Digital Arts titled "Hunderttausend Tote…" by Wilf Tilley, Original Artwork, Oil

Hunderttausend Tote: das ist eine Statistik Digital Arts by Wilf Tilley

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The full title, after an essay by the satirist and pacifist, Kurt Tucholsky (1890-1935) reads: "Der Tod eines Menschen: das ist eine Katastrophe. Hunderttausend Tote: das ist eine Statistik!“ The remark, of the let-them-eat-cake variety is often attributed to Stalin (1878-1953). While the Harajuku Series began as a collection of political caricatures including this, it soon developed into a more general series of portraits and ideas. However, I was reminded of this work, number 9 in the series, while reading of the activities of the Russian N.K.V.D. in Poland in 1941 in connection with the science fiction writing of Stanislaw Lem (1921-2006) – there is a further reference to him on this website in connection with a portrait of Andrei Tarkovsky who directed the movie, Solaris (1972) based on a Lem novel (1961) of the same name. Aside from the work of Lem my interest in this period of Polish history is accentuated by having known the Polish-British painter, Josef-Herman (1911-2000) who contributed a work to an exhibition I co-organized in 1981 on behalf of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

Wilf Tilley

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Wilf Tilley (Prof. Michael W. Miller) was born in the North of England and began his career as an actor, age 16, with the National Youth Theatre at The Old Vic in a production of[...]

Wilf Tilley (Prof. Michael W. Miller) was born in the North of England and began his career as an actor, age 16, with the National Youth Theatre at The Old Vic in a production of Antony and Cleopatra in which Helen Mirren played Cleopatra and he carried a spear. “Wilf Tilley” (a combination of parental names) was part-adopted for a first solo exhibition at the AIR Gallery, London, when he was 27. Following an MA degree at the Royal College of Art, London, an interest in the neuro-anatomical drawings of Leonardo da Vinci led, via the Open University, to research on neuronal modelling in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics in the University of Oxford. He was a Fellow of St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and after a two-year Fellowship in the International Center for Medical Research, Kobe, was a founder member, then senior adviser at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute, where he designed a brain science exploratorium (BrainBox). Wilf has held eight solo exhibitions, participated in group exhibitions internationally, and held a first retrospective in Japan (The Neuro-mytheologian And Other Works), in 2003. A novel (The Ladyboy Murders) was shortlisted for the Impress Prize for New Writers in 2015. In November/December 2017, he held a second retrospective at the Frederick Harris Gallery, Tokyo. And a recent portrait (Manami-san) is part of the New Light Art Prize Exhibition in the UK, touring five galleries nationally (2023-2024).