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Composition for the Hard of Hearing (Oil on wood panel, 89cm x 75cm, Dirk Marwig 2016)

Composition for the Hard of Hearing
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ORIWAKO (Oil on wood panel, 91.5cm x 61cm, Dirk Marwig 2016)

ORIWAKO

This painting was in my studio for more than a year and yesterday I finished it adding the last few essentials it needed. While I was working on it the name “Oriwako” kept going through my mind. I later looked

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Dirk Marwig in 1981. Two photos showing myself. The 1st one with a small painting and the 2nd one in front of a self painted “backdrop”.

Dirk Marwig  1981
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Untitled Drawing, May 2016 (Archival ink on thick paper, 55.3cm x 68.8cm, Dirk Marwig 2016)

Untitled May 2016 A

My 2nd drawing during my knee recovery. This one is a birthday present for Margareta!

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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-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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Concept of “FOLDED” and showing the “Flatness” of “FOLDED” on my work patio. Dirk Marwig 2016

Flatness

The concept of “FOLDED” was to show the “Glorification of the complete mundane”. The 3D effect is just an ‘effect’ used as a ‘vehicle’ to convey the concept but not as being the concept of the piece in itself. That

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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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