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When the Politician Speaks (Oil on burlap on plywood, 21.3cm x 68.8cm, Dirk Marwig 2014)

When the Politician Speaks new

*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.

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The Constructivist-study- (Oil on hardened cardboard on plywood, 30.5cm x 43cm, Dirk Marwig 2014)

The Constructivist

“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

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‘Lines’ Painting No.3 (Oil on burlap, 140cm x 100cm, Dirk Marwig 1996) -older work-

Lines Painting#3 1996

“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.”

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Mind Cleaner (Oil on canvas, 122cm x 244cm, Dirk Marwig 2008)

Mind Cleaner

“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

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Cartography, Organic, Random Close-up lower bottom left (Dirk Marwig 2013)

Cartography Close-up 2

“This is a close up of the lower left bottom of the painting.”

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Cartography, Organic, Random Close-up mid section (Dirk Marwig 2013)

Cartography Close- up 1

“This is a close-up of the mid-section of the painting “Cartography,Organic,Random”- total chaos.”

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Cartography, Organic, Random (Oil on plywood, 94.5cm x 75.7cm, Dirk Marwig 2013)

Cartography,Organic,Random

“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

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Magic Square (Oil on wood panel, 60cm x 60cm, Dirk Marwig 2013)

Magic Square

“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

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Summer Camp (Oil on Wood Panel, 56.7cm x 91.8cm, Dirk Marwig 2013)

Summer Camp

-As you can probably tell: I used the same 8 colours here as in the painting “Magic Square”!

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High on the Mountain Pass (Oil on paper cut up into strips then glued onto plywood -collage- , 25cm x 40.6cm, Dirk Marwig 2013)

High on the Mountain Pass
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