Dieter Mammel Dieter Mammel is a swimmer - physically as a sportsman, metaphysically as an artist. In his painting, he lets himself plunge into the flow. The wet canvas and the paint are his element. He submerges in order to surface finally at the end of his "dive". The flow that the series "Under Deep Water" undergoes - the diving in, the immersion, the ever new aspects of the water - is an allegory for life. The primal element, water, is in constant movement, enabling dissolution and rebirth; it stands for life and death and is the cradle of evolution. In Dieter Mammel's painting technique, he takes up this process with radical minimalism: there is only a single color, the canvas, and the element water. (Nils Schoenholtz)