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

“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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Dirk Marwig 2001 (This photo was taken at my 2001 show at the Nikolaus Fischer Gallery in Frankfurt,Germany)

“This photo was taken at my 2001 show at the Nikolaus Fischer Gallery in Frankfurt,Germany. For this show i rented a huge moving van in Madrid and transported my whole apartment to the Frankfurt gallery: I turned the gallery space

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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

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FLOW LIGHT OBJECT with Stand (Plexi-Glass construction, Dirk Marwig 1997)

“This is how the ‘Flow Light Object’ originally was presented in 1997. This pic was taken in my home(you can see the”Big Painting” and a few other furniture pieces as well).It was shown at an art expo in Valencia, Spain

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Thoughts I had during the creation of “12 Tone Scream”- Dirk Marwig 2014

As you probably can imagine “painting”(or any work of art) IS it’s very own language. Words are not able to explain the total complexity of a “work of art”. As in a great composition of music there are just too

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This is what i used to look like in New york when i was 25 years old!- Dirk Marwig

“This is what i used to look like in New york when i was 25 years old! Getting old is a bitch,right? This summer my mother(Margot Marwig) gave me a folder with pics that i used to send her, basically

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Introduction to an interview with Dirk Marwig By Ulysses Belz (Madrid, Spain, June 1999) -in German-

DIRK MARWIG “Was der Mensch mit den Haenden bearbeitet, sieht am Ende immer organisch aus.” Ein Gespraech mit Ulysses Belz, Madrid, 28. Juni 1999. Dirk Marwig (Bochum 1960) hat seinen Objektegarten zur Zeit in die Ausstellungsraeume des Goethe-Instituts Madrid verlegt.

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TWISTER in my Studio Madrid, 1996 (Plywood object/construction, 298cm x 41cm x 41cm, Dirk Marwig 1996)

“I just found this photo. It’s of the object “Twister” photographed in my Madrid studio in 1996. It was still unfinished here in this pic -I later rubbed red chalk onto every 2nd plywood disc to give it more of

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6 New Technique bracelets (Walnut-, Maple- and Cherrywood, Cable ties, Dirk Marwig 2013)

“I made ‘fashion jewelry’ to sell in my 20’s when I was living in New York City. Now I only make a few pieces here and there for the people I love. It’s also a way for me to try

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Flyer for the “Ice-Bear” or “Klapse” club in Frankfurt-October 1982 (Ink on cardboard, Dirk Marwig 1982)

-Those were the days when all publicity images was still hand drawn or simply just photographed, the days before computer images- a long time ago! This is a flyer I did when I was 22 (for the club I worked

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