EM-WEN 3 (Acrylic on plywood, 46.3cm x 49.3cm x 1.2cm, Dirk Marwig 2023)
This is a painting or a wall object. Whatever you prefer.
Dirk Marwig-Self Portrait 1994
I found that my self-portrait from 1994 was sold in an art auction in Leipzig, Germany (Oct. 07, 2023)
Kunstauktionshaus Leipzig
Leipzig, DE
DIRK MARWIG (geb. 1960 in Bochum, tätig in Vancouver) Selbstbildnis, 1986/94 Öl auf mit Siebdruck bedruckten Baumwollstoff auf Sperrholz, 33,3 x 30,7(Trägerbrett 33,3 x 60,7) cm, rückseitig auf Gemäldebrett signiert.
Kunstauktionshaus Leipzig
Leipzig, DE
DIRK MARWIG (geb. 1960 in Bochum, tätig in Vancouver) Selbstbildnis, 1986/94 Öl auf mit Siebdruck bedruckten Baumwollstoff auf Sperrholz, 33,3 x 30,7(Trägerbrett 33,3 x 60,7) cm, rückseitig auf Gemäldebrett signiert.
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El Rey del Basico (Oil on parts of my old jeans, 54.5cm x 83cm, Dirk Marwig 2023)
Everyone has the same goal: to feel good. “El Rey del Basico” . Dirk Marwig, 2o23
Ant Logic No. 1 (Ink, oil, and masking tape on burlap, 65.7cm x 56.5.5cm, Dirk Marwig 2023)
We all know everything…but ‘think that we are not capable of expressing this…so we don’t. *Today I needed to say that “I was here”!… This was the result: a description of “the person, that you think is -Dirk Marwig-“.
I’m trying…like everyone: to have a purpose.
EM-WEN interactive (Oil and ink on burlap, 56.5cm x 65.7cm, Dirk Marwig 2023)
Based on the “golden section”. Fill in the uncolored lines and make a change.
EM-WEN 2 (Oil on plywood, 77cm x 97cm, Dirk Marwig 2023)
Break Bad Laws (Oil and graphite on primed canvas mounted on plywood, 41.5cm x 43cm, Dirk Marwig 2022)
Always(if you can): Break Bad Laws! …and there are many that need to be broken.
The Get (Oil on treated plywood, 61.2cm x 73.8cm, Dirk Marwig 2022)
CON (Oil, ink and graphite on plywood, 26.7cm x 22.4cm, Dirk Marwig 2022)
Tiger (Oil on canvas, 48.7cm x 18.5cm, Dirk Marwig 2022)
The Unwelcome Tourist (Oil on treated canvas with coloured pencil, 44.2 x 25.7cm, Dirk Marwig 2021)
Observation Dictates Reality (Oil on primed and layered plywood, 81cm x 71.3cm, Dirk Marwig 2022)
Observation may very well dictate Reality and, until that Reality is shared by Multiple Observers, it remains Independent of all Other Realities. This is my Reality.
Dependency (Oil and ink on plywood, 37.5cm x 46.5cm, Dirk Marwig 2022)
Get it?
Dirk Marwig: 8 new X-KWISITRASH paintings
8 new paintings (Oil on stiffened kitchen cloth, Dirk Marwig 2021)
X-KWISItrash. “Art Visual Alternatives” Idea sheet: “Alpes-Provence” France 2021
The Hello Hustle (Oil on old dishrag, 57cm x 41cm, Dirk Marwig 2021)
“EL” (Oil and acrylic on cotton, 118cm x 47cm, Dirk Marwig 2021)
Eat your heart out… Other than that: No comment. “EL, La Fuente”: I HAVE THE COPYRIG……
Aerolineas VIVA de Colombia -alt. publ. Design-(Oil and acrylic on old cotton dishrag, 58.5cm x 44cm, Dirk Marwig 2021)
There are always various alternatives to Everything, even for this Dishrag! If this flight company would use this “Poster”, they would be Soooooo “on the Smooth/Cool/Absolute Hip Groove!” …but you know how the World is: Safe, False, and Boring.
Untitled 2007- study- (Oil and ink on paper, 32cm x 27cm, Dirk Marwig 2007)
The Geometry of Light. The Dominant Power of Orange! Isn’t that interesting?! Hmmm.
Gitana de Lux (Oil on wine crate top, 27.7cm x 33.7cm, Dirk Marwig 2021)
A Muddy Celebration!
