang Kai-shek, Nicholas II, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Ismail Enver Pasha, Saddam Hussein, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, Ho Chi-minh, Kim Il-sung, Mengistu Haile Mariam, Kim Jong-il, Yakubu Gowon, Muammar Gaddafi, Idi Amin Dada, Nicolae Ceausescu, Slobodan Milosevic and runner-up Bashar al-Assad. The portrait is inspired by Luc Tuymans' Der Diagnostische Blick IV (1992).
Should Winston Churchill be included? In 1943 during the Bengal famine, caused by the British, an estimated 800,000 to 3,8 million Bengalis perished.
Gobelin tapestry, 59 x 86" (150 x 220 cm), 2014
100,000,000 Deaths And Counting II
This tapestry has the exact size of Tuymans' painting, that is in long-term loan in De Pont Museum.
Gobelin tapestry, 15 x 22" (38 x 57 cm), edition of 4, 2014
backside
DEADLIEST ENDANGERED SPECIES
In the insect box a collection of the 24 most deadly dictators. Together they are responsible for more than 100.000.000 deaths: Mao Zedong, Josef Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Leopold II, Hideki Tojo, Hirohito, Vladimir Lenin, Pol Pot, Yahya Khan, Chiang Kai-shek, Nicholas II, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Ismail Enver Pasha, Saddam Hussein, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, Ho Chi minh, Kim Il Sung, Mengistu Haile Mariam, Kim Jong-il, Yakubu Gowon, Muammar, Gaddafi, Idi Amin Dada, Nicolae Ceausescu, Slobodan Milosevic. Portraits inspired by Luc Tuymans' De Diagnostische Blik.
Insect box, portraits plotted on skin, insect pins, labels, 20 x 16 x 2" (50 x 40 x 5,5 cm), 2014
PRESS
Newspaper Het Parool, December 24, 2014
NewspaperGooi- en Eemlander, Haarlems Dagblad, IJmuider Courant, Noordhollands Dagblad and Leidsch Dagblad, December 18, 2014
On view in De Balie during the Night of the Dictatorship, September 9, 2016
