Due to climate change, political unrest, war and migration, we are facing profound changes in our time, which we often experience as overwhelming and confusing. In his latest series of paintings TRANSIT, Dieter Mammel (1965) translates these seemingly uncontrollable forces into a human scale.
Some paintings in the TRANSIT series are explicit like a group of refugees making their way through a snowy landscape. Anbaden (First Swim) is more symbolic with a man wading through the water, indicating transition or crossing over from one era to another.