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.
Troubled Times is a symbolic image of a man sweeping with a broom. The floor and the feet of the man are hidden from view by a horizontal line, making the sweeping itself less concrete and the meaning of change is reinforced.