We Are Humble Dark Matter(Ink, oil and coloured pencil on plywood board, 76.5cm x 114cm, Dirk Marwig 2021)
Art and Everything
Village and Big City (Oil on cut-up, perforated and beat-up plywood, 71.7cm x 54.3cm, Dirk Marwig 2021)
Rotate this painting anyway you desire: it’s either the Village or the Big City. The thing they have in common is that both are Man-Made, as is the plywood, the holes, the lines, the paint, the concept, the painting and its creator.
Spa 2007 (Oil and archival ink on Plywood, dim. unknown, Dirk Marwig 2007)
Recently found Photo.
FOR US NOT THEM (Oil and gesso on thick industrial burlap on plywood, 113.5 cm x 76.5cm, Dirk Marwig 2020)
“FOR US NOT THEM” A Quote from ‘Feeble-minded Criminal and Wannabe Dictator’ Donald Trump, 2020
H-21(Oil on Plywood, 31.2cm x 23cm, Dirk Marwig 2020)
The Golden Ratio. Perfect ‘Distances’
The Brain is Stuck (Oil on ‘battered’ industrial plywood found on street, 76.5cm x 153cm x 6cm, Dirk Marwig 2020)
Both sides of the brain (Left and Right) start a ‘Thought Process’ at different Times while moving in One and the Same direction, each one spinning at its own velocity around its own Axis, continuously Overlapping and Bumping into one another (like Bumper Cars tied together) Disturbing and Interrupting the overall Idea Concept until the whole ‘Brain Thought-Process’ comes to a Fast and Abrupt Stop. Stuck.
This painting/object is based on the ‘Golden Dimension’.
H-19 (Acrylic on plywood, 32.3cm x 24cm, Dirk Marwig 2020)
A study for a new series of Paintings and Objects.
Hermann und Berta (Oil on shaped, cut-up and prepared plywood, 91.5cm x 86cm x 2cm, Dirk Marwig 2020)
Grrrrrrr (Oil on canvas mounted on board, 41cm x 79cm, Dirk Marwig 2020)
Passive Aggressive.
Year of the Bulldozer (Enamel and oil on plywood, 179cm x 122cm, Dirk Marwig 2020)
What Do I See? (Oil on board, 55cm x 55cm, Dirk Marwig 2020)
2020 on the 20th! What Do I see? Rotate this painting!
Next Level (Oil on plywood board, 31cm x 31cm, Dirk Marwig 2019)
I wanted to create a painting with a small format which (seeing it from a distance) immediately ‘pulls you in’ and that the closer you get to it becomes even more interesting. Next Level.
The ART Dealer (Oil on cotton mounted on plywood panel, 53cm x 42.5cm, Dirk Marwig 2019)
Again, I can only laugh!
Relaxation in Freefall (Oil on plywood, 55.4cm x 49cm, Dirk Marwig 2019)
Park Royal (Oil on burlap mounted on plywood, 35.8cm x 39.4cm, Dirk Marwig 2018)
Sorry, But I Have To Go (Oil on burlap, 66.5cm x 49cm, Dirk Marwig 2018)
Freudian Cinema (Oil on wood panel, 89.6cm x 89.6cm, Dirk Marwig 2021)
The more you Look the more you See. The more you see the more you find. Submerge yourself in the Images you see. Freudian Cinema. It’s all about You.
House of Love (Oil on canvas, 270cm x 180cm, Dirk Marwig 1994)
This large painting was sold to one the banks that collect Dirk Marwig’s work.
This is the only existing image of it, taken from newspaper clipping of the “Frankfurter Rundschau”(Frankfurt, Germany) spring of 1995.
Invincible (Oil on wood panel, 90.5cm x 90.5cm, Dirk Marwig 2018)
Voyage into Time and Space (Mixed media on plywood mounted on plywood, 77cm x 95.7cm, Dirk Marwig 2018)
Respect for the Human Elevated State of Consciousness.
Perpetual Hallucination (Oil on canvas mounted on plywood board, 37cm x 59.6cm, Dirk Marwig 2017)
Americano (Oil on wood panel, 66cm x 66cm, Dirk Marwig 2017)
The Architecture of a Perfect Day (Oil on canvas, 170cm x 156cm, Dirk Marwig 2017)
Untitled. August 2017 (Oil on canvas, 160cm x 132.3cm, Dirk Marwig 2017)
Summer madness.
New Territory (Oil on canvas, 115cm x 115cm, Dirk Marwig 2017)
The Plague of Ignorance (Oil on canvas mounted on plywood, 38.5cm x 60.8cm, Dirk Marwig 2017)
One can rotate this painting in all 4 directions, the ‘Plague of Ignorance’ stays seductively and morbidly dominant.
