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The Dance of Captivity ( 6 wooden coat hangers cut through the centre then reassembled, gold leaf and glue, 50cm x 94cm, Dirk Marwig 2014)

The Dance of Captivity

Three dancing girls or ballerinas that also look like a piece of barbed wire. This ‘Dance of Captivity’ can be used as a metaphor for many situations in life. It could also be a good logo for the North Korean

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Mind-Shift -Don’t bug me- (Standing plywood construction with gesso and Bic-pen, 35cm x 23.5cm x 10.5cm, Dirk Marwig 2014)

Mindshift

I love working with Bic pens—It’s messy, raw, basic and spontaneous. This drawing/object brings out the cool qualities of the Bic-pen which almost every person on this planet has in their house. I need to do something like this once

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Function Unknown Front, looking from an elevated position (Plywood construction painted white with maple base, 79cm x 40cm x 30cm, Dirk Marwig 2014)

Function Unknown
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Function Unknown semi-side right (Plywood construction painted white with maple base, 79cm x 40cm x 30cm, Dirk Marwig 2014)

Function Unknown Semi Side A

Try to copy this one, pseudo intellectual low-brow Riff Raff! (you know who YOU are!)… You can’t do this one! This message is for the person(s) copying a lot of my work.

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Function Unknown (Plywood construction painted white with maple base, 79cm x 40cm x 30cm, Dirk Marwig 2014)

Function Unknown Semi Side B

This object is dedicated to all the artifacts produced by intelligent human-like lifeforms on this planet dating back for more than 2 Billion Years. Yes 2 Billion Years! Our evolutionary timeline is very “Filtered” and therefore a faulty one. Archeological

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Frau Institut Direktor with Hubby aka Schraege Figuren -full front view- (Cardboard construction with plywood backing and glue, 47.5cm x 50.5cm x 16cm, Dirk Marwig 2014)

Frau Institut Direktor with Hubby (front view)

The German title “Schraege Figuren” which in English translates to “Weird/Sketchy Figures” makes me smile… like lurking people in a dark ally, up to no good!

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Frau Institut Direktor with Hubby aka Schraege Figuren -semi side view- (Cardboard construction with plywood backing and glue, 47.5cm x 50.5cm x 16cm, Dirk Marwig 2014)

Frau Institut Direktor with Hubby(semi side view)
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Rearview No.2 (Plexi-Glass and plywood mounted on maplewood, 45cm x 30.5cm x 4.2cm, Dirk Marwig 2014)

Rearview No.2

“This is the second “Rearview” object. I made the first one back in 1997 and it sold to a collector in the Frankfurt area. This object stayed in my mind and now 17 years later I decided to do a

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FLOW LIGHT OBJECT with Stand (Plexi-Glass construction, Dirk Marwig 1997)

Flow Light Object w. Stand

“This is how the ‘Flow Light Object’ originally was presented in 1997. This pic was taken in my home(you can see the”Big Painting” and a few other furniture pieces as well).It was shown at an art expo in Valencia, Spain

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TWISTER in my Studio Madrid, 1996 (Plywood object/construction, 298cm x 41cm x 41cm, Dirk Marwig 1996)

Studio 1996 Madrid_'Twister'

“I just found this photo. It’s of the object “Twister” photographed in my Madrid studio in 1996. It was still unfinished here in this pic -I later rubbed red chalk onto every 2nd plywood disc to give it more of

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