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Flop World (Archival inks on paper, 22.9cm x 30.5cm, Dirk Marwig 2016)

Flop World

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

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Exercise in Form and Perception (Freestanding and balanced plywood construction, 62cm x 52cm x 28cm, Dirk Marwig 2016)

Exercise in Form and Perception A

I like to experiment with the ‘odd’ shape, angle or form.

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Exercise in Form and Perception _12 angles_ (Freestanding and balanced plywood construction, 62cm x 52cm x 28cm, Dirk Marwig 2016)

Exercise in Form and Perception

This shows 12 angles of the object, turning it on the axis. This object stands on any solid and level surface.

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‘Untitled 2016’ close-up (Plywood construction with oil and nylon string, 101cm x 101cm x 5,5cm, Dirk Marwig 2016)

Untitled Close-up
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Untitled-wall Object- 2016 (Plywood construction with oil and nylon string, 101cm x 101cm x 5,5cm, Dirk Marwig 2016)

Untitled 2016 copy

This is the result of the repetition of the same ‘free-form’ 26 times over. The 1st sequence of 13 being the full colour spectrum connected to the 2nd sequence of ‘the white to medium grey’ spectrum (also 13). After this

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Folded (Oil on plywood, 58cm x 70cm, Dirk Marwig 2016)

Folded

-This Painting/Object is about finding beauty and coolness in something totally mundane and insignificant: the random little piece of math paper, “folded” and “discarded” (enlarged 700% and painted on a flat, thin and shaped plywood board).

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Old but cool work from 1995! ‘Untitled’ 1995 (Oil chalk and watercolour on thick paper, 49.5cm x 67.5cm, Dirk Marwig 1995)

PAPER SCULPTURE SHOW INVITATION - Version 2 copy

An example from 1995 of how my mind 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

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Reach You With My Mind (Oil on plywood-irregular pentagon shape, 45.5cm x 71.8cm, Dirk Marwig 2016)

Reach You With My Mind A

This painting looks like as if it has been photographed close-up style with a ‘wide angle macro’ lens. But it’s not. This is what the painting actually looks like when photographed from a straight-on position. The irregular pentagon shape is

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Mediterranean Chic -different angle- (Shaped plywood object with oil, 41cm x 80cm x 25.5cm, Dirk Marwig 2016)

Mediterranean Chic  2nd angle

This was fun to photograph. It has so many cool angles because of the ‘shape’ and ‘bend’ given to the plywood. On top of that the distorted lines with 2 external “flight points” which correspond to the ‘essence’ or flow

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Mediterranean Chic (Shaped plywood object with oil, 41cm x 80cm x 25.5cm, Dirk Marwig 2016)

Mediterranean Chic
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