Eigentor/own goal (Pencil on canvas mounted on plywood, 33.8cm x 31.2cm, Dirk Marwig, 2024)
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MONKEY REIGN (Colored pencil and archival ink on Japan paper, 24.2cm x 27.3cm, Dirk Marwig 2024)
History repeats itself. Again, we have to deal with the control obsession of criminal, power-hungry infantile idiots. We are back to the reign of evil monkeys. My art has always been centered on voicing my perceptions in a given period with an entertaining visual twist and a critical flavor that respects the higher positive intentions of mankind’s plight. Therefore I will never give up hope for a future where all can thrive and enjoy life during their limited stay on this plane.
TheSexExitPhiloso(p)hy (Ink and pencil on canvas, 37.3cm x 30.3cm, Dirk Marwig 2024)
QUATSCHER (Pencil and ink on Japan paper mounted on plywood, 47.3cm x 23.8cm, Dirk Marwig 2023)
Musk Mind Fart (Archival ink on Japan paper, 24cm x 32cm, Dirk Marwig 2022)
I Take It Back(Coloured Pencil on thick drawing paper, 61cm x 45.7cm, Dirk Marwig 2021)
Again… Express yourself! If I can Do it, Everyone can. Requirement: You Must have ‘Something’ to Communicate! Otherwise… Do Nothing. This drawing speaks to everyone: like Music, “Directly with Force and Passion”. …Am I right? ? ?…
1994 ‘Untitled’ (Archival ink, watercolour and oil on drawing paper, dim. unknown, Dirk Marwig 1994)
1994 Untitled drawing/painting (Archival ink, watercolour and oil on paper, dim. unknown, Dirk Marwig 1994)
(recently received photo)
Anyone who has a painting, drawing or object of mine please send me a good photo of it. I’m still missing many great pieces!
CHINADA (Permanent marker on thick drawing paper, Dirk Marwig 2019)
Margareta Reeve (my ‘everything’) casually said: Canada + China = “CHINADA”. She said it first, but I provoked it! So…
CHINADA (Permanent marker on thick drawing paper, Dirk Marwig 2019)
-‘Expansionary Politics’at it’s best: China and Canada turn into CHINADA. Evolution. No Borders. No War. Just that “new” feeling. Learn, apply and deal with it, in the sense that it is good for everyone because change is part of life. “E”
Gletscherzeichnung 1994 Dirk Marwig from the of the Collection Japan Art Gallery in Frankfurt, Germany
I recently found this in my files: A ‘collectors certificate’ from Mr. Friedrich Mueller of the “Japan Art Gallery” in Frankfurt, Germany featuring my “Gletscherzeichnung” (Glacier Drawing) from 1994. It shows the drawing, the signature, dates and all other specifications. This is how it’s properly done.
*It is also the only photo of this piece!
The Unstable House (Oil and black hard chalk on thick drawing paper, 51cm x 34cm, Dirk Marwig 1993)
I found this photo of “Das Unstabile Haus”(The Unstable House) from 1993 in an envelope today(August 17th 2018). Another forgotten drawing. To date it is in the collection of Klaus Fischer in Frankfurt, Germany.
Study for a new object (Bic-pen on thick drawing paper, 57cm x 76.2cm, Dirk Marwig 2016)
I got back from Spain and Germany 8 days ago(my first holiday in 3 years). Then while I watched the “presidential debate” I began to jot down all the nonsense being offered to the audience with a bic-pen on a large piece of paper. This is the result.
Flop World (Archival inks on paper, 22.9cm x 30.5cm, Dirk Marwig 2016)
Confined to the bed and sofa after a terrible “quadriceps tendon rupture” and the following surgery 2 weeks ago (I slipped and fell awkwardly while trying to collect a watering hose on the granite rock in my backyard- in a way funny!), the only thing I can do now is draw. All other projects have come to a halt. Bummer.
Mind-Shift -Don’t bug me- (Standing plywood construction with gesso and Bic-pen, 35cm x 23.5cm x 10.5cm, Dirk Marwig 2014)
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.
Genetic Memory of a Violent Death (Archival ink and oil on thick drawing paper, 35.5cm x 27.9cm, Dirk Marwig 2014)
“Everyone has “Genetic Memory” passed on to them by their ancestors. We can embrace or ignore this fact. This ‘automatic drawing’ depicts one of my frightening genetic memories, a nightmarish vision I frequently have. I have to tell myself: “Don’t think about this-Try to ignore it!” -This is a recurring theme in my work.”
‘Untitled’ 1995 (Oil chalk and watercolour on thick paper, 49.5cm x 67.5cm, Dirk Marwig 1995)
An example from 1995 of how my mind loves and processes geometry. I see this image of one of my earlier works and wonder how I managed this. This one seems so simple but if you try to reconstruct it exactly the way it appears, the mind starts to boil! The result transcends simple geometry. The photo was taken from the invitation of the 1996 show “Dirk Marwig, Papier Skulptur” at the Nikolaus Fischer Gallery in Frankfurt, Germany.
THE GIFT-ALICANTE- (Pigment ink on ‘Japan-paper’, 30cm x 40cm, Dirk Marwig 2008)
I was on holiday at easter time in Alicante (Spain) when I drew this. It was the “Semana Santa” with the ‘big procession’. All these people in the streets following or observing a statue of “Christ” which was carried from A to B. Really a cool sight! Mesmerizing. … but really I thought that most of the people who attended just wanted to party! Fiesta!
Back to Square One (Oil and archival ink on Japan paper, 28cm x 22cm, Dirk Marwig 2009)
This is what happens if you just let things happen without control: This little drawing/painting was in my studio for a very long time- I stepped on it, wrinkled it up and threw it away into the garbage bin, took it out of the garbage again, flattened it out and put it into the “to do” folder. When I had nothing to do one day I ironed it repaired the rip and applied a new layer of oil and voila :it worked! Basically it’s the same painting as before but with that special ingredient: the ‘magic’ of time, the ‘wear and tear’!
TO HELL AND BACK (Colored inks on acid free tape on paper,30cm x 22cm, Dirk Marwig 2006)
Whenever I feel like a loser(which is often), I look at my drawing from 2006 and find a little bit of hope. It makes me feel like everything is possible if I put my mind to it. Focus… Dream… and Lose Yourself in that Dream… and magic happens and everything is suddenly alright again.