Salon Privilege (Oil on wood panel, 85.4cm x 122cm, Dirk Marwig 2017)
Shoulda Stayed In Bed (Oil on canvas, 40.5cm x 50.8cm, Dirk Marwig 2017)
In Retrospect.
The Irrelevance of Everything (Oil on cotton cloth mounted on plywood, 36.3cm x 51.6cm, Dirk Marwig 2017)
Time, Space, basically Everything is Irrelevant. Important is that you feel alive, now.
Untitled 2017 (Oil on wood panel, 94.5cm x 76.3cm, Dirk Marwig 2017)
Paintings have a language of their own. In this case words simply fail again.
The Beauty of the Undefined and Indefinite (Oil on canvas, 204.5cm x 166.3cm, Dirk Marwig 2016)
This large canvas invites the spectator to enter and to be part of the composition. This is only a photo but when you stand in front of this large painting, you immediately form part of it and enter the world of the undefined and indefinite. We know nothing and we are nothing. Screw the big egos.
Two Girls on a Red Horse (Oil on plywood board, 105.8cm x 75.3cm, Dirk Marwig 2016)
That Little Evil Bastard Again! (Oil on plywood board, 30.8cm x 43.2cm, Dirk Marwig 2016)
Happy House(Oil on old dishrag, 33.5cm x 52cm, Dirk Marwig 2008-2016)
This is a rework of a painting from 2008 which was never really finished. I intensified the colours, mounted it on a 6mm board and flipped it.
To My Mind… (Oil and enamel on wood panel, 91.3cm x 91.3cm, Dirk Marwig 2016)
A painting of my signature ‘irregular Heptagon’ placed on an easel in the garden.
Face Off (Oil on canvas, 167.5cm x 106.5cm, Dirk Marwig 2016)
Flat as a floor plan: the architecture of strategy mixed with uncertainty in a “one on one” Face Off.
Thriving in Exile (Oil on plywood, 52cm x 84cm, Dirk Marwig 2016)
…Based on the “Golden Section”, of course.
Pizzazz (Oil on canvas, 95.5cm x 154.2cm, Dirk Marwig 2016)
It’s the 13th of July and I’m still so very slow working due to my knee injury but today I finally finished this new painting. Highly my kind of “deconstructivism” showing my idea of cool “Pizzazz”ness. This painting is based on the Golden Section / “Golden Rectangle. A very reduced and interactive composition.
Composition for the Hard of Hearing (Oil on wood panel, 89cm x 75cm, Dirk Marwig 2016)
ORIWAKO (Oil on wood panel, 91.5cm x 61cm, Dirk Marwig 2016)
This painting was in my studio for more than a year and yesterday I finished it adding the last few essentials it needed. While I was working on it the name “Oriwako” kept going through my mind. I later looked it up on the ‘net’ and found out that the word does not exist. How can this be? This word has some kind of power or meaning in some language, otherwise why would I have constantly repeated it so my times in my head while looking and working on it? Very strange. This makes me wonder.
Folded (Oil on plywood, 58cm x 70cm, Dirk Marwig 2016)
-This Painting/Object is about finding beauty and coolness in something totally mundane and insignificant: the random little piece of math paper, “folded” and “discarded” (enlarged 700% and painted on a flat, thin and shaped plywood board).
Reach You With My Mind (Oil on plywood-irregular pentagon shape, 45.5cm x 71.8cm, Dirk Marwig 2016)
This painting looks like as if it has been photographed close-up style with a ‘wide angle macro’ lens. But it’s not. This is what the painting actually looks like when photographed from a straight-on position. The irregular pentagon shape is composed out of 2 golden rectangles of different dimensions separated by a square and connected by the longer diagonal(lower right to upper left). This is a little mind game I like to play and to surprise myself with.
Time and Beauty (Ink and oil on canvas, 91cm x 60.8cm, Dirk Marwig 2016-2021)
Beauty = the Best Humanity has to offer(in all categories). Thank you.
Mega Over-Pop (Oil on treated cotton mounted on wood panel, 100.8cm x 62cm, Dirk Marwig 2016)
Overpopulation. Way too much.
“I Will Always See You” (Chinese ink and gesso on paper, mounted on plywood, 76.8cm x 54.5cm, Dirk Marwig 2016)
This photo shows the entire painting: The “outside” edges are perfectly ‘squared’ but the ‘paper part’ is “off” on purpose.
Phenomenon (Oil on stretched thick hardened cotton cloth, 91.5cm x 91.5cm, Dirk Marwig 2016)
This one is difficult to explain. It just happened. It freaks me out. Just look at it for a while and you’ll know why.
