Wie der gute Pilger von Schwarz zu Weiss kommt (1977) Drawing by Wilf Tilley

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  • Original Artwork (One Of A Kind) Drawing, Ink / Oil on Paper
  • Dimensions Height 11.8in, Width 7.9in
  • Artwork's condition The artwork is in very good condition
  • Framing This artwork is not framed
  • Categories Calligraphy Religion
Wie der gute Pilger von Schwarz zu Weiss kommt (How the good pilgrim got back Black to White). Rapidograph ink pen with color on toned, oiled graph paper: 30 x 20 cm. Executed in 1977 in Tripoly, Libya. The work bears a catalog number recto: AOY 115 (LR) and a signature (LL) with two artist seals added later in Tokyo (dates unknown). There is a fragment [...]
Wie der gute Pilger von Schwarz zu Weiss kommt (How the good pilgrim got back Black to White). Rapidograph ink pen with color on toned, oiled graph paper: 30 x 20 cm. Executed in 1977 in Tripoly, Libya. The work bears a catalog number recto: AOY 115 (LR) and a signature (LL) with two artist seals added later in Tokyo (dates unknown). There is a fragment from a contemporary drawing in the Hagaki series, (東京からのハガキ27枚: 27 Postcards from Tokyo) dated erroneously to 1978. This is the most complex work by Tilley in this early style and unique for the period. The work, mounted in a calligraphy slipcase for wall display, makes imaginative use of stencil forms of Roman and Arabic letters and numbers. There is a tiny drawing of a Rhim gazelle (native to North Africa) above the crenellations of the town of Weiss. A comparable, topographic work depicting an imagined spiritual journey is also in "A story in silico" series: Number 14: 五池四寺図, Five Ponds and Four Temples.

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

Wilf Tilley (Prof. Michael Miller) was born in the North of England and began his career as an actor, age 16, with the National Youth Theater 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. He studied English and European Literature with Italian before a postgraduate degree at the Royal College of Art, and co-organized fundraising exhibitions for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the anti-apartheid movement: the latter at the Royal Academy of Arts, 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. While at the institute he designed and supervised installation of 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 second retrospective was held at the Frederick Harris Gallery, Tokyo in 2017. And a recent portrait, "Manami-san (2023)", was chosen for the New Light Art Prize Exhibition in the UK, and toured five galleries nationally (2023-2024). As the co-author of several neurological case studies, Wilf addressed a conference in Japan in 2017 on mental time as a neuroscientific phenomenon, using the techniques of classical rhetoric – as described in the Ad Herrenium – to elucidate episodic memory. He is now working on a panel series, A story in silico, connected with personal memory, nostalgia and fabulation, and recently published two short stories about the art world in the Ekphrastic Review (2022 and 2023).

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