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Cartography, Organic, Random (Oil on plywood, 94.5cm x 75.7cm, Dirk Marwig 2013)

“I have always loved maps. Without thinking i started scratching thousands of lines all over the plywood board- added some colour and at the end of the day some kind of map appeared. Then the real work began: organizing the

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Dirk Marwig 2008-2009 Art Video. Music by Tektight.

Never shown before interesting older Video of my work(some of which no longer exist-i overpainted them!) that i stumbled upon in my discarded files. This was the 2nd ‘Low Tech animation’ Video i did in 2009. This one also shows

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All=1 (five angles showing the object All = 1 (3 old branches ‘wood’ cut up, oil + glue, 40.5cm x 60cm x 60cm, Dirk Marwig 2013) “I cut up 3 old branches that I always wanted to use, connecting always 8 wood slices with 8 others ,each set of 8 being a little larger or smaller in size than the other.”

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All = 1 -top view- (3 old branches ‘wood’ cut up, oil + glue, 40.5cm x 60cm x 60cm, Dirk Marwig 2013)

“This is what it looks like from the top!”

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All = 1 (3 old branches ‘wood’ cut up, oil + glue, 40.5cm x 60cm x 60cm, Dirk Marwig 2013)

“I cut up 3 old branches that I always wanted to use – this was the result – i almost went crazy.”

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Magic Square (Oil on wood panel, 60cm x 60cm, Dirk Marwig 2013)

“I used 8 colours in this painting -you can see them diagonally from the top left going down to the bottom right- then I made a grid of 64 squares and only using these 8 colours,mixing them with each other

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Gravitational Pull (Oil and coloured pencil on prepared paper, 22.3cm x 27.5cm, Dirk Marwig 2007)

This little drawing is a gift to my friend Antonio Gregori Arnaiz of Burgos, Spain.

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For Love (Unfinished draft – oil + gesso on wood panel, 94.5cm x 76.2cm, Dirk Marwig 2013)

This pic was taken in my studio before going to Germany and Spain (July 18 2013). The painting still has to be painted out in oil when i come back in August. The painting consists of 2 red lines which

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Summer Camp (Oil on Wood Panel, 56.7cm x 91.8cm, Dirk Marwig 2013)

-As you can probably tell: I used the same 8 colours here as in the painting “Magic Square”!

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High on the Mountain Pass (Oil on paper cut up into strips then glued onto plywood -collage- , 25cm x 40.6cm, Dirk Marwig 2013)

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