100,000,000-II

100,000,000 Deaths And Counting - II

This portrait is 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).
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