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Statement: Dirk Marwig May 13th 2013

My work originates in the subconscious; an idea for a piece comes to me in a fraction of a second. I then browse through my studio looking for a way to express this idea with all the possible means (materials)

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Dirk Marwig “The Incipient Dimension” by Antonio Gregori Arnaiz (English Translation from Spanish)

Dirk Marwig Article 1 translation
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DIRK MARWIG:’La Dimension Incipiente’ An article by Antonio Gregori Arnaiz for OTRBurgos Magazine(Spain) May 10th 2013

La dimensión incipiente-1
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Understatement (Oil on canvas,107cm x 172.8cm, Dirk Marwig 2013)

Understatement

This is the new painting “Understatement” in my studio on May 8th 2013. I think it might be finished. It’s a little different from my other work because of the ‘words’. It says: “ABORT THE MUNDANE”,which is, of course, an

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TRANSMIGRATION (Oil on wood panel,91.5cm x 122cm,Dirk Marwig 2013)

Transmigration

Transmigration( the migration of the soul). Can you see the head of the ‘ghost’ in the upper middle part of the painting?

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Above the Mundane (Hemlock wood, Oil + Plexi-Glass, 79cm x 30.5cm x 30cm, Dirk Marwig 2013)

Above the Mundane new

This object is made from an old weathered hemlock log, the end of which I painted red. After a few years I cut 3 inches off the end of this very old log and then cut out 13 ‘year rings’

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La Gloriosa or “Glorious,Decaying Empire” (Douglas Fir, wood glue, wood oil, 227.5cm x 28cm x 18cm, Dirk Marwig 2013)

La Gloriosa_front view

(full frontal view) *This was a big slice of Douglas Fir which first I turned into a perfect rectangular “block”. The newly created “block” had the “Golden Rectangle” shape or the ‘divine proportions/dimensions’. Then I wildly started to cut the

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La Gloriosa (Douglas Fir,wood glue, 227.5cm x 28cm x 18cm, Dirk Marwig 2013)

La Gloriosa_semi side

This was a block of Douglas fir that i cut up. The block had the “Golden Rectangle” dimension. This pic shows the semi-side view and was photographed on my work patio.

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Very Deep (–photographed on patio with sunlight–Oak,plywood,enamel+resin,42.7cm x 68.7cm x 19.7cm,Dirk Marwig 2013)

Very Deep 2

The rectangle is a “Golden Rectangle”,i.e.:it has ‘perfect dimensions’

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Very Deep Wall Object (Oak,plywood,enamel+resin,42.7cm x 68.7cm x 19.7cm,Dirk Marwig 2013)

Very Deep
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