-We always see ‘things’ but are not aware of what exactly we are witnessing until we see “it” again in retrospect (i.e.: later in a photo, for example). This happened here.
See Above or Suffer (Oil on Japan-paper cut up into strips then mounted on plywood panel-collage-, 48cm x 77.3cm, Dirk Marwig 2016)
Life (High pigment lacquer on cardboard mounted on plywood, 28cm x 35cm, Dirk Marwig 2015)
Human Vault (Oil and Bic-pen on canvas, 51cm x 82.5cm, Dirk Marwig 2015)
The “Human Vault”… Dark, Deceptive and Sexy -I love to work with Bic-pens. It’s fun and the smeary blue ink has a special quality that I like perfect for this drawing/painting. Again the DNA of the painting is based on the “Golden Section”.
Suicide Bomb (Oil on plywood, 51.5cm x 51.5cm, Dirk Marwig 2015)
No comment.
La Castellana (High pigment lacquer on cardboard mounted on plywood, 70.2cm x 35,2cm, Dirk Marwig 2015)
Another memory of Madrid(Spain) where I lived for 16 years. “El Paseo de la Castellana” is the central big multi-lane avenue in Madrid running north-south/south-north(like Park Avenue in New York City) ending(or beginning) at the 2 major train stations Atocha and Chamartin. “La Castellana” depicts a busy intersection (probably close to “Plaza de Colon”)seen from above in the way I see things.
El Kid (Oil on wood panel, 76.2cm x 57.8cm, Dirk Marwig 2015)
Apollo (Oil on Japan-paper mounted on wood panel, 72.2cm x 63.6cm, Dirk Marwig 2015)
Mankind has NEVER left planet Earth. It’s a nice dream but physically not possible. “Man on the moon” is a big government HOAX!
Painting is it’s own language combining all knowledge (consciously and subconsciously) which the artist has to offer to the world. I really did my best not to control anything in the process, not to think, somehow just being a “vessel” and getting lost in the process. This painting is the result combining my ideas, concepts, shapes, sounds and images reducing them to the bare minimum, tactile and ethereal at the same time. Look and understand.
Rewind, Right There! (Oil and ink on Japan-paper mounted on plywood, 47.6cm x 42.8cm, Dirk Marwig 2015)
Subtle yet Powerful, Calculated yet Spontaneous. Elegant and Beautiful! *It’s a very sad thing that I have to “explain” my work(What happened to Culture and Education?)* -I had this piece literally flying around in my studio for 3 years. Every time I looked at it though, something ‘else’ became visible and finally today(July 3rd 2015) I decided to clean it up, mount it on a plywood board and photograph it. What a process. I nearly tossed it!
The Melancholy of our Timelines (Oil on cotton cloth mounted on plywood, 36cm x 58cm, Dirk Marwig 2015)
I “undid” the psychological effects of the colour “green”. Can green (which is normally an emotionally positive colour) be the colour of ‘melancholy’? YES. Just look at this painting for a while and you will notice a melancholy sadness.
Can’t Hear (Acrylic on canvas, 148cm x 241.5cm, Dirk Marwig 2015)
I don’t really like to paint very large paintings(for many reasons- ‘space’ being one of them) but for my birthday I ‘treated myself to this one! It was necessary.
Logo for the Milan City Circuit -Rough and Ready version- (Oil on plywood board, 44cm x 63cm x 3.5cm, Dirk Marwig 2015)
This logo/painting is based on my 2008 painting “Clean State”.
Amazo-Sphere (Oil on primed cotton bath towel mounted on plywood, 53.5cm x 86cm, Dirk Marwig 2015)
Everything in this painting is again based on the divine proportions of the “golden rectangle”. The colours, the ‘feel’ and mood are of the rainforest. And for the first time: Op-Art that is really RELAXING!
Republic Earth (My old rags mounted on plywood, 89cm x 51cm, Dirk Marwig 2015)
I used my old painting rags just the way they were with absolutely no manipulation. I only cut them into perfect strips, assorted them, reversed my particular ‘colour theory’ and mounted them on a plywood board.
PRESENCE (Oil on hardened cotton bath towel, 81cm x 81cm, Dirk Marwig 2015)
Heightened Awareness (Oil on Japan-paper, 32cm x 48cm, Dirk Marwig 2015)
This little painting was in my studio for 2 years. Something was missing and last night in a ‘state of Heightened Awareness’ and without thinking I added 4 highlights and suddenly the painting came alive. Wow. -If look at it from a distance an ‘alternate reality’ appears. No words can capture this. Magical.
