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“Dilettante” side views Dirk Marwig blog March 22nd 2017

Dilettante -side view

Can’t you just picture the Dilettante at the show opening with hands in his/her pocket, posing and looking cool? hah! The slaves of fashion. Ignorant ego-trippers. This is the side view:

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Dirk Marwig: 3 fun objects (for the intelligent) from 2012

3 objects from 2012

3 objects (for the intelligent) from 2012 where the subconscious led the way. Fun stuff. 1) Black High Heel Fetish(Model) (Nylon cable tie construction, 24cm x 24cm x 22cm, Dirk Marwig 2012) 2) NEVERFLAT ESTRELLA (My old basketball flattened out

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VOYEUR (Construction made from a wooden wire spool, 80cm x 111.5cm x 3cm, Dirk Marwig 2017)

VOYEUR_HDR

*Six simple cuts were applied to the plywood spool (2 discs) to make the components which then were arranged to construct “VOYEUR”. An almost ‘readymade’. It makes me smile because the distilled result is so multi-layered and congruent, something you

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GoGo detail close-up Dirk Marwig 2017

Journey-detail

A detail of “Journey”(mid section)

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GoGo (Maple branch cut into 107 slices then glued together with titanium white oil wash, 139cm x 33cm x 33cm, Dirk Marwig 2017)

Journey

The simplest ideas always work. In this case taking a dried branch and cutting it at an angle into many slices then glueing it back together again with(and ‘in’) perfect balance. I was really surprised with the result but during

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AMIGO (Old outdoor extension cable with cable ties, 41cm x 31cm x 30.3cm, Dirk Marwig 2017)

AMIGO 3 Angles

My little unemployed and disconnected Amigo standing there all alone. Aww! From left to right: Waiting, Eager to please,then Resignation!

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‘Untitled 2016’ close-up (Plywood construction with oil and nylon string, 101cm x 101cm x 5,5cm, Dirk Marwig 2016)

Untitled Close-up
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Mediterranean Chic (Shaped plywood object with oil, 41cm x 80cm x 25.5cm, Dirk Marwig 2016)

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

La Gloriosa

*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 block apart ,

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Deconstructed preview of the new plywood object: “Everything is only a Trick” , Dirk Marwig 2015

Preview

Deconstructed preview of the new plywood object: “Everything is only a Trick”. I will post the photo of the finished object when I have it. *Unlike many artists of my ‘caliber’: I always do absolutely everything myself. No paid helpers,

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