FIGHTING WITH INSTRUMENT
(Plywood construction,180cm x 100cm x 85cm, Dirk Marwig 1996)
*The construction of this object from 1996 is so simple: 4 cut and shaped pieces of 12mm plywood connected where the slots are. It was easy to take apart and to set up, to transport and to store. I always put it up by myself and I looked like the object itself (or as if I was playing “Twister”) I made two of this object. I have no idea who has them. Lucky them. The photos are scanned from small photos which I found in a box a while ago.
Two primitive “machos” showing what they’ve got (to each other!). This male behaviour pattern cracks me up.
* When I finish a piece like this one I feel fortunate.
It unlocks something special(in myself, at least). What you see is full of contradictions that coexist harmoniously, creating a level that is foreign and known to us simultaneously. The cycle of Contradiction, harmony, and Juxtaposition is working its magic. Beyond words, it is private and intimate.
4 X the Fibonacci sequence of 1,1,2,3,5,8,13 and 21. The interesting beauty of math. The ‘divine angle’ 137.5º was used as reference to cut all the pieces.