modern times

modern times happend in the Kunsthalle Mannheim. In its main hall visitor's attention is drwan to a large clock attached to a long chain from the ceilin, rotating in space. It's a german standard design clock as to be found in every railway station throughout the country. The time shown is pretty accurate, even though the hour arm seems a bit advance. Here the railway station clock is part of the art exhibition ecosystem and an artfull objective in its own right. 

modern times contrasts the round object clock with the uprising lines behind and the flat lines below, looking like a chart line, insinuating unhalted progress, growth and success - over time running in, enhanced by the two lower lines which seem to add a notion of speed in a perfectly clean environment, no doubts allowed.

Alltogether a very modernist, slightly isolatory and cynical statement.