GAME (Oil on wood panel, 76cm x 122cm, Dirk Marwig 2015)
The format of this painting is a “Golden Rectangle”. The theme is nasty but fun!
Oh Oh, My Head! (Oil on wood panel, 61cm x 51cm, Dirk Marwig 2011)
Failed Escape (Oil on canvas, 153.5cm x 122.5cm, Dirk Marwig 2015)
U.N. (Enamel and high pigment lacquer on plywood, 51cm x 51cm, Dirk Marwig 2014)
This painting corresponds to the “Airport” painting : the outline of my irregular heptagon constructed only with the help of the “Golden Rectangle”. The spectator is again involved to connect the invisible lines inside of the ‘outline’. Endless possibilities.
Airport (High pigment lacquer on plywood inlay, 62cm x 62cm, Dirk Marwig 2014)
This painting shows how to ‘construct’ an irregular heptagon on the basis of the ‘Golden Rectangle’. Even if this is an irregular 7 sided polygon(irregular heptagon) there is an intrinsic feeling of harmony and balance that can only be explained by the continuous use of the ‘Golden Section’. Every corner and every intersection of each line can be endlessly connected to another corner or line, the grid getting smaller or larger maintaining total congruency. -If you look at it long enough the ‘lines’ start jumping out at you in 3D and the spaces shift and shake uncontrollably!
Mankind (High pigment lacquer on plywood mounted on wood panel, 91.5cm x 91.5cm, Dirk Marwig 2014)
*Mankind” is the result of the cut up “Flop Object”(an object I worked on for a long time, but then suddenly decided to trash). I cut all the salvaged wood into perfect ‘Golden Rhombi’, then assorted all the pieces on a square wood panel. This painting/object can be seen from all sides. With each Rotation, it gives you a different Sensation…(that Rhymes!) It can even be put up diagonally. This piece highlights the greedy, “Ant-like” Occupation and Restructuring of Mother Earth by Yours Truly: “Mankind”.
Resonance (Oil on Japan-Paper mounted off centre on white plywood square, 48.3cm x 48.3cm, Dirk Marwig 2011)
This is a gift to Nadim Amar. This little painting was in my “unfinished work” box for 3 years until I mounted it on a square (painted white) piece of plywood (but not in the centre) just like you see it in the photo. Now, finally it is finished!
Because the painting itself is not centred the eyes move back and forth(right to left ) and the colours vibrate in all directions giving that feeling of “Resonance”.
A Landscape for the Pyromaniac (Oil on plywood, 23cm x 59.3cm, Dirk Marwig 2014)
My mother always told me when I was young : “Why don’t you just paint landscapes? People would buy them and you could make lots of money.” -Well here’s a landscape for you! 
This painting shows the view of the burning landscape via satellite and a the panoramic view from the ground all in one.
Alles ist Gut -old work, I had just turned 21 when I painted this- (Oil on canvas, 30cm x 40cm, Dirk Marwig 1981)
“I found this at my mothers house when I travelled to Germany in 2013. I had just turned 21 when I painted it. This little painting shows my extreme frustration in dealing with this world, the same frustration I still have in dealing with everything today! “Alles ist Gut” means “Everything is good or well”… Sarcastic, of course. It also shows my love for geometry and abstraction which still forms the basis of my work. This is probably one of the very few paintings that has my name on the front- usually I sign and date on the back of the piece in order not to ruin the composition.”
When the Politician Speaks (Oil on burlap on plywood, 21.3cm x 68.8cm, Dirk Marwig 2014)
*As you can see the Politician never says anything. It’s all just deceptive rhetoric! A self serving ‘This Way’ / ‘That Way’. Always bamboozling the public/population, using generic “LINES” and meaningless phrases that carry no intention, truth or wisdom.
The Constructivist-study- (Oil on hardened cardboard on plywood, 30.5cm x 43cm, Dirk Marwig 2014)
“This small painting is a study for a much larger painting. I hardly ever do a study but with this particular composition i needed to figure out the exact position of each element. My idea was to interlock 2 ‘Question Marks’, my eternal theme. If you turn the painting on it’s side you can recognize the 2 ‘Question Marks’.”
‘Lines’ Painting No.3 (Oil on burlap, 140cm x 100cm, Dirk Marwig 1996) -older work-
“Little by little I’m finding photos of my earlier work and uploading these onto my website. This one is the third “Lines” painting i did in 1996. I believe that it is in the Nikolaus Fischer private collection in Germany.”
