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FLAG (Oil and ink on Japan-paper, 31.5cm x 64cm, Dirk Marwig 2010)

* This painting/drawing is a 3D experiment – Stare only at the ‘red’ line area and suddenly the whole painting/drawing turns into a ‘space’, ‘things’ overlap, shake and move! Subtle OP ART.

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COLOUR THEORY (study) (Oil and archival ink on ‘Japan-paper’, 32cm x 23.5cm, Dirk Marwig 2007)

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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

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Loose (Oil on ‘Japan-paper’, 32cm x 23.5cm, Dirk Marwig 2007)

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Crazy Horse (Plywood construction, 55cm x 66.5cm x 22cm, Dirk Marwig 12.12.2012 !!)

Art and the Political Statement: Crazy Horse *In my childhood my family lived close to the Crazy Horse Memorial near Rapid City,  South Dakota, U.S.A. This monument dedicated to Crazy Horse, the great Sioux Warrior impressed me as a boy,

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Vector-ian Beauty(Plywood, Rosewood and Zebrawood construction 47cm x 37.8cm x 20.2cm, Dirk Marwig 2012)

Art, Architecture and Authenticity. The Result of Experimentation: All 4 plywood pieces have exactly the same length.They are just bent in 4 different ways. Vector-ian Beauty is what happend. Simplicity. Playing around has its reward. Curiosity and Intuition mixed with Math.

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RANDOM EROSION Winter (Plywood, resin and oil, 29cm x 36.3cm x 14cm, Dirk Marwig 2012)

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DYSFUNCTIONAL (Plywood object, 35.5cm x 59.5cm x 15.3cm, Dirk Marwig 2008)

-I’m pretty practical and to my mind everything can have a purpose and could be put to “use”. With this object I simply made the choice to ‘keep it dysfunctional’! ‘To keep it open’, as they say. Simple as that.

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KOMPUTER (Plywood construction with Japan-paper and oil, 31cm x 40cm x 31cm, Dirk Marwig 2011)

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PLASTIC FLORIDA (-wall object-Lacquered and coloured ‘Japan-paper’ on plexi-glass, 90cm x 65cm x 6cm, Dirk Marwig, Madrid 1998)

Everything about Florida, Miami, for example(if you have ever been there)-for me anyway- is the height of ‘plastic’ culture.

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