Alles ist Gut -old work, I had just turned 21 when I painted this- (Oil on canvas, 30cm x 40cm, Dirk Marwig 1981)

Alles ist Gut

“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.”

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Design for Silk Leggings (Oil on driftwood, 122cm x 19.5cm x 8.5cm, Dirk Marwig 2007)

Silk Legging Design

“This was one of the first things I made when I moved to Vancouver,B.C. in 2007. I painted this color-combo on a piece of driftwood which I found on the beach.”

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Cognitive Dissonance (Bic pen on primed woodpanel, 67.5cm x 109cm, Dirk Marwig 2014)

Cognitive Dissonance

And yet another drawing showing my “Cognitive Dissonance”. I always try to confront this “problem” head on, taking advantage of these moments, using them constructively.

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Mind-Shift -Don’t bug me- (Standing plywood construction with gesso and Bic-pen, 35cm x 23.5cm x 10.5cm, Dirk Marwig 2014)

Mindshift

I love working with Bic pens—It’s messy, raw, basic and spontaneous. This drawing/object brings out the cool qualities of the Bic-pen which almost every person on this planet has in their house. I need to do something like this once in a while to get me back to that ‘special’ Zone.

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Function Unknown Front, looking from an elevated position (Plywood construction painted white with maple base, 79cm x 40cm x 30cm, Dirk Marwig 2014)

Function Unknown
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Function Unknown semi-side right (Plywood construction painted white with maple base, 79cm x 40cm x 30cm, Dirk Marwig 2014)

Function Unknown Semi Side A

Try to copy this one, pseudo intellectual low-brow Riff Raff! (you know who YOU are!)… You can’t do this one! This message is for the person(s) copying a lot of my work.

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Function Unknown (Plywood construction painted white with maple base, 79cm x 40cm x 30cm, Dirk Marwig 2014)

Function Unknown Semi Side B

This object is dedicated to all the artifacts produced by intelligent human-like lifeforms on this planet dating back for more than 2 Billion Years. Yes 2 Billion Years! Our evolutionary timeline is very “Filtered” and therefore a faulty one. Archeological findings providing hard evidence of “human activity”dating back 2 Billion years are simply ignored because they DO NOT SUPPORT the evolutionary theories ‘sold’ to us (the public). Check out “Forbidden Archeology”by Michael Cremo and you can decide!

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Frau Institut Direktor with Hubby aka Schraege Figuren -full front view- (Cardboard construction with plywood backing and glue, 47.5cm x 50.5cm x 16cm, Dirk Marwig 2014)

Frau Institut Direktor with Hubby (front view)

The German title “Schraege Figuren” which in English translates to “Weird/Sketchy Figures” makes me smile… like lurking people in a dark ally, up to no good!

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Frau Institut Direktor with Hubby aka Schraege Figuren -semi side view- (Cardboard construction with plywood backing and glue, 47.5cm x 50.5cm x 16cm, Dirk Marwig 2014)

Frau Institut Direktor with Hubby(semi side view)
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The Primitive Society of Today – A thought- (Dirk Marwig Feb.16th 2014)

Our society today to my mind is a primitive one, only thinking “short term” and “combustible”. Mankind today exploits and rapes nature thinking it is separate from it or ‘above’ it instead of ‘working with it’. The people in general on the planet are not healthy(mentally or physically). There is also no true communication or understanding between the peoples of countries and societies. No real spirituality exists as a guideline to follow. Only competition, bullying the weaker one for financial gain or blunt suppression exists. Mankind’s ego makes him blindly think that only “modern man” is capable of devising a highly advanced technological society. Yet “modern man” is incapable of a higher understanding of how the planet functions and how to work with it and to profit from it without ‘killing’ it. Coherent explanations(for example) of the ‘Why, ‘When’ and ‘How’ the Pyramid structures (which are found all over the planet) were built do not exist. Only lame theories that support our nearsighted, conservative and fragile ‘Status Quo’ way of thinking try to give explanations, fitting them all neatly into our historic civilization’s “Timeline”, which is in desperate need of revision. How can this be in our day of a so called ‘Advanced Society’?
Shouldn’t ‘Mankind’ be more evolved by now?
We are arrogant, know very little and we should be humble to admit this instead of ‘bragging’ about our “Advanced Technological Achievements” which are in most part put to ill use.

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