Mind Cleaner (Oil on canvas, 122cm x 244cm, Dirk Marwig 2008)
“I just found the file of “Mind Cleaner” from 2008-this painting wasn’t on the site, I don’t know why. It’s a big painting that i made to clean my mind of all noise- to look at it really relaxes you because of it’s size, the seemingly simple lines, the monochrome titanium white with the mix of cobalt and ultra-marine blues and the impeccable execution with thousands of little brush strokes. I painted the whole “thing” with a small #6 brush! I really love this one because it’s so ‘Clean'(It was a pain in the ass though to photograph)”
Cartography, Organic, Random Close-up lower bottom left (Dirk Marwig 2013)
“This is a close up of the lower left bottom of the painting.”
Cartography, Organic, Random Close-up mid section (Dirk Marwig 2013)
“This is a close-up of the mid-section of the painting “Cartography,Organic,Random”- total chaos.”
Cartography, Organic, Random (Oil on plywood, 94.5cm x 75.7cm, Dirk Marwig 2013)
“I have always loved maps. Without thinking i started scratching thousands of lines all over the plywood board- added some colour and at the end of the day some kind of map appeared. Then the real work began: organizing the chaos until it made sense to me.”
Magic Square (Oil on wood panel, 60cm x 60cm, Dirk Marwig 2013)
“I used 8 colours in this painting -you can see them diagonally from the top left going down to the bottom right- then I made a grid of 64 squares and only using these 8 colours,mixing them with each other adding only white or grey filling in all 64 boxes starting from the left and moving to the right painting in columns”.
Summer Camp (Oil on Wood Panel, 56.7cm x 91.8cm, Dirk Marwig 2013)
-As you can probably tell: I used the same 8 colours here as in the painting “Magic Square”!
High on the Mountain Pass (Oil on paper cut up into strips then glued onto plywood -collage- , 25cm x 40.6cm, Dirk Marwig 2013)
Predator (Oil and ink on wood panel, 51cm x 61cm, Dirk Marwig 2013)
I had this painting sitting in my studio for almost 2 years. Every time I looked at it I thought that it was finished, but because it was so dark I always wanted to ‘change’ it somehow. But I never did. Only now am I publishing it because it really is finished. That was my conclusion looking at it again today. I love this one.
Floor Plan A (Acrylic on Wood panel, 53.5cm x 53.5cm, Dirk Marwig 2013)
The perfect distribution of load bearing walls in a square floor plan. Light passes from all 4 ‘outside’ walls offering the perfect relation or balance of ‘private’ and ‘open’ space. ‘Floor Plan A’ is based entirely on the “Golden Section”,that’s why it works.
Antonio Lopez on Acid Landscape (Oil,guache + glue on paper on plywood, 53.5cm x 32.8cm, Dirk Marwig 2013)
God watches silently as the Boogeyman takes you. (Oil on Japan-paper, 48cm x 32cm, Dirk Marwig 2013)
Abort the Mundane (Oil on canvas, 107cm x 172.8cm, Dirk Marwig 2013)
Today the mediocre, banal, ordinary and uninspired are glorified (just watch daytime television or these fucked up reality shows where retarded, vain “housewives” show the world just how dumb and evil they are!) This NO CULTURE/ UN-CULTURE ‘culture’ gets on my nerves. ‘Abort the Mundane’ or “TURN”(into one of them). Death to “low brow”.
TRANSMIGRATION (Oil on wood panel,91.5cm x 122cm,Dirk Marwig 2013)
Transmigration( the migration of the soul). Can you see the head of the ‘ghost’ in the upper middle part of the painting?
Vertigo (Oil on wood panel and recycled Fir-wood built into a frame, 52.5cm x 60,2cm, Dirk Marwig 2013)
This painting features the “Golden Rectangle”. It’s the one that has the ‘red outline’ in the centre. The idea for this painting/object came to me after visiting some people who had paintings up on the wall which were sort of hung ‘crooked’, but not on purpose. I wanted to make something that was “off” but at the same time “not off”.
SPEED SIMPLIFIED (Oil on wood panel, 50.5cm x 45.8cm, Dirk Marwig 2012)
Golden Section
(Oil on recycled paper mounted on plywood with coloured string, 44.5cm x 72cm, Dirk Marwig 2013)
SENSUAL (Oil on wood panel, 122cm x 91.5cm, Dirk Marwig 2011)
Just perfect circles and more perfect circles, small and large overlapping each other.
