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propaganda A man gives a speech. His audience listens patiently. They are dog figures with bobble heads that are all the same. The same figure can also be seen on a kind of monitor. It could be the townsfolk in the background, an army of conformist yes-men, incapable of criticism. A small toy-like vehicle in the background is also broadcasting messages over loudspeakers. The propaganda machine is running and turning everything into a toy. A gigantic microphone hovers over the scene like a threatening bird of prey. There is no escape, even if the cheerful color scheme promises something else...
Acrylic on Canvas
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31.5 W x 39.4 H x 1.6 D in
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Ralph Hackeland was born in Cologne in 1965, later lived on Lake Constance for many years and has worked as a freelance painter, graphic artist and designer in Mannheim since studying communication design. In his figurative works, well-known, universal elements and motifs are brought together, creating a dream-like world in the new constellation. The actors seem strangely removed and seem stuck in inevitable developments. The images are snapshots of these developments and become a still image of an inner film, the further course of which is decided by the viewer.
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