Swap 2 (Plywood and Plexiglass construction, 88cm x 55cm x 1.3cm, Dirk Marwig 2013)
The DNA of this construction/object consists of 4 ‘Golden Rectangles’, the ‘red’ one is cut in half diagonally then put back together the opposite way.
Statement: Dirk Marwig May 13th 2013
My work originates in the subconscious; an idea for a piece comes to me in a fraction of a second. I then browse through my studio looking for a way to express this idea with all the possible means (materials) I have at hand at that moment.
I distill the possibilities, calculating what is possible and what is not. If nothing appears to be ‘possible’ I begin to experiment anyway with the first probable option that first came to my mind when the ‘idea’ appeared. I try out various ways to physically ‘bring to life’ this idea. “Just Doing” is part of my process and by “Doing” the idea turns into something much bigger and something much more interesting then I ever could have imagined in the beginning.
Dirk Marwig May 13th 2013
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DIRK MARWIG:’La Dimension Incipiente’ An article by Antonio Gregori Arnaiz for OTRBurgos Magazine(Spain) May 10th 2013
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Understatement (Oil on canvas,107cm x 172.8cm, Dirk Marwig 2013)
This is the new painting “Understatement” in my studio on May 8th 2013. I think it might be finished. It’s a little different from my other work because of the ‘words’. It says: “ABORT THE MUNDANE”,which is, of course, an understatement.This pic was taken with my shitty studio camera, but it still shows the painting pretty well. The black letters “Mundane” at the same time read “Random” because nothing in this painting is “Random” -each “element” is where it has to be- this painting is also based on the ‘Golden Rectangle’.
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?
‘Above the Mundane’-‘Something for the Soul’ (View from the top)
(Hemlock wood, Oil + Plexi-Glass, 79cm x 30.5cm x 30cm, Dirk Marwig 2013)
Top View-you can also see the Plexi-Glass base and the reflection it gives.
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Above the Mundane (Hemlock wood, Oil + Plexi-Glass, 79cm x 30.5cm x 30cm, Dirk Marwig 2013)
This object is made from an old weathered hemlock log, the end of which I painted red. After a few years I cut 3 inches off the end of this very old log and then cut out 13 ‘year rings’ then reassembled it, pushing each ring out a little more than the last. Then I made the ‘Plexi-Glass’ base so the object receives it’s deserved ‘elevated’ status.
-How I made this object might be interesting but what I think is important is the reasoning behind it, the idea, the concept and what it projects(this applies to all of my work, needless to say).
La Gloriosa or “Glorious,Decaying Empire” (Douglas Fir, wood glue, wood oil, 227.5cm x 28cm x 18cm, Dirk Marwig 2013)
(full frontal view)
*This was a big slice of Douglas Fir which first I turned into a perfect rectangular “block”. The newly created “block” had the “Golden Rectangle” shape or the ‘divine proportions/dimensions’. Then I wildly started to cut the block apart , saving all the pieces and splinters and then began to glue them back together again keeping the “golden section” in mind.
It began to look like the “Empire State Building”, The “Statue of Liberty” and “Decaying Detroit” all in one and that’s how I kept it.
In a way it was an experiment to see: “if I cut up “perfection” and then reassemble it(in this case stacking it), will the result still be perfect, i.e.: interesting and “pleasing”?
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