Philistine World View (Oil on canvas,76cm x 61cm, Dirk Marwig 2007)
MICROPHYSICS (Oil on wood panel,122cm x 91.5cm, Dirk Marwig 2011)
DIRK MARWIG ‘UNTITLED’ (Oil on paper,dimesions unknown,Dirk Marwig 1996,Madrid)
Seelen Flug (Oil and ink on hand-made paper,35.5cm x 25.5cm,Dirk Marwig 1991,Madrid,Spain)
Fantastic Voyage (Oil and ink on cloth on wood panel, 28cm x 58cm, Dirk Marwig 2011)
Unfinished (Oil on canvas,183cm x 244cm, Dirk Marwig 2013)
“It’s ‘finished’-(the painting is just called ‘Unfinished’)
12 Tone Scream (Oil on wood panel,122cm x 91.5cm,Dirk Marwig 2013)
This painting is inspired by the music of Alban Berg’s “Lulu”, in particular “The Lulu Suite”. Here is a YouTube video link so you can get an idea of what I’m trying to convey:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=RD2iJyDnDSgaM&v=2iJyDnDSgaM It gives me “goose-bumps” again and again!
TV (Oil on canvas,140cm x 208.7cm,Dirk Marwig 2013)
MEMORY(MADRID) (Ink,pencil+oil on paper,45cm x 28.5cm,Dirk Marwig 2011)
Genie
(Oil on Japan-Paper,31.6cm x 23.7cm,Dirk Marwig 2012)
ZOMB 8 Resurrection
(Oil+oil crayon on Japan-paper,59cm x 83.5cm,Dirk Marwig 1995)
Touché/Matchpoint (Oil on canvas, 50.7cm x 60.8cm, Dirk Marwig 2012)
The story of most of my life: “(+ vs -) = (0)= Finding ‘that’ perfect balance in all aspects of ‘being’ and communicating this shamelessly with poetry.
HERE AND THERE (Oil on Japan paper on plywood, 30.5cm x 45.8cm, Dirk Marwig 2012)
BIRTH-Dirk Marwig
(Oil on wood panel,183cm x 122cm,Dirk Marwig 2012)
BIG PAINTING-DETAIL
(Oil on canvas-detail of “Big Painting”,Dirk Marwig 1992)
FASTER THAN THE EYE
Evolution of “FASTER THAN THE EYE” in the sequence of it’s creation.
Klang Ton (Oil on wood panel, 62.8cm x 48.7cm, Dirk Marwig 2012)
Raum Konzept (Oil on old cotton T-shirt mounted on plywood, 39.7cm x 110.8cm, Dirk Marwig 2012)
I used this old T-shirt as a rag to clean my brushes… After a year or so I cut it up and mounted it on a piece of plywood. Then I painted it little by little. A very organic procedure.
ZEIT BILD
(Oil+ink on treated paper on plywood board,-detail-Dirk Marwig1995)
Beauty of Deconstruction (Oil on canvas, 76cm x 61cm, Dirk Marwig 2007)
Untitled 1993 (Oil on beat-up plywood board,122cm x 84cm, Dirk Marwig 1993 Madrid,Spain)
I did a whole series of paintings on ‘street found’ plywood boards of all sizes and shapes the likes of which I did not modify, merely sanding them and cleaning them up a bit. I did this because I was too poor to buy proper “supports”. This is the only photo that I still have of this series(thanks to the owner of the piece in Germany).
FASTER THAN THE EYE
(Oil on wood panel,61.5cm x 46.5cm,Dirk Marwig 2012)
Aug 2012
RE-SORT
(Oil and ink on Japan-paper on wood panel,76.2cm x 60.8cm,2012)
DIMAR KWIRG
(Oil,ink and pencil on Japan-paper,35.9cm x 30.6cm,Dirk Marwig 2012)
PRIMI OPTRIX
(Oil on Japan-paper on plywood,53.5cm x 32.5cm,Dirk Marwig 2012)
ZWISCHENWELT DETAIL
(Oil on canvas,Zwischenwelt-detail,Dirk Marwig 1993)
CONDENSED (Oil on wood panel,122cm x 91.5cm, Dirk Marwig 2011)
ANALOG 2007
(Oil on canvas,39cm x 50cm,Vancouver 2007)
DUMB GAME 2007
(Oil and pencil on paper,24cm x 31cm,Vancouver 2007)
TRANSPARENT MECHANISM (Oil on 3 primed burlap rice sacks, 65.6cm x 64.3cm, Dirk Marwig 2008)
ZWISCHENWELT DETAIL
(Dirk Marwig,detail: ‘Zwischenwelt’,oil on canvas,1993)
Game of Logic (Oil on canvas, 60cm x 91cm, Dirk Marwig 2007)
SUPERSTRUCTURE (Oil and pigment ink on canvas, 51cm x 61cm, Dirk Marwig 2010)
“When I gaze at this, I become part of it”
SAFE ZONE (Oil on canvas, 35.5cm x 25.7cm, Dirk Marwig 2008)
SILLY GAME
(Oil on canvas,30cm x 61cm,Vancouver 2011)
DIRK MARWIG:ZEIT BILD
(Oil+ink on treated paper on plywood board,70cm x 50cm,Madrid 1995)
THE BIG PAINTING (Oil on canvas, 200cm x 155cm, Dirk Marwig 1992)
“I used this painting as a “Map”,”Blueprint” or “Study” for all the Objects I constructed in the next 7 years after 1992. It took me 6 months to paint, 8-10 hours a day. I also was pretty poor at the time, painting it in the small laundry room of the apartment I had with my newlywed wife. Unfortunately, I still do not have a ‘good’ photo of this painting.
