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Untitled. May 2014 -front view- (Old foam rubber mattress, glue, gesso,oil and plywood stand painted white, 170cm x 83cm x 43cm, Dirk Marwig 2014)

Jethro AA

The Super Donut. Super Kitsch!

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The Dance of Captivity ( 6 wooden coat hangers cut through the centre then reassembled, gold leaf and glue, 50cm x 94cm, Dirk Marwig 2014)

The Dance of Captivity

Three dancing girls or ballerinas that also look like a piece of barbed wire. This ‘Dance of Captivity’ can be used as a metaphor for many situations in life. It could also be a good logo for the North Korean

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A Landscape for the Pyromaniac (Oil on plywood, 23cm x 59.3cm, Dirk Marwig 2014)

A Landscape for the Pyromaniac A

My mother always told me when I was young : “Why don’t you just paint landscapes? People would buy them and you could make lots of money.” -Well here’s a landscape for you! This painting shows the view of the

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Alles ist Gut -old work, I had just turned 21 when I painted this- (Oil on canvas, 30cm x 40cm, Dirk Marwig 1981)

Alles ist Gut

“I found this at my mothers house when I travelled to Germany in 2013. I had just turned 21 when I painted it. This little painting shows my extreme frustration in dealing with this world, the same frustration I still

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Design for Silk Leggings (Oil on driftwood, 122cm x 19.5cm x 8.5cm, Dirk Marwig 2007)

Silk Legging Design

“This was one of the first things I made when I moved to Vancouver,B.C. in 2007. I painted this color-combo on a piece of driftwood which I found on the beach.”

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Cognitive Dissonance (Bic pen on primed woodpanel, 67.5cm x 109cm, Dirk Marwig 2014)

Cognitive Dissonance

And yet another drawing showing my “Cognitive Dissonance”. I always try to confront this “problem” head on, taking advantage of these moments, using them constructively.

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Function Unknown Front, looking from an elevated position (Plywood construction painted white with maple base, 79cm x 40cm x 30cm, Dirk Marwig 2014)

Function Unknown
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Function Unknown semi-side right (Plywood construction painted white with maple base, 79cm x 40cm x 30cm, Dirk Marwig 2014)

Function Unknown Semi Side A

Try to copy this one, pseudo intellectual low-brow Riff Raff! (you know who YOU are!)… You can’t do this one! This message is for the person(s) copying a lot of my work.

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Function Unknown (Plywood construction painted white with maple base, 79cm x 40cm x 30cm, Dirk Marwig 2014)

Function Unknown Semi Side B

This object is dedicated to all the artifacts produced by intelligent human-like lifeforms on this planet dating back for more than 2 Billion Years. Yes 2 Billion Years! Our evolutionary timeline is very “Filtered” and therefore a faulty one. Archeological

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Frau Institut Direktor with Hubby aka Schraege Figuren -full front view- (Cardboard construction with plywood backing and glue, 47.5cm x 50.5cm x 16cm, Dirk Marwig 2014)

Frau Institut Direktor with Hubby (front view)

The German title “Schraege Figuren” which in English translates to “Weird/Sketchy Figures” makes me smile… like lurking people in a dark ally, up to no good!

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