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Face Off (Oil on canvas, 167.5cm x 106.5cm, Dirk Marwig 2016)

Face Off

Flat as a floor plan: the architecture of strategy mixed with uncertainty in a “one on one” Face Off.

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Thriving in Exile (Oil on plywood, 52cm x 84cm, Dirk Marwig 2016)

Thriving in Exile

…Based on the “Golden Section”, of course.

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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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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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Flop World (Archival inks on paper, 22.9cm x 30.5cm, Dirk Marwig 2016)

Flop World

Confined to the bed and sofa after a terrible “quadriceps tendon rupture” and the following surgery 2 weeks ago (I slipped and fell awkwardly while trying to collect a watering hose on the granite rock in my backyard- in a

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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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Reach You With My Mind (Oil on plywood-irregular pentagon shape, 45.5cm x 71.8cm, Dirk Marwig 2016)

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This painting looks like as if it has been photographed close-up style with a ‘wide angle macro’ lens. But it’s not. This is what the painting actually looks like when photographed from a straight-on position. The irregular pentagon shape is

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