DIRK MARWIG:ZWISCHENWELT
(Oil on canvas,100cm x 81cm,Madrid 1993)
INSIDE (Oil on folded paper, 25.3cm x 32.3cm, Dirk Marwig 2008)
Sometimes the inside is padded, sometimes it’s hard or harsh. Perception of the moment.
RESERVE 7-11 (Oil on wood panel, 91.5cm x 122cm, Dirk Marwig 2011)
Mystery.
Million Cigarettes (Oil on wood panel, 27cm x 62.5cm, Dirk Marwig 2011)
Applied colour theory makes the eye move around and around, forever. SO SIMPLE.
Nine (Oil on canvas, 76cm x 61cm, Dirk Marwig 2008)
Feel good painting.
DIRK MARWIG:CONDENSED-Detail- (Oil on wood panel,122cm x 91.5cm,Dirk Marwig 2011)
CONDENSED-Detail- (Oil on wood panel,122cm x 91.5cm,Dirk Marwig 2011)
UNTITLED-A-2007
(Oil on canvas,76cm x 61cm,Vancouver 2007)
Cables Crossed (Oil on hardwood panel, 20.2cm x 40.6cm, Dirk Marwig 2011)
ARQUITECTURA PRIMITIVA
(Oil and ink on old plywood door,120.7cm x 57.5cm,Vancouver 2011)
Swimming Against (Oil on cotton mounted on plywood, 26.3cm x 40.5cm, Dirk Marwig 2011)
The story of my life.
Komposition Null (Oil and archival ink on wood panel, 76cm x 34cm, Dirk Marwig 2010)
Planet X -Nibiru- (Oil on my old cut up ‘work’ T-shirt mounted on plywood, 45.5cm x 108.5cm, Dirk Marwig 2011)
This painting just “happened”. Genetic memory? I believe so. WHY IS INFORMATION KEPT FROM THE PEOPLE?
MESSAGE
(Oil on wood/canvas,39cm x 61cm,Vancouver 2007)
Flat and Off #2 (Oil on canvas mounted on plywood, 38cm x 48.5cm, Dirk Marwig 2008)
*This was also an experiment from 2008: I never liked medieval art- it was usually flat and basically all elements in the paintings depicting religious or feudal scenes were “off”… but somehow there was ‘something’ that did touch me in a way that I did not understand. With this little experiment I incorporated of what I found to be ‘charming’ in medieval art (the lack of perspective’, the compartmentalization, the ultramarine blue) the ‘theme’, of course, is updated. When I finish what I’m working on now I intend to build an elaborate gilded frame to finally finish this painting.
Still Life (Oil on cotton cloth mounted on plywood, 42.5cm x 54cm, Dirk Marwig 2010)
It’s a still life. You just have to squint your eyes!
16 times 17days
(Oil on canvas,61cm x 76cm,Vancouver 2006)
Clean State (Oil on canvas, 76cm x 61cm, Dirk Marwig 2008)
7 CIRCLES
(Oil on canvas,61cm x 61cm,Vancouver 2007)
THE RED-ORANGE CARPET (Oil on wood panel, 76cm x 114cm, Dirk Marwig 2011)
(Oil on wood panel, 76cm x 114cm, Dirk Marwig 2011)
8 Outside (Oil on canvas, 122cm x 91.5cm, Dirk Marwig 2011)
This was line/colour experiment: Eight focal points outside the canvas coming from all 4 sides(2 focal points on each side). All the coloured lines that come from(or go to) the 8 focal points are ‘mirrored’ through the centre again then painted (again) in the complementary colours.
The 4 colours(blue,red,green and yellow) colours are pure(not mixed)just painted in very thin layers on top of each other. The white line just highlights the shape created through multiple repetition.