Michael Ladenthin, born in 1963, is a German artist who grew up and lives and works in the Ruhr region.
His works are characterised by an expressionist style that is partly based on realistic elements and partly on abstract processes. Ladenthin experiments with the primary colours yellow, cyan and magenta in combination with white and black, creating random structures that can depict stories, scenes, dreams or even psychotic states. Some parts of his pictures remain unprocessed in order to give the viewer space to discover their own pictorial components in the abstract structures and to add individual scenes.
The painting "The decisive choice between the end and the beginning - concerns us only peripherally at most" has an original size of 60 x 60 cm and is a mixed technique (oil on acrylic) with 24-carat gold foil. It thematises the choice between Trump and Biden or Harris and shows two people who are symbolically faced with the decision of whether to choose a new beginning or the end. Despite the seemingly decisive choice, the theme only peripherally addresses the substance of the picture. Like Ladenthin's other works, the work contains watercolour features and large, integrated areas of colour.
The images belong primarily to the cycle CMY, which, based on the technique of modern printing technology, consists essentially of the colors cyan, magenta and yellow. The colors are used in the priming for image composition and later elaborated in the details.
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